Sony's Latest Smartphone Camera Sensor Can Shoot At 1,000fps (theverge.com)

Sony has taken the wraps off of its latest smartphone camera sensor which it says can shoot 1080p slow-motion video at 1,000 frames per second. "The new 3-layer CMOS sensor -- an industry first -- can capture slow motion video about eight times faster than its competition with minimal focal pane distortion, according to Sony," reports The Verge. From their report: The sensor can also take 19.3MP images in 1/120th of a second, which Sony says is four times faster than other chips, thanks to high-capacity DRAM, and a 4-tier construction on the circuit section used to convert analog video signals to digital signals. All of that fancy camera talk basically means this sensor blows every camera currently in a smartphone out of the water. Although the iPhone 7 and the Google Pixel can shoot 1080p slow-motion video at 120fps, they are still miles behind what Sony has reached with its latest sensor. At 1,000fps it even surpasses the Sony RX 100 V, which can only shoot at 960fps.

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storage

[spiny]

but the base model will probably only have enough room to store three seconds of video

Re:storage

[Anonymous Coward]

but the base model will probably only have enough room to store three seconds of video

With no sd card slot.

Is this a technical forum?

[dv82]

"4-tier construction on the circuit section used to convert analog video signals to digital signals" ... Really, posting marketing non-information on Slashdot? Perhaps it's a parallel/pipelined A/D, judging form the application, performance and use of "tier". In any case, A/D converters have common specs, and if this one is special those specs would be of interest. Nerds don't have to be protected from "fancy camera talk".

This is great!

[Gravis Zero]

Finally a feature we can really use in our everyday lives. I bet some poor sap got fired after suggesting, "if we make our phones a little bit thicker we could double the battery life!" What an idiot. ;)

Re:This is great!

[thegarbz]

Or not. We already have what you want, you people just don't want to turn it on. Reliable phone with 10-20 days of battery life? Turn on ultra-low power mode and you get everything you ever want. Oh but you don't use that mode do you? No one does, because as much as you claim that's what you and everyone wants, the convenience of a device that instead does EVERYTHING trumps your silly battery life + dumb phone requirements every time.

In the mean time I'm sure we'll all be happy not further crippling our devices to please people like you who don't use these modes which are provided to you already thank you very much.

Re:Light?

[NatasRevol]

Or you can think a little higher.

Training junior's whole team by showing slow motion of what they're doing right/wrong.