Sony boss reportedly reveals Apple's plans for 8MP iPhone 5 camera - rumour

Sony boss reportedly reveals Apple's plans for 8MP iPhone 5 camera - rumour
AppleInsider | Sony boss reportedly reveals Apple's plans for 8MP iPhone 5 camera - rumor

Reports emerged on Friday that, during an interview, Sony CEO Howard Stringer had accidentally confirmed plans to supply an eight-megapixel camera for Apple's next-generation iPhone.

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*OOps*

What happens next? That's what I wanna know.

8mp....mmmmmmmmm....droooooolllll..

8MP sounds great, but I hope it's more than just a pixel bump but another improvement in the overall lens like Apple did with the current 5MP camera. The current 8MP Android phones are proof that more pixels isn't always better.

Also, I'm more interested in Apple upgrading the cameras in the iPad 3. Once I hear confirmation of that, I'm upgrading my iPad

Kash said:

8MP sounds great, but I hope it's more than just a pixel bump but another improvement in the overall lens like Apple did with the current 5MP camera. The current 8MP Android phones are proof that more pixels isn't always better.

Also, I'm more interested in Apple upgrading the cameras in the iPad 3. Once I hear confirmation of that, I'm upgrading my iPad

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True that.

Hopefully it's not just to bump up the specs.

Often, just adding pixels does not increase picture quality.

I call those "marketing pixels".

A good example is that older 6 MP DSLRs can blow away 14 MP compacts overall.

Often the extra noise from the tiny pixels requires more noise reduction processing which basically blurs away the noise.

Carl Zeiss here I come.

I fully agree with less being more in the case of phone cameras with itsy bitsy sensors. Cramming more MP on to them is stupid since it only means that less light is able to reach the photons. That = more compression needed and more noise reduction needed. Overall a bad experience. Though in the defense of some companies, we've got pretty good software which deals with all of that. So if you have decent enough glass and good light, you should be ok.

I rather like the results I get from my EVO 4g:

(yes, I wanted the city like that I focused on the boardwalk as I like the depth of field this created) I lowered the saturation and upped the contrast by 1 step here in the phone cameras settings.





I use an camera app (from the droid market) called Vignette, which allows better manipulation for color, effects, borders/frames etc.. Desaturated this a tad as well as reduced contrast. Great app. Used it for all the photos here. Much better than the standard phone camera app, which in its self is pretty good.


Oh, and I ran these through Lightroom ONLY to add the watermark. No other editing was done. In fact, running these compressed to heck photos through LR, only to be exported with more compression is not a good thing.. but they look fine to me.

Doug

I agree with the above posts.
Most people think wow 8MP in a phone is awesome. And I must have. And forget that without a good lens and all the rest the extra MP is kind of wasted. I'm pretty sure Apple are aware of this. And would not just add more MP for marketing. Hopefully the resultant picture quality is great and does not compromise at all on battery life.

I don't get why people are jumping to slam down 8mp. CLEARLY we know not everything revolves around high mp's, but knowing apple, and how the iphone's camera is pretty good, having it jump to 8mp will only make it that much better. Dang people!! There are actual camera's if you are truly that worried about having good quality.

idrinorbarsaku said:

I don't get why people are jumping to slam down 8mp. CLEARLY we know not everything revolves around high mp's, but knowing apple, and how the iphone's camera is pretty good, having it jump to 8mp will only make it that much better. Dang people!! There are actual camera's if you are truly that worried about having good quality.

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This all depends upon whether or not they've also increased the density of the sensor, vs simply cramming more megapixels on the same sized one. If the sensor is the same size as it is now, and they try to fit more MP on it, what happens is that less light is able to reach each photon. This means that in turn, they'll have to fine tune the compression in the software, as well as try to "enhance" the noise reduction algorithm in order to compensate for the luminance and color noise grain.

That's really just a part of it, but enough to make a big difference. Megapixels, especially on a camera phone mean ZILCH. My Evo would produce the same, if not better images with a 4 MP sensor. In fact, I wish it had one rather than 8. I remember this old Kodak point and shoot I had some years ago, maximum 6 MP I think? Of course the sensor was slightly larger than our phone's cameras, but it took fantastic images that you could blow up really large prints with. I wish I hadn't brought it into the waters of Vieques' Mosquito bay That thing died instantly from the massively concentrated amounts of salt amongst other things...


Plenty of info Here about sensors etc..

Doug