HMD Global’s Nokia recently launched the Nokia 9 PureView smartphone. The phone happens to be the first in the world to pack a Penta-lens camera. The camera samples shot by the Nokia 9 PureView has shown that the array of camera lens was not just mere gimmick but the image quality was impressive. The camera setup was the result of a collaboration between HMD Global Oy and Light and it uses computational photography for fusing and delivering the final image.
A Nokia patent has been spotted which showed that Nokia had a couple of other designs it was toying with. The patent application actually reveals three different Penta-lens camera module setup onboard the Nokia 9 prototype. Two of the designs have all their camera lenses remain of the same size while on the third one, the central sensor is larger than the others. The two designs having the same lens sizes, the position of the TOF sensor also differ. It remains to be seen if Nokia will utilise the other patented designs on the successor to the Nokia 9 which is rumoured to land in Q3 2019.
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Nokia 9 PureView has five cameras and a ToF (Time of Flight) sensor. The penta-lens setup of the phone includes two 12-megapixel RGB sensors and three monochrome 12-megapixel sensors. All the five camera sensors of the Nokia 9 PureView can function simultaneously to capture a single image of 50-megapixel powered a dedicated image co-processor. Each image has 12.4 stops of dynamic range. It is a sensitivity measurement where the brightness of the image increases by twofold. With the help of the ToF sensor, the Nokia 9 PureView can capture a depth map with up to 1200 layers of depth data for up to 40 meters away from the camera. You can read more about the Nokia 9 PureView from our launch article here.
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