Sony is preparing a camera sensor for its newest cellphone which will be named IMX866, the successor to the IMX766 which is Sony's flagship camera sensor for now.
The sensor from the 800 series will also be used in the ranks of flagship phones like its predecessors used in OnePlus and Oppo, which uses these two sensors in the Find X5 Pro.
The IMX866 is expected to be bigger than the IMX766, but with the same 50MP resolution. The sensor dimensions make the pixel size also larger, so it can capture more light.
Then according to Digital Chat Station, the biggest difference between IMX866 and IMX766 is in the red-green-blue-white (RGBW) pixel matrix formation used. Not the red, green, and blue in the IMX766.
The additional white pixels used can reportedly improve light collection and better color accuracy, of course if you use the right photography computational algorithms.
But the most interesting feature of the IMX866 is likely to be called 'dual-frame technology', which is capable of supporting two image ratios at once. The first ratio is 16:11 which is used for video recording, which uses a 1/1.49" wide sensor.
Then for photos, the ratio used will return to 4:3, but it has not been revealed the size of the sensor used in this ratio. For information, the IMX766 has a sensor size of 1/1.56 "as quoted by us from Phone Arena, Tuesday (12/4/2022).
Reportedly, the IMX866 will be used on the Vivo X80 and also a variant of the Xiaomi 12 in the near future. So far, the only phones that use IMX766 are the Xiaomi 12, Oppo Find X3 Pro, and Find X5 Pro, whose main camera uses this sensor.
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