Since the camera first appeared on Sharp mobile phones in 2000 (one said to be Kyocera mobile phones in 1999), after more than 20 years of development, mobile phone cameras have become one of the main selling points from the original secondary function, with more and more numbers of carriers and higher pixels, and have already broken through the 100 million mark. But there are also mobile phone manufacturers are not moved, mobile phone camera pixels have not been updated for several years, it is Apple.
Recently, there is news that Apple is expected to upgrade the mobile phone camera on the new generation of iPhone 14, raising the pixel to 48 million, for which some netizens said that it is finally not the ancestral 12 million pixels. According to the news of Tianfeng International, the new iphoen will launch a 6.7-inch 6.1-inch model, both sizes have high-end models and low-end models, the pixels of the wide-angle lens of the two high-end models will be upgraded to 48 million, and the CMOS sensor size is 1/1.3 inch.
The last time the iPhone was upgraded, the pixels were retroactively traced back to the iPhone6S 6 years ago, upgraded from 8 million to 12 million, and has remained unchanged, in this era of rapid pixel changes, Apple was ridiculed as "ancestral 12 million pixels" is not unreasonable. However, the decision to determine whether the imaging effect is good or not depends entirely on the pixels, and the optical quality of the lens, the CMOS chip and the algorithm have a lot to do with ridicule, but in the final imaging effect, Apple has always been one of the best.
In terms of lenses, the lenses used in the main camera system of Apple mobile phones are basically from the optical giant Daliguang, and Daliguang, as a leading enterprise in the industry, has strict standards and specifications for the processing accuracy, assembly accuracy and governance of the lens, the lens reliability is good and stable, the overall yield is high, coupled with Apple's quality control, there are few quality problems.
And CMOS chip Apple is not static, the size has been upgrading, as the saying goes, "the bottom is king", the CMOS chip size of the iPhone is not the largest in the industry, but it is also maintained in the first echelon. The cmOS size becomes larger but the total number of pixels does not change, indicating that the individual pixels have become larger. For example, the main camera of the iPhone13 pro is equipped with Sony's IMX703 CMOS chip, which measures 1/1.68 inches and a single pixel of 1.9μm, and other brands need to synthesize large pixels through four-in-one or nine-in-one technology.
Finally, the algorithm and the tuning of the lens, apple mobile phone optimization of the camera has always been the top level in the industry, coupled with the time interval between Apple's launch of mobile phones is much more than other brands, engineers can have enough time to adjust the lens, and the immutable pixels also reduce the optimization difficulty of engineers. In contrast, some other brands of mobile phones, pixel upgrades are too fast, leaving engineers with little time to optimize, and there are more pixels that need to be parsed, which is also the reason why some high-pixel mobile phones are often seen overturned.
Although Apple's shooting ability is still in the first echelon of the industry, it is not in an absolute leading position, and it does need a major upgrade, which is likely to be a comprehensive upgrade. In addition, it is reported that the upgrade of Apple is to cooperate with the promotion of AR/MR technology and bring a better experience. What do you think? Will Apple give up the ancestral 12 MEGAPIX?
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