Samsung wants to invest in new features for its cell phone cameras. Find out all about it!
Cell phone manufacturers are increasingly looking to invest in the features of their devices in order to attract more attention and consumers. With this in mind, manufacturer Samsung revealed on Tuesday (19) that the new trend in the cell phone industry will be objective lenses equipped with 200 MP sensors. This design will allow devices to reach a much further zoom when taking photos from a distance, avoiding loss of quality and image distortion.
According to the manufacturer, the goal is to turn the objective lens of cell phones into a second main camera, since implementing high-resolution sensors would enable new features for the optical zoom camera, with significant improvements in video recording quality and support for HDR.
Continue reading and find out more about this possible new feature from Samsung!
Trend
As observed in several cell phones available on the market, the main camera is usually equipped with a better quality sensor, but they have a lens with a short focal length, which offers a better field of view, but causes distortions in the center of the image, especially damaging photos of people.
Telephoto lenses are often equipped with lower resolution sensors. The Galaxy S23 Ultra, for example, has a telephoto lens with a sensor of only 10 MP. On the other hand, the focal lengths are longer, reducing the field of view and presenting almost imperceptible distortions in photos with people.
An image released by Samsung shows two photos of a model, where one is recorded with a lens with a focal length of 24 mm and a field of view of approximately 84°. The other photo shows the image captured by a lens with a distance of 85 mm – 3.5x optical zoom and a field of view of 29°, presenting less distortion.
The main camera on a smartphone is good for taking pictures of people against a backdrop of scenery, such as a beach or other scenic spots, but it may not be ideal for images where faces are the main subject. On the other hand, a telephoto camera is ideal for taking portrait photos.
From this point on, Samsung compares the specifications of the ISOCELL HP2 and ISOCELL HP3 image sensors, both with 200 MP, with other components in the line. The table shows that the high-resolution models have many more features to ensure better quality captures, such as 8K video recordings.
These sensors can offer digital zoom of up to 4x without loss of quality and are already available in several cell phones that focus on more affordable price segments than top-of-the-line products equipped with telephoto lenses, such as the Honor 90 Pro, equipped with the ISOCELL HP3.
Another image from Samsung also compares a photo captured by a cell phone with digital zoom from the 200 MP sensor with a sample from a telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom and an 11 MP sensor. In the image, it is possible to observe that, even without optical zoom, the high-resolution sensor can capture more details.
With this, a 3x optical zoom telephoto lens equipped with a 200MP sensor could reach new peaks of hybrid zoom without loss of quality, reaching 6x and 12x.
This leap in performance will be made possible by the advanced platforms that power the most powerful phones, with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 series, which has one of the most advanced image signal coprocessors on the market.
Launch
Samsung hasn't given a target date for the launch of the first phones with the telephoto lens powered by a 200MP sensor, but many are assuming it will arrive on the Galaxy S24, S24 Plus or S24 Ultra.
