- Apple’s powerful image processing ensures superior photo quality.
iPhone Vs Android Camera: While buying a smartphone, most people decide by looking at the megapixel number of the camera. On one hand, iPhone has a 48MP camera while many Android smartphones boast of 108MP camera. At first glance 108MP seems better but the reality is quite different from this. The quality of the camera does not depend only on the megapixels, but the technology behind it and photo processing also plays a big role.
More megapixel camera is not always better
In the last few years, smartphone companies have made megapixels the biggest feature of the camera. The message is given to the customers that the more megapixels the camera will be, the better it will be.
But the actual quality of the photo also depends on many other factors like sensor size, image processing, dynamic range and low-light performance. This is the reason why just having 108MP written on it does not automatically make a camera better.
Despite having a 108MP camera, why are photos often taken in 12MP?
This is something that most buyers don’t know. Many Android smartphones do use 108MP sensors but in daily photography they do not take pictures at the full 108MP resolution.
A technique called pixel binning works behind this. In this process, many small pixels come together to form one big pixel, which gives a clearer photo in low light. Many phones with 108MP sensors use 9-in-1 pixel binning, after which the photo is produced at approximately 12MP resolution.
That means the camera can technically shoot 108MP but in normal use the phone produces lower resolution photos for better brightness and less noise.
iPhone’s 48MP camera works differently
Apple has provided 48MP sensor in its recent iPhone models but the way it works is quite different. The company provides around 24MP photos by default, which gives users more detail and better quality.
If someone wants more detail then he can also manually choose full 48MP mode. This means that in actual use, the iPhone often produces higher resolution images than Android phones which despite having a 108MP sensor, still produce 12MP output.
Apple’s real strength is image processing
Apple does not depend only on hardware. The company’s computational photography technology plays an important role in improving photos. Technologies like Photonic Engine and Smart HDR improve colors, shadows, skin tones and low-light details of photos. For this reason, photos taken with iPhone often appear more natural and balanced even if the megapixels are less.
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