Smartphones with 48-megapixel cameras are coming

Smartphone cameras are about to get pretty insane. 

Sony, the company that struggles selling its own smartphones but is very good at building camera sensors for other companies’ phones, has announced its new IMX586 CMOS image sensor for smartphones. 

The sensor is pretty impressive, with 48-megapixel resolution and a minute pixel size of just 0.8 μm, both world firsts according to Sony. 

When this sensor makes it into smartphones, it will enable some pretty huge daylight photos with 8,000 x 6,000 pixels, beating even Huawei’s P20 Pro and its 40-megapixel sensor. Check out the example, which compares a 12-megapixel sensor with a 48-megapixel sensor, below:  Read more…

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