The Mi 10 Ultra ditched the Mi 10 Pro's 108 MP Samsung sensor in favor of an OmniVision sensor - Why?

[Redaktion]

While the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro both use the same 108 MP Samsung ISOCELL Bright HMX sensor, the new, improved Mi 10 Ultra sports a lower-res 48 MP sensor made by...OmniVision. There are reasons for that, of course.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Mi-10-Ultra-ditched-the-Mi-10-Pro-s-108-MP-Samsung-sensor-in-favor-of-an-OmniVision-sensor-Why.487512.0.html

[RinzImpulse]

It's not a new sensor though. The Mi 10 Lite is using the sensor first

[Ricci Rox]

It's not a new sensor though. The Mi 10 Lite is using the sensor first

The Mi 10 Lite uses the much worse OV48B. The Mi 10 Ultra uses the OV48C.

[Lucian]

You forgot one thing: This is NOT a quad-bayer sensor. It's a native 48MP sensor. You can actually shoot usable 8K video and have 48MP worth of details (in good light that is).

[S.Yu]

>While the 108 MP HMX has a 1/1.33-inch physical size
It's called Type 1/1.33", and strictly in that manner. The word "inch" is even avoided to prevent confusion. I think I mentioned here that these "inch" based sensor sizes are derived from ancient video tubes and do not directly suggest anything about the actual physical sizes of the sensors, other than their diagonal being smaller than the length denoted. There's nothing about that HMX that physically measures 1/1.33 inches.

[Home]

The sensor size must be wrong . The resolution cut to less than half but the pixel size only increase by 50% ? This indicate the sensor is actually smaller than Samsung sensor .

[vrvly]

And they end up with pattern destroying processing too. Where are 150mp's?

[Typos1]

You forgot one thing: This is NOT a quad-bayer sensor. It's a native 48MP sensor. You can actually shoot usable 8K video and have 48MP worth of details (in good light that is).

According to Omnivision's website, the OV48C IS quad Bayer, it does use pixel binning  .