The Samsung 200MP ISOCELL HP2 image sensor for flagship smartphones features 0.6 μm pixels on a 1/1.3” surface. It also features 50MP and 12.5MP pixel-binned modes for low light, 8K30 video with less crop in the 50MP mode as well as HDR capture and better AF in low light. As the sensor already entered mass production, we might see it in one of the upcoming Galaxy S flagship smartphones. The South Korean tech giant Samsung is getting ready to reveal the new flagship Galaxy S smartphone line. Recently, the company announced a new 200MP image sensor for smartphones that brings some interesting technology. Let’s take a short look at the new Samsung ISOCELL HP2 sensor! Samsung 200MP ISOCELL HP2 image sensor The new ISOCELL HP2 image sensor from Samsung features 200 million 0.6-micrometer (μm) pixels in a 1/1.3”-type optical format (sensor size). This is the same sensor size that Samsung already used in their previous 108MP main smartphone cameras. One advantage Samsung mentions, when staying with the same sensor size, is that the camera bump on the smartphone will stay the same. That makes sense because moving to a 1″-type sensor would require a new larger lens to go with it. Therefore Samsung would either have to make more space in the phone body for the camera module or let it protrude further out and enlarge the camera bump. Pixel-binning for more flexibility Having such high resolution on such a tiny surface requires having very small physical pixels, which is...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 26 January, 2023