Hi,
I own a Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Prime, recently, there was a review of this smartphone at DPReview, mainly due to the camera being 13Mpx with Phase Detection Auto Focus, on such a cheap smartphone.
And I was wondering, how can I identify the Camera Sensors on this phone?
There has been a teardown of the phone, and below is the picture of the sensors found:
myfixguide dot com/manual/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Xiaomi-Redmi-Note-2-Teardown-16.jpg
The thing is, this references don't lead to anywhere... I've searched the net for them and found nothing... On Xiaomi's publicity, sometimes the sensor is publicized as being from Samsung or OV (Omnivision), this is never good, as we never know really what is the sensor we have on our phone...
And I've seen my share of Chinese Smartphone manufacturers that say they put sensors from Sony, and then it's Omnivision or Samsung (if your lucky), or else it's "Sunny" or some other small time chinese sensor brand...
What called my attention was, that for a smartphone so "cheap" (base model costs aprox. $125 in China), they put a 13Mpx PDAF sensor on it...
But I'm not sure both Omnivision and Samsung produce sensors with the same specs, also, from the picture below, it looks like the sensor might in fact be from "O-Film", another relatively lesser known sensor brand (check: o-film dot com)
Both sensors seem to have similar codes:
OMI BA 08
OMI 5F 05
So it looks like they might be sourced from the same manufacturer, but looking at the references, I'm afraid if they aren't really a 8Mpx sensor, interpolated to 13Mpx... Because of the "08" in the reference of the back sensor, while the front one has "05" which corresponds to the frontal camera spec of 5Mpx.
Can anyone help me identify the real sensor inside my phone? Thanks for the help !
Type *#*#6484#*#* into Phone, click on Software Version and scroll down. It does say OFilm under both Camera values. At least in my case.
Edit:
the sensors are http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/products/cmos-image-sensor/mobile-cis/S5K3M2?ia=217 and http://www.ovt.com/products/sensor.php?id=150
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sunbriel said:
Type *#*#6484#*#* into Phone, click on Software Version and scroll down. It does say OFilm under both Camera values. At least in my case.
Sent from my Redmi Note 2
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Thanks for the tip !
In my case, I have:
- Back camera: the Sunny made S5K3M2_2ND (probably a clone of the Samsung ISOCELL S5K3M2, maybe this is their 2nd version clone or try...)
- Front camera: the Ofilm OV5670 (a clone of the Omnivision OV5670 probably)
I wonder if these clone brands have as good quality as the original ones...
Been looking on Chinese forums about this topic. I myself don't really care, but it slightly caught my interest. They are saying that the sensor is Samsung's and the camera module is Ofilm's or Sunny's.
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Same here. The picture quality at day rivals those of much more expensive phones and the phone focuses fast enough for me - so the question on whether it's original vs a clone, or whether the PDAF is a real or fake one is purely academical to me. As for how such a "cheap" phone can have such features, it's simple: the companies charge huge margins. Just look at Sony's M5, it's essentially the same phone with more megapixels (though, tbh, not really better image quality) and costs around 500€. You're paying about 300€ just for the brand and pixels.
It's not a clone. Here is one of the links where it is explained what it all means: www.miui.com/thread-2916880-1-1.html
Use Google translate, you'll understand the general meaning. Basically, it's like I wrote in my previous post.
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I'm not saying it is a clone, I'm saying I wouldn't care even if it is.
I was responding to the OP, though.
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I have Sunny cameras (rear & front)
Front camera shot clean pictures in good light condition.
Rear camera is a little bit noise and macros are not perfect (you must stay at least at 10 cm from the subject in order to get a good macro) but autofocus is very fast
The problem is video FPS
I noticed that it drops dramatically in low light condition, from 30 to 22 so shot video lags
And in your?
I noticed that with miui 7 we now have slow motion so somewere around 90fps. ( you have to be in hd not in full hd to get this option).
Hi everyone!
Since zenfone zoom, selfie and laser have manual exposure up to 32 seconds, why wouldn't this be possible with ZE551ML too? I was thinking about acrchitecture, but the zoom is x86 too, so there must be some way to unlock this in our phone (and possibly on zenfone 5 and 6 too).
What could be done to fool the pixelmaster camera app to think it's installed on a zenfone laser or zoom? editing build.prop? does anyone have a laser or zoom here that could maybe check the settings and config so we could try to enable this?
