This is a glimpse into the mobile handset future through Sony Ericsson’s eyes – date: 2012.
Ignore todays cutbacks to R&D budgets and the global economy shuddering to a halt
Whilst LTE and fast CPUs are no real surprise and Japanese superphones are already not to far from that 1,024 x 768 XGA screen resolution.
What is most interesting is the embedded camera sensors: Between 12-20 megapixels and capable of recording Full HD video.
Stacking on the MPs is all very well as long the optics and image processing are there and up to the job of supporting this resolution. I also think that we’ll be needing a hefty bit of built in memory as well!
Anyone else think that a lot of these projection will be seen before 2012?
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20mpx…looks a little exaggerated
When I see a camera phone that offers just 3 megapixels with a decent lens, then I’ll be impressed.
Sony has a 25MP full frame chip…now THAT’s interesting
Thing that gets me is; unless you’re gonna blow things up to poster size is there a real need for anything above 2 or 3mp?
The one advantage of a big pixel count is that you can crop images. However, there is no point in cropping into an image shot through a rubbish lens.
Theoretically, I can sit (as I have done) in a pub on the south bank of the Thames and shoot pictures of people at the top of St Pauls. However, no matter how many megapixels I have, my lens cannot resolve detail enough to allow me to cut in and make a portrait – not even an 800mm Canon L series lens (which I will never afford) with a 2x extender, on say, a Canon 1DS MkIII (21Mpx). Sure, with cropping I can fill the frame with a face, but it will be nowhere near as good an image as someone shot using an an 85mm lens from 8 feet away on a 5 year old 6Mpx Canon 10D. First you have the lens resolution issue and then you have atmospherics… the tele compression of pollution, moisture, heat shimmer and dust, not forgetting camera shake that even the best IS system wouldn’t mange to contain.