“Apple’s iPhone supply chain has sprung yet another leak,” Nathanael Arnold reports for Wall St. Cheat Sheet. “The latest leaked image comes courtesy of the French website Nowhereelse.fr and purports to show the camera component for the upcoming iPhone 5S.”
“Steve Hemmerstoffer at Nowhereelse.fr claims to have obtained the image from ‘the catalog of a [Chinese] retailer who sells it as component replacement / repair for the future successor to the current iPhone 5,’ Arnold reports. “Hemmerstoffer points out that ‘unlike the iPhone 5, the camera and flash are connected by a single sheet.’ This suggests the camera module depicted in the image is intended for the iPhone 5S which — according to previous rumors — will feature a dual LED flash component that is independent of the camera module.”
Arnold reports, “The dual LED flash will enable the next-generation iPhone to take better photographs in low-light environments.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JES42” for the heads up.]
NEWS FLASH!
Study shows adding more light makes it easier to take photos in the dark!
Should help to nullify one of those Nokia adverts concentrating on one of its few advantages.
There was a parody Nokia ad that had shown supposedly how lousy the iPhone 5 was at taking pictures in low light compared to Nokia’s latest smartphone. A dual flash on the iPhone will certainly help put it somewhat on par with Nokia’s finest Lumia 925 super-camera smartphone when shooting in the dark. I’m sure the Lumia’s camera probably has more pixels, though. Nokia is crazy about having high-pixel counts on their cameras.
Flashes only help in low-light situations when the subject matter is very close. Even pro flashes cannot adequately illuminate distant objects.
In general, you need larger (and/or more sensitive) detector pixels if you want to improve low-light performance. Increasing the number of pixels for a given detector size is counterproductive to this objective. Increasing detector gain to compensate for low levels of illumination also amplifies noise. Physically larger detectors enable larger pixels that capture more photons for a given aperture and shutter speed. This is why DSLR cameras perform better than lower-cost point-and-shoot consumer cameras, and why point-and-shoot cameras generally perform better than the ultra-compact camera modules embedded in cell phones. I once had a cell phone with a larger camera (like the new Nokia phone, but with far fewer pixels). It did outperform other cell phone cameras of its time, but at the expense of added weight and bulk (also like the new Nokia phone). Nokia somewhat offset the advantages of its larger detector by greatly increasing the number of pixels (41M). I don’t think that was a great decision. If you want that many pixels, then it would make more sense to go with a professional DSLR with much better optics and other benefits.
Frankly, I am impressed at the image quality provided by the current high-end cell phone cameras. They are far better than the professional digital cameras of the 1990s. The pace of technological development never ceases to amaze me. These tiny cell phone camera modules are truly impressive, especially considering their cost.
If so, thankfully, the best cameras don’t always have the most pixels. Not discounting this, pixel count does not a camera make.
Remember that iPad cover with the translucent Apple logo on the back? What if Apple made the logos on both the iPhone 5S and new iPads light up as a secondary camera flash? Man that’d be awesome.
Cool idea. Not sure if it is practical.
Yes, and the flash glint in the eyes would be Apple shaped!
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