Sony: In 2024, image quality from smartphone cameras will surpass that of DSLRs

By 2024, Sony expects smartphone cameras to be able to take better image quality photos than interchangeable lens cameras such as DSLRs. In the next few years, according to the company, we will see increasingly larger camera sensors in high-end smartphones.

Thanks to that latest development thinks Sony incidentally, the market for smartphone camera sensors will continue to grow in the coming years. This despite the fact that the saturation point for the number of cameras on a smartphone has indeed been reached, according to the company. By 2024, Sony expects photos from a smartphone to have better image quality than those from an interchangeable lens camera. Sony refers to the increasing number of pixels, artificial intelligence and upcoming technologies.

From 2025, the top of the Japanese company expects that an average wide-angle lens of a smartphone will contain a larger diameter, the ultra-wide-angle lens will be more light-sensitive and the telephoto lens will perform better. In shared slides, we see that Sony is thinking about supporting video recordings in 8K and multi-frame processing of those recorded videos, in combination with artificial intelligence. It’s not clear which Sony camera sensors will support these technologies.

Slide from presentation Sony Group Corporation