Sony’s long-awaited entry into the 200MP smartphone camera game is finally here. The new Lytia 901 sensor has been made official today, and it will go head-to-head with Samsung’s 200MP offerings.
Sony’s sensor is 1/1.12″ type, with a 14.287 mm diagonal. It’s billed to achieve “high-definition image quality” even with 4x in-sensor zoom. It has a pixel size of 0.7 μm. It employs a Quad-Quad Bayer Coding (QQBC) array with 4×4 adjacent pixels being clustered with filters of the same color. The signals of the 16 pixels are processed as a single unit shooting at 12.5MP.
With in-sensor zoom, remosaicing reverts the clustered pixels to a normal array. This is AI-enhanced by a special processing circuit mounted inside the sensor, which is an industry-first. Sony promises “superior reproduction of details such as fine patterns and letters”, as well as “high-speed processing and up to 30fps high-quality video capture when shooting with up to 4x zoom in 4K”.
You also get high dynamic range and tonal expressions across the entire zoom range up to 4x thanks to DCG-HDR and Fine12bit ADC tech, the latter improving quantization bit depth from the conventional 10 bits to 12. And with Hybrid Frame HDR (HF-HDR), you get over 100dB of high dynamic range performance in the QQBC mode. Expect significantly suppressed highlight blowouts in bright areas, as well as blackouts in dark areas, for images “that more closely resemble what the human eye actually sees”.
The sensor supports video capture at 8K30fps and 4K120fps, as well as 60fps burst shooting at 12.5MP, 30fps at 50MP, and 10fps at 200MP. According to past rumors, the Lytia 901 will be adopted by Oppo for the Find X9 Ultra and vivo for the X300 Ultra, and we’re sure other makers will use it as well. The sensor is shipping to device makers this month.
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