Xiaomi snuggled up with Leica returned in June for the release of the 12S Ultra smartphone offering a 1-inch-kind photograph sensor and Summicron optics. Now the groups have partnered once more on a idea model with a lens adapter for mounting Leica glass.
The 12S Ultra right already has quite brilliant digital digicam chops, with the primary digital digicam constructed round a 50.3-megapixel 1-inch-kind IMX989 sensor paired with a 23-mm F1.nine lens, and 48-MP ultra-extensive and telephoto cameras using Sony’s IMX586 sensor. Optical photograph stabilization is cooked in, in conjunction with 10-bit RAW capabilities, at the same time as Leica brings its optics expertise in conjunction with photograph and colour processing tech.
The rear digital digicam array of the idea handset appears just like the manufacturing setup, however there may be a 1-inch-kind sensor uncovered withinside the center – albeit in the back of defensive sapphire. This module awaits a Leica M Mount digital digicam lens to be connected to the telecellsmartphone frame through an adapter, ensuing in a form of telecellsmartphone/digital digicam hybrid like Sony’s QX collection or Photogram’s Alice.
The shape across the lens mount region has been bolstered and the praise for the greater bulk while a lens is hooked up is a handset that “can seize ultra-excessive decision with particular mild and exquisite optical depths,” in keeping with Xiaomi’s pattern photograph tweet.
The sensor withinside the center approach that the primary 50.3-MP digital digicam has been driven out to the threshold of the array’s disc, in conjunction with a 48-MP ultra-extensive. In daily use those digital digicam modules could tackle the majority of cell imagery needs, with the person twisting and locking on an adapter-packing Leica M lens – together with the Summilux-M 35mm f/1.four ASPH full-body lens utilized in Xiaomi’s demo shots – to show it right into a flagship telecellsmartphone with next-stage imaging capabilities, along with capabilities like 10-bit RAW shooting, cognizance peaking, publicity manipulate and histogram additionally on tap.
This idea became advanced in parallel with the flagship 12S Ultra telecellsmartphone, however Xiaomi hasn’t indicated whether or not it’s going to cross into manufacturing. So, for the moment, it stays an exciting layout study.
