Sony Likely to Provide Front-Facing Camera Sensors for Future iPhone

They make a mediocre line up of digicams. The Alpha DSLRs are only catching up to par with Nikon and Canon offerings.

Sorry, but this is complete BS.

1, the NEX series, while not having the best lens lineup (compared to that of micro 4/3, Canon or Nikon), have the best IQ, mostly thanks to their sensors. No wonder even Olympus, who previously licensed Pana sensors, have silently switched to the much superior Sony ones on the OM-D in 2012. And Nikon have always used Sony in their DSLR’s. No wonder they (Nikon) have the best DSRL’s out there, consistently outperforming Canon. The latter, as I’ve pointed out above, still stick with their inferior sensor tech – this is why they just can’t deliver as good DR as cameras based on Sony’s sensor tech.

2, their old, true DSLR’s, particularly the fullframe A900/A920, were class leading too, IQ-wise. They were in no way worse than comparable Nikon / Canon fullframe offerings of the time.

3, they have some excellent PS cameras like the RX 100 (Mk II), which is only (somewhat) let down by the lens softness when wide open and at 28 mm equiv.

4, it’s only their

a, SLT series that have somewhat more noise than the best of the competition but that’s understandable beacuse of the mirror. (No wonder SLT cameras are being phased out by Sony.)

b, high-megapixel compacts like the entire HX series that REALLY suck. But the latter has always been known and no sensible people would have ever gone for a HX-series Sony camera with much better-quality, albeit less featureful, offerings available.

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You vaguely make the case that all of those features are beneficial, yet, these are just design decisions that require protruding camera modules, slow shot to shot times, post processing, and so far poor user experiences.

Yes, I’ve explicitly emphasized in anotehr post I wouldn’t want to see Sony’s 20 Mpixel sensor in an iPhone for exactly the same reason: it’ll slow it down.

The 5s has class-leading burst shooting rate. No wonder both the 20 Mpixel Sony Z1 and the even-higher megapixel Nokia offerings (1020, 808) can’t come close to it. With the current tech, high megapixel means slow operation.

I’m surprised that Nokia, nee, MS hasn’t plans to shift to a more mainstream camera module approach for their flagship smartphones. Seems like an obvious dead end to be pursuing for some small number of sales.

Nokia has low sales not because of their camera’s problems but because of their OS. A 808, a 1020 or a 1520 running Android would have sold tens of millions.

Sony Likely to Provide Front-Facing Camera Sensors for Future iPhone