The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra along with its other siblings is very close. After confirming that it will have a 200-megapixel camera, speaking of the photography aspect, it will have a high-end passion. Samsung has announced the ISOCELL HP2, the sensor will bring the camera of the S23 Ultra to life. confirmed Ice Universe.

Leakers have already confirmed that this terminal will mount a newer and more capable sensor, not the HP3. Given that the HP2 has 200 megapixels, was announced this week and is already in mass production, there’s little doubt whether we’ll see it in Samsung’s best phone to date.

This will be the sensor of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

The explanation used by Samsung’s vice president, JoonSeo Yim, to describe the HP2 is curious. “Our leadership comes from innovative pixel technologies that allow our sensors to go beyond pixel count and size.” The product description that exceeds the number of pixels begins, but here it all depends on the number of pixels.

We’re talking about a 200-megapixel sensor with a pixel size of 0.6 micrometers (μm), all with a 1/1.3″ sensor size, the same as what we see in 108-megapixel sensors. very very small pixelshowever, the pixel grouping technique will be dynamic to try to capture as much light as possible in any environment.

Samsung calls its technology Tetra2Pixel and now clusters can render 1.2μm pixels at 50 megapixels or 2.4μm pixels at 12.5 megapixels. It is not clear whether the phone itself will choose the pixel grouping it has determined, or whether it will be the user who has to configure one or the other.

It’s not easy to focus with such a large sensor, so Samsung has worked on a 100% Focus pixel system so that each of the 200 million pixels of the sensor can be used for this task. samsung promises fast focusing even in low light conditions. They have likewise reduced the shutter time, because one of the biggest challenges with sensor sizes is to be able to take the picture without too much delay.

Finally, in the age of computational photography, the promise of good HDR cannot be lacking. To improve this, they will use their Smart ISO Pro, a technology introduced in the S21 Ultra that lets you combine different ISO values ​​to expand the dynamic range of photos.

Samsung is trying to make the 200-megapixel S23 Ultra useful. Direct competitors like Apple have used it to: deliver a much richer and more detailed ProRAW file, also to offer optical quality 2x zoom. Beyond shooting and grouping at 200 megapixels, we’ll see to what extent the S23 Ultra can take advantage of this HP2.