Sony’s Camera Phones better than Compact Cameras

Sony has upped their game yet again and unveiled a 12.25-million-pixel CMOS imaging sensor, this looks great but for camera’s but these aren’t meant for cameras. They are being released to improve the quality of Camera phones.

This will close the gap in the standard of compact cameras to camera phones and may even be the first steps to making a typical point and shoot digital cameras absolute to move over for all singing all dancing camera phones.

These sensors should be released in Spring next year alongside previews of the new f/2.8 lens module, which is designed to produce the 35mm viewing angle equivalent of a 28mm optic. This new lens should be available for purchase next September.

Sony claims the 12.25MP sensor is the industry’s first and smallest sensor that also has the highest pixel count.

Camera phones have become all the rage since their release and have been improving over the years some phones starting to boast 5 and 8 megapixel quality. As most people now have a mobile phone it seems to make sense to have a good camera so you don’t need to carry both around with you.

Camera phones have become more stylish and better quality images but have not yet managed to overtake compact digital cameras that are also improving.

This new technology developed by Sony could change all of that, Camera phones have smaller sensors which risk ‘image degradation’, Sony’s new sensor has a ‘unique pixel structure’ which should help deliver high sensitivity levels and high signal-to-noise ratio.

The sensors ) will be able to record images at a continuous image burst rate of around 10 frames per second! The sensor’s image diameter area is only 7.1mm and they will also release a sensor that is an 8.11MP sensor which according to Sony should deliver up to 15 frames per second!

Compact Cameras should be quaking in their boots!