At the beginning of this month, Xiaomi officially unveiled the Mi 10 Ultra to great acclaim. According to the French website, the premier computer in its series currently occupies the top of the DxOMark leaderboard. It is ousting the Huawei P40 Pro as the smartphone to beat.
Xiaomi has torn the Mi 10 Ultra down and now it’s gone through the specifics of the cameras it used in its new flagship.
According to the company, the primary camera is a 48 MP and 1/1.32-inch sensor. This camera has an 8P lens, which the company included in the Mi Note 10 Pro last year. Still, 8P lenses remain rarities in smartphone cameras.
Additional lenses do not automatically improve image quality but may minimize image errors, though at the expense of additional costs and complexity.
The 48 MP sensor also supports dual-native ISO, theoretically reducing low-light image noise without having to resort to software tricks.
In addition, the sensor can directly generate HDR images by merging photos with different exposure times. The Mi 10 Ultra, however, blends these images at a more granular level than other smartphones do, usually combining three full photos together. This will, in practice, allow it to capture moving objects more accurately with HDR mode enabled.
The sensor-based HDR processing also gives the Mi 10 Ultra the bragging rights of being the first smartphone that can record HDR10 videos.
A New Sensor in Mi 10
For the Mi 10 Ultra’s telephoto camera, Xiaomi relied on the IMX586. But, it encountered problems using the sensor this way.
The sensor measures 1/2.32-inches which is much larger than the typical camera sensors for smartphones. Xiaomi cut down the IMX586 with a D-cut lens. But then, several iterations were required to address the problems D-cut lenses present to OIS.
The ultra-wide-angle camera finally has a field of view of 128°, which is broader than other ultra-wide cameras; even in high-end smartphones. Instead of using the 6P lens design of many ultra-wide-angle cameras Xiaomi has used a new 7P lens here.
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