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16 megapixel cellphone camera

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Sony will be introducing 16 and 6 megapixel cameras capable of recording 1080 @ 30 fps. Sony will put a sensor breakthrough on the market - The Inquirer

This is awesome but at the same time I see more privacy issues here. "Hidden" Cellphones is problem with local schools here with people taking pictures in showers and etc.

With these cameras now able to shoot high rez photos and video I can see more of these pictures and videos being released on the internet, because, the people in said pictures/video will now become recognizable.
 





That's also a lot of data to be dealing with on a cell phone, gotta have a processor fast enough to handle the encoding of 1080 video.
 
To add to Mario's point, it may require even larger capacity non-volatile memory chips to become part of what is included on the phone, or necessary on a micro-sd card.
 
That's way over kill IMO. Most computers don't even have screen with a high enough resolution to view the entire image let alone a cell phone screen.
Just a marketing ploy.

I'm happy with the 5mp camera on my phone.

-Tony
 
A 4GB SD card is enough to record about 30 mins of 1080P video, at the very least you will require a 2GB microSD card, and like Mario said, a very fast processor. I'm not sure microSD is even capable of being written to fast enough for full HD.

One thing is for sure, you won't be playing the 1080p footage back on your phone :p

My eeepc can't even play back full HD video properly, and I somehow doubt we will see 1.6Ghz+ processors in phones any time soon.

But hey, maybe a start to full HD webcams? lol
 
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It sounds like you can get some really high resolution blurry images, unless someone figure out how to get high quality optics miniaturized from current quality camera size to cell phone size. :D

I am pretty sure professional photographers have strong opinions on what quality of optics you need to justify a certain number of megapixels.
 
MarioMaster said:
That's also a lot of data to be dealing with on a cell phone, gotta have a processor fast enough to handle the encoding of 1080 video.
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Some of the manufacturers get around that by having a lot of the processing done "on chip" , the camera module itself processes a lot of the information and then sends the data elsewhere.
 
Don't be fooled by the high number of pixels per inch either. No where do they mention the size of the whole sensor. If I had a 1 megapixel camera with a sensor of 16 square inches I still have 16 million pixels to play with. This 16 megapixel sensor will likely be tiny and the total number of pixels will not be 16 million. This is a common misconception when purchasing digital cameras. Just knowing the megapixels is useless; you need to know the sensor size as well.

M
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Yeah, I have a Casio camera with a high speed CMOS sensor, it only does 720p video or high speed low resolution video, plus some other burst and software features. It runs on a lithium ion pack and the whole camera gets warm after a few minutes of use from the high speed processor to handle the incoming sensor data. The raw sensor is only 9MP also.
 
I can't stand it when someone thinks the pcitures/video will turn out because it has xxMP. I've seen pictures taken with 5MP cameras that are a lot better than pictures taken with a crappy 8MP cell phone camera.

Most everything else I wanted to mention already has been.
 
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