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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[spiny]

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

Re:storage

[Anonymous Coward]

Full HD at 8 bit per channel is about 50Mbit.
Their specs say the DRAM has 1Gbit capacity.
So that's 20 frames at high speed that can fit in the internal buffer.
At 240 fps (their specs don't mention 1000 fps??), that gives you 0.08s of video before it needs to be transferred to flash storage.
Transfer to flash is probably a few orders of magnitude slower, so this will only work for very short bursts of 20 frames.
They could use the chip in a specialized camera with a high bandwidth RAM buffer, but for smartphones this just seems to be a gimmick.

Re:storage

[alantus]

The compact version will have a memory stick slot, while the normal one will use betamax tapes.

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".