In a nutshell: Samsung has launched a brand new 200-megapixel picture sensor that includes the business’s smallest pixels. The 200MP Isocell HP3 makes use of a 1/1.4-inch optical format, the diameter of the world that’s captured via the digital camera lens. It makes use of 0.56 micron pixels which are 12 % smaller than these employed by its predecessor, enabling a 20 % discount in digital camera module floor space.
Samsung mentioned the sensor makes use of a Super QPD auto-focusing resolution which equips the entire pixels with auto-focusing capabilities. Super QPD makes use of a single lens over 4 adjoining pixels to detect part variations horizontally and vertically for improved autofocus efficiency.
The sensor also can mix a number of pixels into one for improved low-light taking pictures. For instance, 4 pixels can change into one to provide an efficient 1.12 micron 50-megapixel sensor. Combining 16 pixels into one emulates a 12.5-megapixel sensor with 2.24 micron pixels.
An improved Smart-ISO Pro characteristic, in the meantime, helps to maximise dynamic vary to create HDR images. Samsung claims the sensor can categorical photos in over 4 trillion colours (14-bit coloration depth), which is greater than 64 instances as many as its predecessor.
On the video facet, the sensor can seize footage at 8K 30 frames per second or 4K at 120 fps.
Samsung’s new Isocell HP3 is now sampling to prospects and can enter mass manufacturing later this 12 months, which means the primary client units to ship with it may arrive in early 2023.
