Samsung unveils record-breaking 200 megapixel mobile phone sensor

[AndyS]

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/uk/news/samsung-unveils-record-breaking-200-megapixel-mobile-phone-sensor

This technology is way cool! It shifts from 200 mp to 50 or 12 depending on light levels. It does this by clumping pixels into groups of 4 or 16 to act as a single pixel. But like the Cajun asked about a thermos that keeps hot things hot and cold things cold, "How do it know?"

Not a fan of pixel count myself--I've made great 13x19 prints off a 5 mp Nikon Point-n-shoot--'cause IMO anything over 10 mp is just bragging rights and has little to do with image quality.

It's still the PICTURE, not the PIXELS!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Sounds very good, but I am confused (what else is new?)

Is this a new phone (I don't think it is) or is it something that can be inserted into an existing phone?

[AndyS]

2. It will be a new phone. The exciting thing to me is the technology and how it might be applied to

larger sensors like the M4/3 (OMD and Panasonic and other) size.

In real terms for serious photographers this could mean that a crop sensor camera could have 50-100 mp and the camera could change the mp count to help with low light situations, currently an issue with less than Medium Format digital cameras. So, if there is full sunlight the mp count could go to 50 mp but for evening or candle light pixel count could go to 12 mp which makes each pixel larger to collect more light.

OMDS is partnering with Samsung so this is more likely than it was two years ago.

It's all techno babble . . . go take some pictures and have a good time!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. All right! Will do. n/t

[Grumpy Old Guy]

4. That does sound fascinating.

Programs like Topaz have breathed new life into my crop sensor cameras. I can see how technology like this could work.