According to the latest report, Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro phone may provide sharper images, thanks to a sizable sensor and smaller individual pixels. Weibo blogger @touchyu8 recently released a series of camera technical specifications for a certain device, which is considered to be the camera configuration of the iPhone 14 Pro.
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The device will feature a 48-megapixel camera. Due to the increased megapixel count, the iPhone 14 Pro’s wide-angle camera will have a smaller single pixel, said to measure 1.22µm. Compared to the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, a single pixel is reduced by 0.68µm.
Moreover, the sensor is believed to be a Sony custom, just like the iPhone 13 Pro. Despite the change in individual pixel size, the iPhone 14 Pro is said to feature the same phase-phase autofocus (DPAF) system, dubbed “focus pixel” by Apple, that has been available on iPhones since the iPhone 6 in 2014, and features the ability to record 16:9 HDR video at up to 60fps.
Furthermore, the device’s sensor size is said to be 1/1.3-inch, a 21.2 percent increase over the 1/1.65-inch sensor on the wide-angle camera on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max. The increase in sensor size requires a larger lens to capture more light, resulting in a significantly larger rear camera array. The 1/1.3-inch sensor is the same size as Samsung’s 50-megapixel GN1 sensor, which is used on Google’s Pixel 6 phones.
Overall, this information suggests that the iPhone 14 Pro will deliver larger, higher-resolution images with finer details, but the risk is that low-light performance may be worse and images are more susceptible to noise. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has previously said he thinks the camera quality of the iPhone 14 Pro models will “elevate mobile camera photography to a new level.”
