The First Photo Taken With Motorola's Upcoming 200MP Smartphone Camera
Motorola is expected to soon launch a new Moto Edge flagship smartphone device as soon as the next month that will use Samsung’s 200-megapixel ISOCELL HP1 sensor. Ahead of the launch, the company has shared a photo taken with it on social media in China.
Motorola announced that it was releasing a new flagship smartphone sometime this summer back in May.
GSM Arena spotted a post on Weibo from the General Manager of Motorola in China, Chen Jin, who published a sample photo captured with the new 200-megapixel sensor that is coming to the company’s smartphone.
The photo is captured at 50 megapixels using the sensor’s ability to create a four-in-one pixel binned image. The photo is quite large at 6,144 by 8,192 pixels and is 13.8-megabytes in size.
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The photo looks most impressive when viewed at less than 100%, but when examined at full resolution, some issues with the photo’s quality start to reveal themselves.
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There appear to be significant lens aberrations, specifically a lack of sharpness across the frame. While the sensor is able to render extreme resolution, the optical system used to capture his image is either flawed or isn’t finalized since there is significant pixel smearing that is visible very soon after looking away from the center of the image. That said, even the very center of the image does not appear to be particularly sharp. Read More...