Smartphone with a quality camera from 48MP having the largest pixel?

Question

Mobile devices

Hello, I'm interested in a smartphone from a good manufacturer with a conscience, such as Samsung or Apple.
So that the main camera is from 48MP and at the same time that there is a maximum pixel size.
On a third-party site Nanoreview when comparing the cameras of 2 smartphones Samsung galaxy S22 and Huawei Mate 40 Pro Plus. It turned out that the main camera on the Huawei 40 Pro Plus 50MP 1.22 micron is better than on the Samsung S22 50MP 1.0 micron.
But firstly, where does the data on the pixel size of the camera come from, secondly, is it worth trusting this site in general, and thirdly, which main camera will make a 50MP photo better?

Answer 1

In modern cameras in smartphones, a pixel is a bit arbitrary, algorithms are used to convert a group of neighboring pixels into one, and what is most offensive, even when you take raw, it will be the same approximation
, read about camera sensors, most modern smartphones use almost the same sensors
And yes , manufacturers may not report details very well ... who said that modern technologies should give honest pixels? where does the color go? whatever one may say, you need to do three pixels side by side with different colors and then restore information about the sum from them
ps I played with xiaomi redme note 8 pro and older than xiaomi a2, the second camera gives less megapixels but the sensitivity at night is so much higher that by putting it on a tripod and pointing it at the sky at night, you can get gorgeous pictures of the starry sky in a crap city light with a minimum iso and 8sec shutter, the first requires either increasing the duration of the shooting or iso which gives more noise
But note8pro allows you to turn on the 64mp mode to produce clearer pictures, with color artifacts (neighboring pixels are fake, if we talk about stars) with huge resolution
In any case, in addition to the camera you need optics, by default in smartphones it is not very
pps did you look at smartphones with a 108mp sensor? xiaomi 10 or 11 honor 50?

Answer 2

But first, where does the camera pixel size data come from

We take the physical dimensions of the matrix (this is not classified information) and divide them by the number of megapixels.
Further thesis. You will not find honest 50MP there at all. This is absolutely marketing bullshit. You can't deceive physics - at least the diffraction limit of optics will not give such a resolution on a matrix of this size.
In order for these 50Mpiks to look more or less adequate, it will be necessary to "downsample" 4 times.
Further - only raw. All these in-camera jpegs give out such obscenity ... They can shout about "neural network enhancement" as much as they like, but in fact you will just have a picture crushed by noise reduction to the state of soap. Some acceptable quality can only be taken by shooting in raw with subsequent controlled conversion.
The quality of the cameras in the flagships of the same generation is +/- the same. It's all about matrices. And they are the same or similar. The main visual difference will be just in the post-processing of jpegs.

Answer 3

The best camera phone on the market is Apple. then draw your own conclusions.
the number of pixels in these cameras does not really mean anything, as practice shows

Answer 4

Mp in phones doesn't really solve anything.
Top shots are now taken by the latest flagships from Apple / Google / Samsung / Huawei.
Each of these cameras shoots in some ways better than others, in some ways worse. There are no universal and ideal ones
See pictures in different conditions for each of these phones, and choose the one whose pictures you subjectively like more

Answer 5

Quality does not directly depend on size, which is a pity, it would be easy to choose.
The quality of the photo is decided by algorithms, the iPhone has its own, and Google has a camera buzz.
How well the application fantasizes the data from the matrix, the photo will be so good.
Cheap smartphones even with a 48 megapixel camera get nasty pictures, fortunately the quality changes radically if you use GCam.