iPhone 7 Camera Compared with Samsung Galaxy S7 Camera

iPhone 7 Camera Compared with Samsung Galaxy S7 Camera

The iPhone 6s received a major camera upgrade over the iPhone 6—getting a 12MP rear camera and 5MP front one. Don’t expect any megapixel boosts in the iPhone 7 since Apple usually holds the MP-rating for a few years. However, year-on-year Apple has consistently tweaked other parts of the camera setup to incrementally improve imaging performance, and that's not something we expect it to stop.

Expect wider apertures, larger pixel sizes, and more complex sensors with higher-quality lenses inside the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. One rumoured feature though is the introduction of optical image stabilisation (OIS) to the base iPhone 7 model. 

Apple is also apparently linked with LG for its camera components. Sony was originally tasked with supplying Apple with its camera units, but apparently it cannot fulfil its orders so Apple is looking elsewhere for the shortfall.

LG is apparently building some -- if not all -- the dual-lens camera units for Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus handsets. The LG G5’s camera is bloody superb, easily one of the handset’s biggest USPs, so the introduction of this technology inside the iPhone is certainly a huge deal for Apple fans.

Apple has a solid track record with its camera technology and it will definitely be interesting to see what its engineers come up with in this context. The unit will not be a straight swap, however, and Apple will tinker with the overall design, implementation and specs of the camera.

Apple even has a patent for how the software will work. 

The patent application shows a dual-lens camera interface aboard an iPhone, complete with diagrams and annotations. The patent shows a dual-camera system that consists of one standard wide-angle lens and a second telephoto lens that are capable of capturing zoomed-in video and photos at the same time.

Both can be used together simultaneously and users will be able to merge images together in “unique” ways.

“As described by Apple, images from both lenses can be displayed on the same screen in the Camera app through a split-screen view that shows a standard wide-angle image on one side and the zoomed image on the other side,” notes MacRumors. “When capturing a video or a photo, users are able to transition between both lenses seamlessly, tapping on a spot in the photo to zoom in with a second lens. Apple's system would work similarly to digital zoom does today, but because it's using a lens with a longer focal length instead of zooming in through software, there's no loss of detail and the zoomed in image is much more crisp and clear.”

Samsung has made some big changes to the Galaxy S7 camera. For one thing, the megapixel rating has actually gone DOWN to 12MP, but this is a deliberate choice and Samsung is instead focusing on other areas of the hardware to improve image quality. Things like a wider f/1.7 aperture, a larger 1.4um pixel size, and the world's first dual-pixel sensor with 100% phase detection autofocus. Correspondents at MWC are raving about this new camera setup, and the low-light performance as well as focusing speed is reportedly quite remarkable. To read further follow this link http://www.knowyourmobile.com