I guess you all know that the most used camera of the world is actually a phone, the iPhone! And the new iPhone 4S uses a new back illuminated 8 Megapixel Sony sensor. The confirmation comes via Chipworks.com (Click here). That’s a huge business for Sony and again a prof that Sony is currently producing the best sensors on market (like the [shoplink 8452]Sony NEX-5n[/shoplink] 16 Megapixel sensor). I can’t wait to see how good the new fullframe sensor is. We only have to wait a couple of months to see it 🙂
And her eis one more Sony sensor news: Ziptronix bonds with Sony to provide its oxide bonding technology for backside illumination imaging sensors (eetimes.com).
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looks like [nearly] everybody’s favorite phone has got a Sony inside of them. It should be interesting when people start to use their iphone for more than casual snaps of their Starbucks orders and have them published on the web
One of the very interesting things about this camera is, since the iPhone has a built in gyroscope and accelerometer, the phone uses the larger sensor area to dynamically stabilize video shooting. HD is a 2MP image, so it just changes what part of the sensor it pulls the image out of, based on how the phone is moving and how the image looks compared to previous frames.
The sensor actually delvers the full 8MB at 30FPS for the phones CPU to process…. the phones CPU has a dedicated co-processor just for this.
This is probably, excluding the size of the sensor and the quality of lens, the best camera on the market. The other cameras have crap for processing (BOINZ is a joke, really) and they rarely have the ability to pull a video image off of any part of the sensor they want.
Yeah that image stabilising looks great!
Isn’t that what the a77 does? It uses software stabilising rather than sensor shifting.
I thought this was Sony_ALPHA_RUMORS.
You’re one for three.
With the flooding in Thailand, there may be less rumors out there
:p
Nothing new here…
I use a Sony Ericsson Neo which came out last March which is the first cellphone to use the camera (8 mpx F/2.4) together with the Sony Ericsson Arc.
Why aren’t back illuminated CMOS sensors used in DSLRs? I currently shoot with a Fuji HS10 and its sensor is back illuminated giving it a huge edge over other cameras of its caliber. Adding this tech to DSLRs can only be a benefit. Imagine if the A77 had this tech it would then far surpass the 5N in high ISO
Can I get an LAEA-3 adapter to put my Maxxum glass on there?
Thats it! I’m selling my sony alpha gear and jumping ship to apple.
Hahaha…joking of coarse.
I bet the iPhone 4S is crap over 1600 ISO 😉
Sounds familiar. I thought people are raging that the 24megapixels sensor sucks over iso1600 as well?
That assumes Apple even ALLOWED their customers to adjust the ISO.
+1
Simplicity needs lack of functionality.
More options = less functionality.
I think Sony finally found its real place in photography.
Are we really going to here about the new full frame in the next couple months. Now I am really excited. Can I preorder?
Kodak going to chapter 11. all imaging companies buying ‘senor’ from Sony. Omgeeeeezeness! What will happen in future imaging world. All sensors powered by Sony, Canon and Samsung 😀 like iOS vs Adroid vs WP
What about the lens? Carl Zeiss? Or some cheap lens?
I also wonder what happened to the lens rumors we were supposed to hear in the last weeks. What went wrong Andrea? No trustable rumors yet?
no interesting for this.. i want know more new firmware about A77 !!
Before in some sources was info that Sony does not have enough capacity for so huge amount of iPhone sensors, therefore it will produce only part of sensors, but other part will come from Omnivision.
http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/
wait what? FF in two months??
oh yea!
They updates the lens from a 4 element design to a 5 element design – also a new infrared filter is added – and new maximal arperture is 2.4.
The camera (together with the new sensor) is a really improvement!
The image quality is much better in the iPhone 4S than in the iPhone 4.
Believe me – we (my wife and i) have both!
I think you should check out this article that says the sensor used is NOT a Sony its Omnivision’s OV8830 sensor
http://www.eoshd.com/content/4362/iphone-4s-camera-sensor-actually-capable-of-4k-24p-video
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-14/omnivision-falls-as-website-sees-sony-sensor-in-apple-iphone.html
Business world is scary!!!
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/10/06/omnivision-jp-morgan-sees-iphone-4s-win/
For now, track the news. This is not just our ramblings. It’s an actual ongoing debate involving millions of dollars.
So speaking of the full frame sensor… Rumour has it the Canon 1D Mark V will be announced on Oct 18th and the Nikon d800 on Oct 26th… No release date for the a99/a88? Or price?