Samsung unveiled its 200MP ISCOCELL HP1 camera sensor in September last year, but we haven’t seen a device with the huge sensor yet. That may change in July with a Motorola phone on the way, and Samsung has released a video detailing the sensor’s capabilities.
The goal of the video is to show the amount of detail the HP1 sensor can preserve. While no phone was used to demonstrate the new sensor, we saw it attached to a Frankenstein rig complete with a test card, external display, and additional lens that allowed a group of Samsung engineers to capture some detailed cat photos.
The last 200 MP were then printed on an industrial printer. The final result? A 28 x 22 meter canvas consisting of twelve separate 2.3 meter long pieces that were sewn together and hung on a building. The actual photo was tweaked and adjusted by the behind-the-scenes photographers, of course. The big advantage is that you can zoom and crop images without losing detail.
ISOCELL HP1 pixel binning
Samsung’s HP1 sensor offers an all-new pixel binning technology called ChamelonCell that can group up to sixteen pixels in various resolutions ranging from 12.5MP stills with a 2.56μm pixel pitch to 50MP stills (1.28μm pixels) or natively 200MP (0.64μm pixels) depending on your needs.
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