HTC ONE M9 NEW EGG FULL

HTC One CamerasДЄs we can see, it seems that the optics stack has changed dramatically for this generation. The basic specs of the camera system can be seen in the table below. With this in mind, weвЂ™re led to the context of the One M9вЂ™s camera system, which represents HTCвЂ™s return to a more traditional camera system. For reference, by simply increasing sensor size from the One M8 to One M9 we get a 40% increase in sensitivity when ignoring other factors. A larger sensor can also significantly offset all of the issues that come with a smaller pixel size. This can be seen in phones like the Galaxy Note 4, LG G3, and Lumia 930 as they all manage to deliver competitive low light image quality when compared against something like the iPhone 6. The other issue is that itвЂ™s patently clear that good post-processing, oversampling techniques, OIS, and other techniques can significantly reduce the impact of a small pixel size. Fundamentally, itвЂ™s clear that HTC is not in a position where they can get a custom camera sensor of extremely high quality like Apple. It would be easy to assume that HTC made this decision simply because they caved to marketing pressure, but this really doesnвЂ™t present a realistic picture of HTCвЂ™s situation. With a 1/2.4вЂќ sensor format, this gives us 20.1 megapixels, or around five times as many pixels as the Ultrapixel sensor that we saw in the One M8 and One M7. With the One M9, HTC seems to have left the Ultrapixel concept behind, as the rear camera has a Toshiba T4KA7 sensor with 1.12 micron pixels. However, with 8MP the resolution issue wasnвЂ™t there and with a custom Sony sensor it seemed that they managed to avoid the problems that HTC had. HTCвЂ™s design choice wasnвЂ™t necessarily wrong, as Apple followed HTC by moving to a 1.5 micron pixel size for the iPhone 5s. The other problem was that the Bayer layout of the sensor reduced the realistic resolution of the photo from 4MP to 2MP. As a result, the dynamic range of the sensor wasnвЂ™t quite as high as one would hope. The problem with all of this was that the One M7вЂ™s camera sensor didnвЂ™t seem to be as technologically advanced as its rivals.

HTC ONE M9 NEW EGG FULL

Given that most people were unlikely to even view a photo at the full 4MP resolution of the HTC OneвЂ™s camera, this seemed like a pretty reasonable trade-off. This cost is a reduction in dynamic range, and a reduction in sensitivity on a per-pixel basis. Therefore, for the same sensor size, increasing resolution comes at a cost.

The size of each pixel establishes an upper bound on critical characteristics like the sensitivity of the pixel (how likely the pixel will count a photon) and the full well capacity of each pixel (how many photons a pixel can hold before saturating). In short, a CMOS image sensor is fundamentally constrained by a sensor size for a given form factor. However, to really understand why HTC chose to use a larger pixel size we have to understand what the trade-off meant.

From a design standpoint, this represents a bold trade-off as consumers have traditionally focused upon megapixel count as the primary indicator of camera quality. Instead, they went back up the ladder to a 2 micron pixel size which gave us a four megapixel camera. Starting with the One M7, HTC took a rather bold path by avoiding the megapixel wars that were dominating the smartphone industry on the camera. The One M9вЂ™s camera is probably one of the biggest departures for HTC in the past few years.

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