Sony: smartphone cameras will replace simple DSLRs by 2024

Many companies (especially small Chinese ones) like to compare their cameras in their promotional materials.

gadgets with “DSLRs”, oftentrying to convince the client that the smartphone takes even better photographs. Now it’s not just anyone but Sony who is speaking in the same spirit. In a few years, smartphone cameras could surpass single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras, according to Terushi Shimizu, executive director of Sony's semiconductor cell. This will be possible by increasing the aperture ratio of mobile cameras and high signal saturation technology. Sony is confident that the potential for mobile camera development is enormous, and cameras will continue to be updated for many years, while the development of screens and batteries, two other critical components of progress, is slowing down significantly.

Overall, Sony, as the largest player inmarket of mobile cameras, knows what he’s talking about, and the simplest cameras are already being replaced by smartphones, which win in the “take it out and shoot” part. The problem is that the ambitious goal of defeating “DSLRs” It’s not the first year that it’s been installed, but it’s still there. The manager also notes the development of AI technologies, which, along with a new pixel structure and support for 8K, can take smartphone cameras to a whole new level and defeat SLR. Well, let's see how it turns out in practice, because progress cannot be stopped one way or another.

© Artur Luchkin.

According to the Nikkei