Huawei P9 phones capture photons with twin camera sensors
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Huawei's next flagship smartphones, the P9 and the P9 Plus, might raise the bar in the smartphone camera arena. These phones use not one, but two 12MP camera modules to capture data. They then combine the input from these sensors to make potentially more detailed photos. One of those sensors is a traditional Bayer-color-array module, while the other captures only luminance (or tonal) data. Since that monochrome sensor doesn't have a color filter, each of its photo sites can collect more light.
The Huawei P9, the dual-lens smartphone co-engineered with ...