http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/ Engadget Comments for OmniVision brings RAW shooting to mobiles with new 5 megapixel sensor http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/+1, sir.

The iPhone is going to fall far behind unless they include something like this, a 720p amoled, and some sort of hdmi/displayport/hd audio out. Call it the iPhone HD. Or they if they could pull off light peak by then (unlikely) it could do any/all of those things. But then it still won't have a fucking micro sd slot. But it will have a micro sim! (useless innovation.)]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/
How does it help to have RAW files if the image quality is still limited by such tiny lenses?]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/
Yeah , but until now there was no reason to use bigger lenses because the sensor is minuscule anyway.
Now maybe someone will put bigger lenses and maybe optical zoom on our next phones; or maybe Nikon , Canon & C. will add phone capabilities to their DSLRs, after all the touch screens are already there.
The viewfinder could double as BT headset and around the lens there would even be place for a retro rotary dialer.
I bet they would sell like hotcakes.
Or maybe not?]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/
It's meaningless. 99% of DSLR users don't take advantage of RAW. Camera phones-- there's no point. It's a gimmick meant to fool the less technically savvy. Real improvements in optics are what's needed for camera phones, not useless gimmicks.]]>Feb 15th 2010 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Actually, tiny lenses are easy and cheap to grind accurately, so the optical quality is already excellent.
...But they dont let in much light, so this is a definite improvement in quality. (can do pixel binning to double the low-light sensitivity)


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I agree. This might be nice for cheap digicams but on a phone, do you really want to do extensive photo editing? The video modes sound useful.]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/
I think that improving the lenses is a way higher priority than adding a chip that gives me the option to fill up my SD card 10 times faster.]]>Feb 15th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/
Some people try really hard to be hated and you are one of them]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/This news doesnt have anything to do with iphone and yet its name comes up even if the news is about f****** refrigerator.
Not every technology is about to be used in iphone, get over it. Im sure ur iphone 4g will come with a 3 mp, no autofocus camera.

Just stop mentioning its name or ill throw up on the screen]]>Feb 15th 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/
Then comes several processing algorithms (de-mosaicing, white balance, gamma, color correction...) to transform it to a viewable image.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that this one sensor brings more raw-shooting abilities than any other CCD or CMOS sensor.
Mostly because that's software-related.]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/you're right curio.

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Thus, this 5MP sensor is distinguished by it's ability to do what every other sensor is able to do? Wow.

The other thing about RAW is that it takes a lot more storage space and then has to be processed later to give you finished photos. How many people are going to do this on a cell phone camera?

Next, it's completely up to the handset or camera maker to decide whether to implement RAW file availability to the end user. They of course could do this now with any handset if they saw a demand for that, which they unfortunately don't.]]>Feb 15th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/
Also, it is curious that Raw is 'new'. Maybe earlier chips automatically threw out data to compress the image before sending it to the main CPU?

The light sensitivity is probably the bigger news here.]]>Feb 15th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/RAW??
10 x bandwidth going to the SD card

Am I shooting a wedding with this phone or something?

Low light and larger sensor is allll that matters, and THANK YOU for it. Forget the larger RAW files. People with DSL-R's rarely even use the setting. ]]>Feb 15th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/omnivision-brings-raw-shooting-to-mobiles-with-new-5-megapixel-s/Feb 15th 2010 11:53PM