Mobile or SLR camera?

Mobile or SLR camera?

The new generation of phones offers 48-megapixel resolution images

Not so long ago we could not undertake a trip or vacation without our camera under your arm, whether compact, for the less experienced in the world of photography, or SLR for the most knowledgeable and demanding. The arrival of smartphones ended unceremoniously with the first, while reflex cameras have resisted this push offering a quality far superior to that of mobile phones, this distance is getting shorter and shorter and mobile manufacturers are going to all. The latest in this race comes in numbers and is that the new generation of mobile will reach a whopping 48 megapixels (MP) in their lenses.

Samsung soon announced an "ultra small and high resolution" sensors with which they would achieve the precious 48 MP, a level to date in the optics of mobile phones. Much more, for less, seems to be the maximum pursued by the main mobile brands knowing that the market increasingly demands more compact terminals and with a quality of photographs in a crazy upward war. But Samsung will not be alone, far from it, in this competition: Sony himself and the dreaded Xiaomi will announce in 2019 phones with such powerful cameras, and as a reference we will remember that Apple's new iPhone XS and Google's Pixel 3 will they remain at 12 megapixels in their cameras.

It has been Huawei who has already announced a smartphone with rear lens of 48 MP with its Honor View 20, a terminal that carries precisely a Sony optics, the IMX586, which in just half an inch achieved this record mark. Unlike what happened in the past, the new lenses are integrated seamlessly into the body of the phone without showing unsightly humps, and this minimalist trend has also reached the panels. The manufacturers bet on perforating the screen to incorporate the front lens avoiding the dreaded  notch . The Asian manufacturer will be one of them in combining both milestones and will launch in China this powerful team expected December 26.

Although with regard to the quality of the image, not necessarily more megapixels is equivalent to a better result, and this has been demonstrated by Google with Pixel, and especially in its latest installment, where software management and the algorithms achieve spectacular results with a simple shot. All in all, brands know well that the buyer moves by trends and the "the more, the better" continues to weigh a lot. In this sense, 48 seems to be the magic figure that everyone wants to reach in the back lenses of their smartphones , to the point that the CEO of Xiaomi showed in the Weibo social network a close-up of a mobile lens with the magic number to his side. No more data was needed.

This belief in the specific weight of the megapixels in the quality of the photo will find many followers in the classification of the popular DxOMark site, where the Huawei P20 Pro and its 40 MP lens leads the prestigious table closely followed by the iPhone XS Max. And now that we talk about Apple and the weight of the lens and software , the Cupertino have managed to place at the top of this list the new iPhone XR, a camera with a single lens and only 12 megapixels.