Samsung reportedly presses ahead with plan to develop a 600MP camera sensor

Samsung’s plan to develop a 600MP smartphone camera sensor could lastly be coming to fruition.

Earlier within the yr, Executive Vice President of Samsung’s sensor enterprise unit Yongin Park penned an editorial, expressing the corporate’s want to create a sensor that may transcend the human eye. For the nerds in us, the decision of the human eye is claimed to be round 576 megapixels.

As Park defined in his write up, rising the megapixel depend isn’t as simple as it might sound. Cramming too many pixels on a sensor would require a dimension improve and lowering the dimensions of particular person pixels would make photos boring.

The 600MP sensor that Samsung is seemingly engaged on options 0.8µm pixels and it’s 1/0.57″ massive. There is a lot extra work to be executed as a result of this specific sensor would take up 12 % of a smartphone’s space and it might additionally end in a 22mm bulge. 

For reference, the Galaxy Note is 8.3mm thick, and it goes with out saying that a 22mm camera bump would look a little too misplaced.

Why is Samsung intent on delivering a 600MP sensor?

Well, the South Korean big had beforehand stated that increased decision sensors might have functions outdoors of smartphone images, comparable to detecting doubtlessly life-threatening ailments and enhancing high quality management in industries like agriculture. 

As for what’s in it for common smartphone customers, a 600MP sensor will seemingly find a way to shoot 4K and 8K movies with extra zoom versatility.