In recent years, in the circle, there is a star sensor that is particularly eye-catching, that is, the customized outsole sensor from Sony - IMX766. High-end flagships of brands including Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, honor and other brands have adopted this sensor, and have also received unanimous praise from many users.
However, careful users should also find that in the vivo series of products, the IMX766 sensor used is called IMX766V. So why do many manufacturers choose IMX766, what is the difference between Vivo's IMX766V sensor and the public version of IMX766? Today, I will take you through the actual measurement comparison to explore.
One. Why do so many manufacturers choose IMX766?
To understand why many manufacturers choose IMX766, we must first understand the hardware parameters of IMX766.
1/1.56-inch outsole, 50 million pixels, four-in-one pixel size of 2μm, while supporting omni-pixel omnidirectional focus, extreme speed capture and other functions. To be honest, compared to some of the 1/1.28-inch, 1/1.12-inch sensors on the market, it is indeed not enough to see, but it is still much better than the 1/1.65-inch sensor on the iPhone 13 Pro Max wide-angle lens.
Therefore, for manufacturers, the IMX766 sensor combined with the optimization of each family's algorithm can bring a good image experience to users. And for now, manufacturers have a lot of experience tuning the IMX766, and they can better play the full strength of this sensor.
2. What are the advantages of the IMX766V in hardware configuration?
According to vivo's official introduction, IMX766V is a sensor exclusively customized by vivo from Sony. Compared with the public version of the IMX766, the IMX766V uses Sony's second-generation color filter array technology, with α anti-reflection process and other technologies, and the sensor also uses new technologies on the RGB ultra-thin color filter, by optimizing the color pigment of the filter to make the filter thinner and more transparent.
This means that products using the IMX766V sensor can restore the accuracy of the picture color as much as possible even when using the color scheme on the filter to increase the amount of light entering the sensor.
3. Comparison of IMX766 and IMX766V measured
After talking about the hardware parameters of IMX766 and IMX766V, let's compare the difference between IMX766 and IMX766V in the actual shooting experience through actual measurement, here we choose the vivo S15 Pro equipped with IMX766V and the Xiaomi Mi 12X equipped with IMX766 at the same price to shoot.
It can be seen that the samples taken by the two models are very obvious in the tone of the first place, the shooting time is the time period when the sunset is just setting, and the hue brought by the vivo S15 Pro is closer to what the human eye sees in the real environment.
Zoom in to see the details, the office building light plate part, equipped with IMX766V vivo S15 Pro for the high-light part of the pressing also has a relatively obvious advantage. The tree part, for the reduction of "green" is also quite accurate.
For another set of samples, the picture brought by the two sensors this time does not differ much in the overall look and feel, but we zoom in to see the details:
Left: vivo S15 Pro; Right: Xiaomi Mi 12X
It is still a very obvious problem in the handling of highlights and shadows, although the light is more complicated, but the vivo S15 Pro does have a finer exposure control than the Xiaomi Mi 12X, which makes the sample get better dynamic range and picture quality.
Finally, let's take a set of "big scenes" in a complex lighting environment, the first thing that needs to be explained is that the shooting just caught up with fog, so the overall picture is somewhat gray. However, this does not affect our comparative test, through this set of samples can be seen that vivo S15 Pro retains more shadow details than Xiaomi Mi 12X.
Zooming in to see the details, it is obvious that the vivo S15 Pro equipped with IMX766V is quite accurate for the reproduction of light colors, and the highlight suppression on both sides of the "China Zun" is also very fine.
Left: vivo S15 Pro; Right: Xiaomi Mi 12X
Although the image performance of the mobile phone is inextricably linked to the software algorithm, the vivo S15 Pro has the advantage of using the xiaomi mi 12X of the public IMX766 in the image experience, which obviously has a credit to the IMX766V.
Four. summary
Whether it is paper data or actual testing experience, we can feel the advantages of vivo S15 Pro compared to the Xiaomi Mi 12X using the public IMX766. It seems that the IMX766V that Sony has customized exclusively for Vivo is not a "commercial gimmick".
It is worth noting that IMX766V was first used in the main camera of vivo X70 Pro, and now it is used on the more affordable vivo S15 Pro, which can also be regarded as reducing the threshold of the user experience flagship sensor. If you have a limited budget but have a certain demand for mobile phone images, then you can completely choose vivo S15 Pro, which is probably the optimal solution for moving images that you can choose at this price point.
(7950521)