OmniVision Changes the Picture with New Sensor
May 27, 2008, 9:37 AM by Eric M. Zeman
Camera-phone chip maker OmniVision has created a brand new type of image sensor that it says can be used in high-end mobile phones as early as 2009. The new sensor crams far more pixels into the same space used in current chips. OmniVision says the new sensors can squeeze 8 megapixels into the same area of today's 3 megapixel chips. It uses a new technology called backside illumination, which allows the smaller sensors to collect as much light as the larger pixels. The new sensors will also have much better low-light performance than current chips.
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Comments
Bigger crappy pictures?
So since they are stuffing more pixels into the same size sensor, does that not mean that they are just going to get crappier pictures at a larger resolution? In the camera world, I've always seen that the larger the sensor size to pixel count ratio, the better quality image. More pixels in smaller sensors == crap.
you sir,
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are a moron
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