HTC One, which was released by HTC in London and New York at the same time on February 20 (Beijing time), has become the most eye-catching focus in the mobile phone industry. When it comes to the 430W main camera of the new HTC One, many people are shocked. Why does HTC play retro and use the 430W camera instead in this period when the megapixel began to be popular?
Ultrapixel technology
Let's get to know this Ultrapixel camera developed by HTC.
The camera equipped with the new HTC One is 430W pixels, and the size of the sensing element is 1/3 inch. Each pixel can reach the size of 2 µ m pixels, while the general 1300W pixel camera is only 1.1 µ m pixels. The sensitivity of the new HTC One will be 300% higher than that of the ordinary mobile phone camera. In the same sensor size, the denser the pixels are, the more information is captured and the finer the picture is.
In addition, there are 28mm wide-angle, f/2.0 large aperture lenses and OIS similar to Lumia920, which provide dual axis 2000Hz anti shake technology. However, although there is anti shake, it is necessary to keep your hands and feet stable when shooting.
In addition, the flash lamp also provides five levels of intelligent flash with different intensities and intensities, which will make flash compensation of appropriate brightness according to the size and distance of the subject.
There is also an independent chip to handle the HDR function separately, so the new HTC One can support HDR on hardware, and can also use HDR to record video. It can shoot 1080P/30 frames of video. If the resolution is reduced to 720P, it can also shoot 60 frames of video. The 60 frame video will have a very smooth performance. Even when editing the video, you can slow down the playback speed to achieve a slow shot playback effect.
By the way, the front camera is 2.1 million pixels, f/2.0 and 88 degrees wide angle, and can shoot 1080p video recording. It also supports HDR function.
As for the UltraPixel technology that the new HTC One has been talking about, the news on the Internet is that the camera captures three primary color layers of red, green and blue and combines them together. Its pixels are larger than ordinary lenses, with more information and finer picture. But I prefer UltraPixel, which is similar to Nokia Pureview. At the beginning, Nokia considered adding optical zoom in order to enable better zoom effect on mobile phones, but later had to give up because of the large size. Then he decided to use new technology to make digital zoom comparable to optical zoom. Finally, the Nokia 808 with Pureview technology and 4100W pixels appeared.
The core part of PureView technology is to "condense" an image of 41 million pixels to an image of 5 million pixels, which is the "oversampling" process. In the actual process, every eight pixels will be integrated into a "super pixel", which means that, under the same conditions, The light of the same intensity will shine on the pixel points much larger than that of the general 5 million pixel sensor after entering the lens. Therefore, the noise of the mobile phone lens using PureView technology in low light conditions will be greatly reduced, and the imaging quality will be greatly improved. Because 808 uses concentrated pixels to shoot, it can achieve amazing lossless digital zoom when it implements digital zoom (because the pixels after 808 digital zoom are ordinary pixels instead of being magnified in ordinary pixels).
According to the popular saying, UltraPixel is the superposition of three layers of 430W pixels, and then there is a popular saying that "shooting three layers together". In my opinion, this is the PureView technology similar to the Nokia 808, which condenses pixels together. The simple understanding is to condense certain pixels (1300W in my guess) to 430W pixels through UltraPixel technology, that is, each ultimate pixel is composed of three ordinary pixels, so the pixels are larger and the amount of light input is more.
In addition, UltraPixel also provides 360 ° panoramic shooting and the removal of unwanted objects that accidentally break through the lens.
ZOE analysis
ZOE can be said to be a new photographic experience. It will take twenty clear pictures and record a short film of 1080P and 3 seconds in length when you press the shutter. In the gallery, each preview image will be "live", a bit like Harry Potter's magic album.
The new HTC One also has a built-in editor, which can combine these short videos together, and has a variety of background music and switching scenes.
Comments on the new HTC One sample
Here, I publish the HTC One samples found on the Internet (domestic and foreign media). The image quality of these samples is very good. In dark environments, it is very difficult to maintain a low ISO and a relatively fast shutter speed.
The above three photos are all photos shared by foreign media found on Twitter. We can see that the image is still very sharp, the picture is clear, the conference environment is dark, and the imaging effect is still very good.
The next two are from Tencent's "Tencent Digital" channel. Xiao Bian believes that this dance performance is deliberately using such dark lights, and then testing the image of the dark environment for the reporters on the scene.
The fact has proved that the imaging effect is quite good. In the case of low ISO, the shutter speed can still be 1/100 second. I believe that the reporter only used automatic effect to shoot this sample. Generally, when the mobile phone is in a dark environment, in order to ensure that there are enough shutters, it will raise the ISO. However, in the case of low ISO and high shutter, the picture can still have this brightness. "The sensitivity is 300% of that of an ordinary camera" seems not a lie.
So the 430W camera used by HTC One this time can definitely compete with the current ordinary 800W or even 1300W in terms of overall imaging, but it may suffer from the loss in capturing the details of the picture. After all, it is only 430W, but many times we do not need to zoom in to view the picture. In terms of picture performance, the new HTC One is definitely worth looking forward to.
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