Samsung announces the 16MP & 13MP ISOCELL CMOS Image sensors

16MP ISOCELL CMOS Image Sensor

Other deep (since these are things you do not see from the outside of a device) things that Samsung has announced in Barcelona is their ISOCELL image sensors. If you have read this article by me then you can stop reading now and proceed to other Samsung news within this blog. Or you can continue.

Samsung has announced their 13MP and 16MP ISOCELL CMOS image sensors. Samsung's ISOCELL technology increases the sensor's light sensitivity and effectively controls the collection of electrons (that is what their official announcement said).

13MP ISOCELL CMOS Image Sensor

That increase of light and a more controlled collection of electrons results in a vivid photo every time you take a shot and that is even when you are in a  situation where light is poor. This, personally, is a step forward for Samsung since they, admittedly, lack the "ahh" "ohh" factor of the cameras they have on their devices. I do hope though that they also put these into more and more of their upcoming 2014 devices. 

"By incorporating ISOCELL, the image sensor will have 30 percent decrease in crosstalk; 30 percent increase in full well capacity; and 20 percent wider chief ray angle. Using the new technology with 1.12µm ISOCELL pixels, Samsung is introducing two new CMOS image sensors —16 and 13Mpixel."

The 16MP sensor allows shooters to get a wider vieweing experience to users since it incorporates the 16:9 aspect ratio which allows a "full-size, high-resolution images and video to be displayed on screen without field-of-view (FOV) loss ."

The Galaxy S 5 already has this sensor, specifically the 16MP, and is scheduled by Samsung to be mass produced (and sold to other OEMs) by the first quarter of this year.The 13MP on the other hand, is scheduled to be mass produced by the second quarter of the year.