The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra isn’t the first smartphone with a 108 megapixel camera (that would be the Xiaomi Mi Note 10/Mi CC9 Pro). But when Samsung’s new phone hits the streets next month, it will be the first to feature Samsung’s new ISOCELL Bright HM1 108MP image sensor.
Samsung says the new camera technology enables brighter images and includes support for real-time HDR processing, electronic image stabilization, and speedy autofucus using phase detection technology.
Like most smartphones with ultra-high-res cameras, the idea isn’t actually to let you snap photos 108 megapixel images… although you can do that if you want. Rather, the camera can combine data from multiple pixels to enhance images saved at lower resolutions.
For example, the image sensor features 108-million 0.8μm pixels, but by combining data from 9 neighboring pixels, you can save a 12 megapixel image where each point acts more like a 2.4μm pixel. In layman’s terms, that means you can capture more light, which especially comes in handy in dimly lit environments.
Samsung says it minimizes interference when joining data from those neighboring pixels using a new (poorly described) “ISOCELL Plus technology, which dramatically reduces crosstalk and minimizes optical loss as well as light reflection.”
The company notes that its new 108MP camera can also be used to enable 3X lossless zoom without a telephoto lens. Basically you can crop a photo and save it as a 12MP image without losing any detail.
Since the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra does have a separate 48MP telephoto lens camera, it’s unclear how important that last feature will be — I’m not sure if the two cameras work together to enable the phone’s support for 10X optical zoom or if the 48MP camera alone handles that.
Other features of the new ISOCELL Bright HM1 image sensor include support for recording 8K video at 24 frames per second, and automatic ISO selection.
You can read more about Samsung’s new ISOCELL Bright HM1 in the company’s press release.
The last Samsung product I purchased was their pro tablet back in 2014. I have emailed the company with my “2 cents” about the disappointment in the recent crop of phones. If You think the produces are worth $1500 go on and buy them. I don’t think they hold enough value for me to buy them. I am not sure if they will let me post email here for corporate but it is ;
dear_customer … AT … contactus.samsung.com
wrong email it is actually Officeofpresident @ sea.samsung.com
also I watched a You tube “jerry rig everything” new z flip is not glass lol
I didn’t even read the article – I am still upset that Samsung seems to be again getting in a pattern of not increasing certain specs every year and making other aspects of the product WORSE (no user replaceable batteries anymore- no headphone jack anymore). I was real excited first time in a long time last year when the S10 came out with a 1000 gb option. I figured as time went on they would keep increasing the specs – but nope same pattern of taking features away , adding features a lot of people don’t want and charging much higher prices.
They are simply following Apple’s steps which is unfortunate. That’s probably why I’m more excited about the Pine phone instead of anything Apple or Android pop out.
The lens can’t resolve the full resolution.
Does that mean it has hdr video recording?