The new iPhone 4S camera uses a Sony sensor.
I guess you all know that the most used camera of the world is actually a phone, the iPhone! And the new iPhone 4S uses a new back illuminated 8 Megapixel Sony sensor. The confirmation comes via Chipworks.com (Click here). That’s a huge business for Sony and again a prof that Sony is currently producing the best sensors on market (like the Sony NEX-5n 16 Megapixel sensor). I can’t wait to see how good the new fullframe sensor is. We only have to wait a couple of months to see it 
And her eis one more Sony sensor news: Ziptronix bonds with Sony to provide its oxide bonding technology for backside illumination imaging sensors (eetimes.com).
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Comment from acolyte: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10...
Comment from Garreth: So speaking of the full frame sensor... ...
Kervs
8 months ago |looks like [nearly] everybody’s favorite phone has got a Sony inside of them. It should be interesting when people start to use their iphone for more than casual snaps of their Starbucks orders and have them published on the web
Engineer
8 months ago |One of the very interesting things about this camera is, since the iPhone has a built in gyroscope and accelerometer, the phone uses the larger sensor area to dynamically stabilize video shooting. HD is a 2MP image, so it just changes what part of the sensor it pulls the image out of, based on how the phone is moving and how the image looks compared to previous frames.
The sensor actually delvers the full 8MB at 30FPS for the phones CPU to process…. the phones CPU has a dedicated co-processor just for this.
This is probably, excluding the size of the sensor and the quality of lens, the best camera on the market. The other cameras have crap for processing (BOINZ is a joke, really) and they rarely have the ability to pull a video image off of any part of the sensor they want.
David
8 months ago |Yeah that image stabilising looks great!
Isn’t that what the a77 does? It uses software stabilising rather than sensor shifting.
Peck
8 months ago |I thought this was Sony_ALPHA_RUMORS.
You’re one for three.
acolyte
8 months ago |With the flooding in Thailand, there may be less rumors out there
:p
ChenAlan
8 months ago |Nothing new here…
I use a Sony Ericsson Neo which came out last March which is the first cellphone to use the camera (8 mpx F/2.4) together with the Sony Ericsson Arc.
David Grano-De-Oro
8 months ago |Why aren’t back illuminated CMOS sensors used in DSLRs? I currently shoot with a Fuji HS10 and its sensor is back illuminated giving it a huge edge over other cameras of its caliber. Adding this tech to DSLRs can only be a benefit. Imagine if the A77 had this tech it would then far surpass the 5N in high ISO
Clyde
8 months ago |Can I get an LAEA-3 adapter to put my Maxxum glass on there?
extra|ordinary
8 months ago |Thats it! I’m selling my sony alpha gear and jumping ship to apple.
Hahaha…joking of coarse.
Dave Cox
8 months ago |I bet the iPhone 4S is crap over 1600 ISO
Zstan
8 months ago |Sounds familiar. I thought people are raging that the 24megapixels sensor sucks over iso1600 as well?
ChenAlan
8 months ago |That assumes Apple even ALLOWED their customers to adjust the ISO.
acolyte
8 months ago |+1
Simplicity needs lack of functionality.
More options = less functionality.
666
8 months ago |I think Sony finally found its real place in photography.
poke
8 months ago |Are we really going to here about the new full frame in the next couple months. Now I am really excited. Can I preorder?
pancanikonpus
8 months ago |Kodak going to chapter 11. all imaging companies buying ‘senor’ from Sony. Omgeeeeezeness! What will happen in future imaging world. All sensors powered by Sony, Canon and Samsung
like iOS vs Adroid vs WP
Doraemon
8 months ago |What about the lens? Carl Zeiss? Or some cheap lens?
emopunk
8 months ago |I also wonder what happened to the lens rumors we were supposed to hear in the last weeks. What went wrong Andrea? No trustable rumors yet?
march
8 months ago |no interesting for this.. i want know more new firmware about A77 !!
Edgars
8 months ago |Before in some sources was info that Sony does not have enough capacity for so huge amount of iPhone sensors, therefore it will produce only part of sensors, but other part will come from Omnivision.
http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/
albin
8 months ago |wait what? FF in two months??
oh yea!
Daniel
8 months ago |They updates the lens from a 4 element design to a 5 element design – also a new infrared filter is added – and new maximal arperture is 2.4.
The camera (together with the new sensor) is a really improvement!
The image quality is much better in the iPhone 4S than in the iPhone 4.
Believe me – we (my wife and i) have both!
Dieselhead
8 months ago |I think you should check out this article that says the sensor used is NOT a Sony its Omnivision’s OV8830 sensor
http://www.eoshd.com/content/4362/iphone-4s-camera-sensor-actually-capable-of-4k-24p-video
acolyte
8 months ago |http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-14/omnivision-falls-as-website-sees-sony-sensor-in-apple-iphone.html
Business world is scary!!!
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/10/06/omnivision-jp-morgan-sees-iphone-4s-win/
For now, track the news. This is not just our ramblings. It’s an actual ongoing debate involving millions of dollars.
Garreth
8 months ago |So speaking of the full frame sensor… Rumour has it the Canon 1D Mark V will be announced on Oct 18th and the Nikon d800 on Oct 26th… No release date for the a99/a88? Or price?