This was posted in general thread and it works, but limited to 1 second and I did not see a difference in the resulting photo:
Originally Posted by hotgaofla
As you know, zen2's camera has min/max shutter speed at 1/2s and 1/500s in manual mode.
I edited the camera_profiles.xml file in root folder system/etc and the result is you can set the min shutter speed from 1/2s to 1s, and the max shutter speed from 1/500sto 1/2500s.
Since many smartphone out there can shoot at very slow shutter speed (some ****ty chinese phone can shoot 32s long). Im asking u guys any solution to increase the shutter speed more than 1 second?
Any ideas are welcome.
have you even checked if the sensor is the same across these devices? the 551mml uses a toshiba t4k37 sensor.
edit: yea so the zoom uses a panasonic smartFSI sensor so i highly doubt your just going to "enable" the features missing as the toshiba sensor in the 551ml most likly doesnt support the same shutter speed as the panasonic sensor
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have you even checked if the sensor is the same across these devices? the 551mml uses a toshiba t4k37 sensor.
edit: yea so the zoom uses a panasonic smartFSI sensor so i highly doubt your just going to "enable" the features missing as the toshiba sensor in the 551ml most likly doesnt support the same shutter speed as the panasonic sensor
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I agree, the sensors are not the same on the zoom and the zf2, but what about laser and selfie?
Would that be tied to sensor driver limits or OS limits? after all, the same pixelmaster camera is used across devices, so maybe there would be a chance anyway.
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I agree, the sensors are not the same on the zoom and the zf2, but what about laser and selfie?
Would that be tied to sensor driver limits or OS limits? after all, the same pixelmaster camera is used across devices, so maybe there would be a chance anyway.
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from what i can tell the laser and selfie use the same toshiba sensor but with laser auto focusing (hence the name =P)
so if its true and the laser and selfie do have that option then maybe it isnt hardware limited on our phone. but then again im no expert it could have something to do with the intel chipset too being as the laser and selfie use a snapdragon cpu.
but as you stated the first thing you might try is changing the build.prop to show the 551ml as the laser or selfie.
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from what i can tell the laser and selfie use the same toshiba sensor but with laser auto focusing (hence the name =P)
so if its true and the laser and selfie do have that option then maybe it isnt hardware limited on our phone. but then again im no expert it could have something to do with the intel chipset too being as the laser and selfie use a snapdragon cpu.
but as you stated the first thing you might try is changing the build.prop to show the 551ml as the laser or selfie.
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Yup, I'll go to laser/selfie forums and ask for their build.prop and camera_profiles.xml and will fiddle with those.
I'll be back with my results.
see my post, have 32's exposure
Is Google camera port use depth sensing camera when we click portrait as it is ported from pixel I don't think it used.So my depth sensing camera is useless on custom rom
Yes it uses single camera not double
I have clicked photo then it convert another photo with portrait effect
Does anyone know if this port uses the second lens on the Oneplus for portrait depth/bokeh effect? The reason I ask is I'm debating between Oneplus 5 & 5T (due to front facing fingerprint sensor on the 5) but the secondary camera on 5 is f/2.6 compared to f/1.7 on 5T. If this port is not using the second camera, then I do not need to worry about camera differences.
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Does anyone know if this port uses the second lens on the Oneplus for portrait depth/bokeh effect? The reason I ask is I'm debating between Oneplus 5 & 5T (due to front facing fingerprint sensor on the 5) but the secondary camera on 5 is f/2.6 compared to f/1.7 on 5T. If this port is not using the second camera, then I do not need to worry about camera differences.
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Go with the 5t
To answer your question though, the port only uses both cameras on pie, it can not do so on Oreo
I was wondering if anyone tried the Note 10+ 3D Scanner app on their A9 (2018) since they seem to have the same depth sensor (only thing missing is IR blaster but I’m guessing that just increases range) and if so did it work or do you know of any other app that can access the A9’s depth sensor data and visualize it as 3D please?
TIA
dada.81 said:
I was wondering if anyone tried the Note 10+ 3D Scanner app on their A9 (2018) since they seem to have the same depth sensor (only thing missing is IR blaster but I’m guessing that just increases range) and if so did it work or do you know of any other app that can access the A9’s depth sensor data and visualize it as 3D please?
TIA
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So, no one, how about A80's, depth camera with projector, does it do 3D scanning?