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| [* black] First thing to go is all these cameras! | |
| [* black] We can't resist cracking open the massive 108 MP wide-angle camera after we pull it free—Samsung hasn't been shy about this sensor's capabilities, and we'd like to see it in person. | |
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| + | [* red] The sensor is about double the surface area of the iPhone 11's primary 12 MP wide-angle sensor. |
| [* black] Bigger sensors and more pixels don't always mean better images, though! 108 ''million'' pixels crammed into a ~12 mm rectangle (***measure me!***) makes for some very tiny pixels, and small pixels on smartphone-sized sensors [https://www.dpreview.com/articles/5365920428/the-effect-of-pixel-and-sensor-sizes-on-noise/2|tend to produce noisy images in low-light conditions|new_window=true]. | |
| [* black] Samsung claims that this new sensor is able to shoot clear photos even in low light conditions thanks to a new [https://www.dpreview.com/news/5365192640/this-is-how-the-samsung-isocell-bright-hmx-108mp-mobile-image-sensor-works|barrier built around each pixel|new_window=true] and 3x3 pixel binning (3x3=9 hence ''nona''-binning). | |
| [* icon_note] ''[https://www.ubergizmo.com/what-is/pixel-binning-camera/|Pixel binning|new_window=true]'' is a fancy camera term for combining groups of pixels to gather more light. The result is a brighter—though lower resolution—photo that hopefully has less noise. | |
| - | [* icon_reminder] Binning ''isn't'' your average everyday downsampling. All of this pixel partying happens at the hardware level eliminating conversion errors. |
| + | [* icon_reminder] Binning ''isn't'' your average everyday downsampling. All of this pixel partying happens at the hardware level, eliminating conversion errors. |