TL; DR
- Samsung captured a 200MP image with its upcoming sensor.
- He then printed the image on a 616-square-meter canvas.
We have known about Samsung’s 200MP sensor for some time, but so far it has not appeared on a smartphone. Although rumors claim that the Motorola phone will soon appear with the highest resolution camera in the world, Samsung gave us a first look at the results of the sensor images.
The company’s sensor solutions team did everything possible with a 200MP sensor, which they say is still under development. He captured an image using the camera module and printed a huge photo 28 meters wide and 22 meters high. It’s about one and a half times bigger than a basketball court!
“I’ve always wondered how big you could achieve when it comes to printing a 200MP image,” said Minhyuk Lee, an engineer with the Samsung System LSI Business team.
So how did you do it? For starters, Samsung didn’t bake the 200MP sensor into a smartphone. The team selected a cat as an object and attached the camera module to a test board.
“The photographer first checked the screen and adjusted the composition. Engineers then changed the settings to optimize exposure and focus. After observing the cat’s movements, the film crew used various methods to take a series of photos, “Samsung said, describing the process.
The team then printed the 616-square-meter image on twelve separate 2.3-meter pieces of fabric and then sewed it together. You can see the resulting image in the video embedded above.
“The main advantage of the 200MP image sensor is that it allows users to capture an image that can be enlarged and cropped without compromising image quality,” said Kaeul Lee and Minhyuk Lee of Samsung’s sensor solutions team. “The 200MP image sensor will soon be the optimal solution for 8K video recording,” they concluded in a press release.
When it hits phones, Samsung’s HP1 200MP sensor will use ChameleonCell’s new pixel collection technology, which allows the sensor to group four or 16 pixels into one larger pixel. These configurations effectively convert the sensor into a 50MP sensor with 1.28-micron pixels or a 12.5MP sensor with 2.56-micron pixels.
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