Sony presents the world's highest resolution image sensor for phone cameras

Sonny's sarfone division continues to turn into unaffordable performance, but the company remains the leader in the market for image sensors. Its latest design, IMX586, promises a major step in the quality of the image by dramatically increasing resolution to 48 megapixels effective (8000,5006000), which Sony says is counting [...]
The quality of the image is not simply a matter to trigger more megapiksels-it may be against productive with the smallest pixels leading to noisy photographs in low light.
The 0.5 microns used in this sensor will be the smallest on the market.












