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In the past, it was not easy to take a photo, but nowadays, people can record the moments in life with only their mobile phones.
Starting with the first mobile phone with a camera on the Sharp J-SH04, mobile phones have entered the era of mobile phone images that can be recorded anytime and anywhere. In the next 20 years, the image functions of mobile phones have become more and more powerful and richer and richer.
Especially after 2010, smart phones began to become popular, and the image function also took advantage of this shareholder’s popularity. The organic combination of mobile phone cameras and social apps has developed more violently.
Today we will talk about some of the mobile phones that impressed consumers in the history of mobile phone imaging.
Sharp J-SH04: The first mobile phone with a camera
Sharp J-SH04 is the world’s first mobile phone capable of camera, which was officially released in October 2000.
Japanese mobile operator j-phone and Sharp jointly launched this mobile phone with a built-in CCD camera. The body design adopts the popular “slender and straight” key phone of Japanese mobile phones.
The screen uses a 96×130 pixel 256-color LCD screen. But this mobile phone did not cause an uproar in the market at that time, because the camera of this mobile phone was only 110,000 pixels.
In short, I can’t shoot anything, but the innovative attempt to put a camera in a mobile phone is worthy of recognition.
NEC C313: Rotating camera
NEC C313 was launched in 2004, when the top camera flip design of this phone was a surprise.
C313 retains a rear camera, and realizes taking pictures and the accompanying “Selfie” by rotating the position of the camera to realize the function of the rear camera.
However, the camera of this machine supports 2x digital zoom, and can provide up to 640*480 pixel photos when taking pictures, but only 300,000 pixels. Although the image clarity is not satisfactory, it is a reversal camera.
Nokia N93i: Is it a mobile phone or a camera
Speaking of Nokia N93i, everyone will surely think of its unique appearance. Nokia N93i went on the market in February 2007. The full-mirror panel design of the phone is eye-catching. At the same time, the N93i uses a two-way clamshell design.
This design allows the N93i to transform from a mobile phone into a small digital video camera, which facilitates the camera operation and provides a shooting feel closer to DV.
The Nokia N93i camera has 3.2 million pixels and supports up to 3x optical zoom, with an equivalent focal length of 34.25-94.1mm and an aperture of f/3.3. The camera is certified by Carl Zeiss. The design of the small DV camera and the excellent lens configuration of the year have been loved by everyone.
iPhone4: The iconic phone of smartphone imaging
Speaking of iPhone4, everyone is familiar with it. Back then, this mobile phone was called “perfect”, and it was a work of trans-era significance. iPhone 4 is a mobile phone product released by Apple in San Francisco, USA on June 8, 2010.
The iPhone 4’s camera function is compared with the previous one, and has a qualitative leap.
First of all, iPhone 4 is the first Apple product equipped with a front camera. Its synchronized Facetime function opens the door to video calls in the history of mobile phones.
For the rear camera, the iPhone 4 camera’s pixels have increased from 3.2 million to 5 million, and it is equipped with a 1/3.2-inch back-illuminated CMOS sensor.
It supports 5x digital zoom, backside lighting and touch focus, equipped with flash, and supports 720P video shooting at 30 frames per second. A new era of smartphone photography is thus opened, and it is an iconic mobile phone in the history of mobile phone imaging.
LGP925: The first dual-camera phone
Today’s mobile phones generally do not only have a single camera, and the first mobile phone to break through a single camera is LG’s LGP925.
On February 14, 2011, LG launched the world’s first mobile phone LGP925 that supports dual cameras. The phone has 8G of running memory, and the two cameras have reached 5 million pixels. Using polarization technology, combined with dual cameras can perfectly synthesize 3D images.
Nokia Lumia 1020: the first mobile phone with a 40-megapixel camera
On July 11, 2013, Nokia Lumia 1020 was officially released in New York.
The camera is equipped with a Carl Zeiss certified 41 million pixel PureView camera, using the second-generation OIS optical image stabilization, and equipped with LED fill light + xenon flash, and f/2.2 aperture, 4 seconds delay shutter, Lumia professional shooting, Nokia calls it the most advanced back-illuminated sensor to date.
There is no doubt about the camera capability of this phone. Nokia Lumia 1020 is equipped with Pro Camera software, which can help you adjust the exposure, white balance, shutter time and film ISO value.
Combined with a 41 million pixel camera, you can become a senior photographer in one second. Mobile phone camera can be so cool, Nokia Lumia 1020 can help you open your eyes.
Huawei P9: a mobile phone camera tuned by a camera manufacturer
Huawei P9 is a mobile phone product released by Huawei on April 6, 2016 in London, England.
The phone is equipped with the Kirin 955 processor, and the screen uses a 5.2-inch 1080p screen with a screen-to-body ratio of 72.5%. The camera uses a front 8-megapixel camera + a rear 12-megapixel dual camera.
One of the two lenses uses a traditional RGB sensor and the other is a black-and-white sensor. The main camera uses a 12-megapixel Sony IMX286, with a single pixel size of 1.26um, which is 24% higher than that of the P8.
In addition to these basic parameters, the biggest surprise of Huawei P9 is the cooperation with the camera brand Leica.
As the most famous camera brand in the world, Leica’s expensive price is the brand logo of Leica. At the same time, it is accompanied by a kind of exquisite production and a profound culture.
The cooperation between Huawei and Leica in P9 has far-reaching significance for Huawei’s future imaging technology, especially the adjustment and improvement of mobile phone cameras.
Huawei has repeatedly stated that the P9 not only uses Leica-certified lenses, but also designed and completed by Huawei and Leica in terms of lenses, imaging, and user experience, and incorporates Leica’s unique rich color style into the imaging.
Photos taken with Huawei P9 are more detailed and more textured. The cooperation between camera brands and mobile phone brands not only brings excellent lens parameter configuration and image processing methods, but also brings photography culture to the mobile phone field.
The above are the memorable mobile phones in the history of mobile phone imaging brought to you by the editor. Is there any one of them that once belonged to you? Welcome everyone to add in the comment area.
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