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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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but the base model will probably only have enough room to store three seconds of video
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"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".
But the storage will only be able to save on frame every three seconds.
Sony's new sensor goes to 1000.
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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. ;)
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I guess that 100fps means every shot will have an aperture less than 1/1000th of a second, meaning it will only work in very bright setups. Still an impressive feat though.
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As impressive as those speeds are, I am much more impressed by a camera's image quality. What are the practical applications to these per-second speeds? Will they help eliminate blurring when I take a picture of my daughter, and she starts crawling away right when I take the picture? That would be useful.
While I can certainly applaud Sony in advancing technology for the sake of innovation and capitalism, the form factor certainly questions logic here.
I shouldn't be surprised though. When it comes to consumer electronics, the vendor knows best, which is why they no longer give a damn about asking a single customer if 1,000fps is something they want or need in a smartphone. It's not exactly a necessary feature in order to take drunk selfies and cat videos destined for social media.
Camera enthusiasts will continue to cringe as smartphone focus will eventually push development away from the DSLR form factor entirely. It's a shame, because as it stands today, there is no substitute for a lot of good glass.
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I'm confused, WTF?
The high-speed readout capability makes it possible to record up to 1,000 fps (approximately 8x faster than conventional products*3) super slow motion movies in full HD (1920x1080 pixels).
Frame rate Movies
60fps 4K (3840 x 2160)
240fps Full HD / 720p
src: http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201702/17-013E/index.html
> Shoot At 1,000fps
> this sensor blows every camera
It seems that, to advertise the qualities of a smartphone, expressions related to firearms and ballistics are of common usage. So, if once in a while a smartphone explodes it should not be a surprise, after all.
Seems the other layers are for memory and processing, not three layers of image capture. Pity...
Also see through clothes like those Sony camcorders from the 90s?
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That's good. Say a raw file is ~20MB, so one second costs 20GB!
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Sure is a neat little feature. And for 99% of the consumer world smart phone camera tech is just right. You're not looking for extreme quality when everything you use is going on Facebook or Instagram to boot. But until manufactures can improve upon these tiny sensors to the point that the pictures come out crisp and rich at their maximum resolutions, photographers like me will probably stick to our big, loud DSLRs. I use my iPhone camera about as sparingly as possible just because the quality control issues with producing anything from it is infuriating.
I find it weird that the slow-motion is only compared to iPhone 7 and Pixel at 120 fps, while Galaxy S7 has a double framerate of 240 compared to those. Of course this is still far from 960 fps, but the summary gives an impression that iPhone 7 and Pixel were the industry leaders in this regard, which they simply aren't.
FWIW, the 3 layers are not red/green/blue, but photosensor, DRAM, and logic. It's a standard Bayer pattern sensor; not a multilayer color sensor. And by "focal plane distortion" they don't mean focus error due to different depths for RGB, but rolling shutter ("jello effect"). (The post was a bit confusing - it's easy to read it as being about a Foveon-type sensor. But no.)
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A camera like this used to cost $10,000 or more and it wouldn't even have a phone attached.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
For me the real innovation here is significantly reducing the rolling shutter effect. 1000fps is just a byproduct of the tech to do that.
However, in an Apple-like move drawing upon great reserves of courage, the phone won't have a lens.
I have the Xperia Z5 Compact which is supposed to have a top-notch camera ... in automatic mode it spits out crappy pictures about half of the time. I used to get *much* better pictures with my old Samsung S2 :-(