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Samsung has found the best way to demonstrate the capabilities of its 200 MP sensor: a cat


The internet loves cats, so maybe Samsung thought a gigantic photo of a cat would be a good teaser to show off its new 200-megapixel ISOCELL HP1 sensor.

Motorola has been playing for weeks with the presentation of this Frontier, which will not be just another smartphone, but rather the one chosen to launch the new 200-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL HP1 sensor next July, a step beyond the southern giant -Korean mobile photography. which is presented last September 2021 but which we had not yet seen in any commercial implementation.

Now it seems to be very close, and if you don’t believe Lenovo and Motorola after so many leaks and various rumors, what you will have to believe are Samsung’s marketing teams, who have indeed already started to promote their new flagship component in the photographic field. section with the publication of a curious advertising video that has a cute kitten as the protagonist.

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A still from the video, with the huge image of the cat captured by the Samsung ISOCELL HP1

And it is that after presenting the Galaxy S22 Ultra to us thanks to a spider, it seems that Samsung has liked this use of animals to advertise, even more if it is a cat with the repercussion that these little felines usually have on networks and online spaces. .

The result, as you will see, is spectacular, with a team of professionals using a Samsung ISOCELL HP1 laboratory to photograph a cat, print a huge billboard with this image and record the whole process in the video that we leave you now :

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The moral: don’t believe everything you see on the internet

As our colleagues from PhoneArena told us, at the level of an advertising campaign, it can work, since mixing cats and technology always gives results, at least when it comes to social networks.

In any case, we will have to be careful and wait for the Motorola Frontier to test the new 200 megapixel sensor with which Samsung intends to revolutionize mobile photography, since here the sensor has been mounted on a special support with specific printed circuits in the which we don’t know what image processors will have been mounted.

Additionally, the optics are professional and will be a far cry from what any smartphone can mount, so this image captured in a controlled, studio environment is in no way an example of what the ISOCELL HP1 will be capable of. do on any mobile device that chooses to integrate it.

Even so, you have to give Caesar what is Caesar’s, which is that using a sensor designed for smartphones to print a 28 x 22 meter billboard is just impressive in itself, also considering the level of detail obtained by this new generation sensor, which signs an almost incredible result of sharpness and colors.

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An infographic of ChameleonCell technology, Samsung’s magic pixel-binning.

The secret is in the binning, and that’s how ChameleonCell works

To delve a little into what can be expected from this new Samsung ISOCELL HP1 that promises so much, it is worth noting the enormous resolution of a sensor that will have 200 megapixels, no less, in addition to 0.64 microns each but with the possibility of grouping according to the needs of the moment to capture more light and receive more information, thus improving the final result.

The Suwon giant has called this technology ChameleonCell, although it is in a way an evolution of the famous “pixel-binning” applied by many manufacturers, and which allows the ISOCELL HP1 to group pixels up to at 16 in 1, thus being able to generate 200 MP images with a pixel size of 0.64 microns, 50 MP with pixels of 1.28 microns and even 12.5 MP with huge pixels of 2.56 microns.

It should be remembered here that an iPhone 13 Pro Max has 1.9 micron pixels, so the resulting images from this Samsung ISOCELL HP1 will potentially have a lot more light and information thanks to its larger clustered pixel size.

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The filtered rear of this Motorola Frontier which we will see in July, and which should house the Samsung ISOCELL HP1 in the foreground.

Samsung’s idea is therefore not only to talk about images with stratospheric resolutions of 200 megapixels, but rather to provide the sensor with the ability to adapt to the needs of each moment, also allowing the user to have the versatility to zoom in losslessly thanks to the size and resolution of the sensor or take smaller but sharper photos when the environment calls for it.

Now we know that in perfect conditions and in the studio the sensor can capture 200 megapixel images with an impressive result, the cat poster confirms this, but in our daily situations we will surely end up using it almost always in 12.5 MP shots. with huge pixels capable of receiving and capturing much more light.

It now remains to wait for commercial implementations to assess the size, the necessary bumps that house it and its results in “live fire” within a mobile device. In any case, for now it is good to add one more detail, and that is that Korean sources are warning that this ISOCELL HP1 will do something never seen before and quite impressive, which is to record 8K video at 30fps using four-to-one pixel binning.

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