Today all big smart phone companies announced their new gear. And achieving new unseen photo quality was high on their priority list. Let’s go quickly through some of the innovations:
Nokia 9 PureView (test on Engadget).
five are 12-megapixel create between 60 and 240 megapixels of data per photo
Xperia 1 (test on Enagdget).
– 4k hdr oled monitor
– able to shoot with 16mm, 26mm and 52 lens
– record 21:9 4k video with 30p, 24p
– BOSS image stabilization (OIS + EIS)
– dolby atmos sound
– built in LUTS to simulate cinema looks
– eye AF
Oppo with 10x zoom camera (news on Engadget)
Worlds first smarpthone with optical 10x zoom
In summary:
All companies launched new smartphones with 3 or more cameras. You can now take 100+ Megapixel images, you can also have a decent zoom on the Oppo. I bet in 3-4 years 99% of the world’s photos will be taken with a smartphone and not camera. The thing here is the combination of multiple cameras and computational power can give you features that were exclusive territory of classic digital cameras like: High Resolution, Zoom, Dynamic Range.