When we talk about taking photos and videos, we instantly use our smartphones and camera to capture those moments. Its easy to click photos? Or to capture videos? Yeah! But behind all this lies a whole process of how the camera works. It is the results of years by which we reached in such a stage. There are smartphones which are raising bar of photography now and then. We shall try to understand more about in this post.
Camera in Mobile phone
There is a lot of argument on which was the first camera phone but Wikipedia says that Sharp J-SH04(2000) was the first phone have camera. Sadly I am unable to confirm this. Do let me know if anyone of you get any solid prove on this matter. Then there was a wave of camera phones from companies.
Well there were phones from Nokia, Samsung, Sony and others which took camera phone to next level. Some of the popular phones of that era was Nokia N90, Sony Ericson K800i and LG KU990 Viewty. In 2007, Nokia N95 took the market with its 5MP Carl Zeiss Optics. It also had the capability to shoot 30fps videos. About this time also came iPhone. It consists of 2MP camera. But it was more appreciated because of touch responsive screen. It was a turning point for mobile industry.
Samsung was first to introduce a 8 MP phone. Slowly slider and keypad phones become less popular and smartphones took their place. In 2010, iPhone 4 was admired to have a front facing camera which later popularised the selfie trend. Nokia brought the 808 Pureview and later Lumia 1020 which were industry first to have 41 MP cameras. Dual rear camera trend also started. HTC Evo 3d was first to have this tech. Secondary camera sensor was used only for depth sensing. But it was a failure. Others also tried, but it was until iPhone 7 Plus which commercialised the concept of dual camera. Soon there was a trend of having dual cameras. There was selfie oriented phones which focused more on front camera then rear. Examples include Oppo F3 Plus, Vivo V5, etc.
There were triple camera phones(first is Huawei P20 Pro) and some months back we had a quad camera setup from Samsung in A9. We have seen different reasons for that. Other cameras are used for depth sensing, image saturation, wide angle, telephoto and more detail. These camera phones have raised the bar for even modern cameras. Even Google Pixel phones has been appreciated for their awesome camera. The Google Camera app used in Pixel is consisting of excellent algorithms for photography. Companies are now implementing AI scene detection and other technology which have reinvented photography.
Came 2019, and we are now seeing more interesting form of camera implementation in smartphones. Whether it be the Nokia 9 with the world's first penta-lens setup or others list of vendors including Xiaomi, Honor, Oppo, etc offering 48 MP camera in their smartphones ; 2019 is going to be important year for smart photography .
Conclusion
This was all about how camera were reinvented in phones. We started from zero to an unexpected level of innovation that has totally changed our lives. I want to thanks all those people who have made this possible. This is what I feel and I think that this is just a beginning. A lot is yet to come. So stay tuned for more.😆😆
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