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The internet likes cats, so Samsung may have thought a gigantic photo of a cat was a good teaser to introduce its new HP1 200-megapixel ISOCELL sensor.
Motorola has been toying for weeks with the presentation of this Frontier which will not be just another smartphone, but the one chosen for release the new 200 megapixel Samsung ISOCELL HP1 sensor next Julya step beyond the South Korean giant in mobile photography that was presented last September 2021 but that we had not yet seen in any commercial implementation.
Now it seems to be very close, and if you don’t believe Lenovo and Motorola after so many leaks and varied rumors, to those who do you’ll have to believe is Samsung’s marketing teamswhich have indeed already started the promotion of its new star component in the photographic section with the publication of a curious advertising video that has a cute kitty as protagonist.
A frame from the video, with the huge image of the cat captured by the Samsung ISOCELL HP1
And it is that after introducing us to the Galaxy S22 Ultra thanks to a spider it seems that Samsung has quite liked this use of animals to advertiseeven more so if it is a cat with the repercussion that these small felines usually have in networks and spaces on-line.
The result, as you will see, is spectacular, with a team of professionals using a laboratory Samsung ISOCELL HP1 to photograph a cat, print out a huge billboard with that image, and recording the whole process on video now we leave you:
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The moral: do not believe everything you see on the Internet
As our colleagues from PhoneArena told us, at the level of an advertising campaign it is possible that this will work, since mixing cats and technology always usually gives results At least if we talk about social networks.
In any case, we must be cautious and wait for motorola Frontier to test the new 200 megapixel sensor with which Samsung intends to revolutionize mobile photography, since here the sensor has been mounted on a special bracket with specific circuit boards in which we do not know what image processors will have been mounted.
Besides, opticians are professionals and they will be very far from those that any smartphone can mount, so this image captured in a controlled, studio environment It is far from an example of what the ISOCELL HP1 can do on any mobile device that chooses to integrate it.
Even so, we must give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and that is using a sensor designed for smartphones to print a 28 x 22 meter billboard is simply impressive on its ownalso taking into account the level of detail obtained by this new generation sensor, which signs an almost incredible result of sharpness and colors.
An infographic of ChameleonCell technology, Samsung’s magical ‘pixel-binning’.
The secret is in the ‘binning’and this is how ChameleonCell works
To delve a little into what we can expect from this new Samsung ISOCELL HP1 that promises so much, it is worth highlight the enormous resolution of a sensor that will have 200 megapixelsno less, plus 0.64 microns each but with the ability to group according to the needs of the moment to capture more light and receive more information, thus improving the final result.
The Suwon giant has named this technology as ChameleonCellalthough it is something like an evolution of the already known ‘pixel-binning’ applied by many manufacturers, and that allows the ISOCELL HP1 group pixels up to 16 into 1 thus being able to generate 200 MP images with a pixel size of 0.64 microns, 50 MP with pixels of 1.28 microns and even 12.5 MP with huge pixels of 2.56 microns.
It should be remembered here that an iPhone 13 Pro Max has pixels of 1.9 micronsso the resulting images of this Samsung ISOCELL HP1 will potentially have much more light and information thanks to its larger size of clustered pixels.
The filtered rear of this Motorola Frontier that we will see in July, and that should house the Samsung ISOCELL HP1 in the foreground.
Samsung’s idea, therefore, is not just to talk about images with stratospheric resolutions of 200 megapixels, but rather provide the sensor with the capacity to adjust to the needs of each momentalso allowing the user to have versatility to zoom losslessly thanks to sensor size and resolution or take smaller but sharper photos when the environment calls for it.
Now we know that in perfect conditions and study the sensor can capture 200 megapixel images with an impressive resultthe poster of the cat corroborates it, but in situations of our day to day surely we will end up using it almost always in 12.5 MP shots with huge pixels capable of receiving and capturing much more light.
Now it remains to wait for commercial implementations to assess the size, the necessary humps that house it and its results in “live fire” within a mobile device. In any case, for now it is good to add one more detail, and that is that sources from Korea warn that this ISOCELL HP1 will do something never seen before and quite impressive, which is record 8K video at 30 frames per second using the shooting mode ‘binning’ from four pixels to one.
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