Although the iPhone 15 is still a long way off, rumors continue to come in. Now we’re hearing about the camera, which could gain a new “state-of-the-art image sensor” from Sony.
According to Nikkei Asia, Sony’s new image sensor “roughly doubles the saturation signal level in each pixel compared with conventional sensors.” As the publication explains, this means that the sensors can “capture more light and reduce overexposure or underexposure in certain settings, enabling a smartphone camera to clearly photograph a person’s face even if the subject is standing against a strong backlight.”
Nikkei Asia says Sony made the sensor using “a new semiconductor architecture which places photodiodes and transistors in separate substrate layers, allowing the sensor to add more photodiodes to the dedicated layer.”
The new sensor is expected to produce better photos in harsh lighting conditions, particularly nighttime shots. Apple has made significant advances in low light photography over the past few years, mostly thanks to its software and computational side. This sensor could provide a huge boost to the iPhone’s ability to take shots in challenging lights, and coupled with the rumors of an advanced telephoto lens in the iPhone 15 ProThis could make photography leaps and bounds.
