Sony might not be as big of a smartphone brand as it used to be years ago but the company is still making premium phones with some of the best camera features and now the Japanese company is hinting at further improvements.
A new report coming from Nikkei indicates that Sony believes its breakthrough technologies will see smartphones match and even overtake the capabilities of DSLR and mirrorless cameras in a couple of years.
Terushi Shimizu, President and CEO of Sony Semiconductor Solutions (SSS) said during a recent briefing that “still images will exceed the image quality of single-lens reflex cameras within the next few years.” A presentation during the briefing points to 2024 as the timeline where Sony sees that smartphones could exceed ILC image quality.
It will be interesting to see how Sony manages to live up to this claim. The company has already launched Xperia Pro I with a 1-inch 20MP camera sensor but the premium smartphones from the brand typically use a 12MP sensor due to distance constraints between the lens and sensor.
But, even if the camera sensors for smartphones can’t become big to rival APS-C cameras, smaller sensors will be able to capture much more light in the near future. While it is not known when exactly will this happen for smartphones but the technology has already appeared in Sony’s flagship mirrorless cameras.
The company also talks about the growth in the AI processing capabilities that pushes the boundaries of multi-frame HDR, longer-range zoom, and higher-quality video recording.
There has not been a major development in terms of camera technology for the past few integrations of smartphone cameras, which is mostly because the companies have reached the saturation point. But it will be interesting to see how the camera technology for smartphones keeps pushing the boundaries.
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