Yesterday, there was a report stating that Samsung is shipping some units of the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge units with its homegrown ISOCELL camera sensor instead of the Sony IMX240. The report was true as we found out that one of the Galaxy S6 edge unit that we own had an ISOCELL camera sensor. The reason behind this could be the shortage of Sony sensors, forcing Samsung to use its own sensor. By now, you would be wondering whether the final image quality out of the ISOCELL sensor is similar to the IMX240 or inferior to it.
Luckily, we’ve got a chance to play around with both the sensors, and here we’ve captured some images in varying lighting conditions. All these images (except the last pair, which were captured with HDR set to be always on) were clicked in the Auto Mode, just like how a normal consumer would.
After a first glance, we think that the images shot using IMX240 display vibrant and warmer colors than the ones clicked using the ISOCELL sensor. Also, the images captured using the Sony sensor appear have more depth in them. In bright conditions, the IMX240 captured original colors, but it was the opposite otherwise. The ISOCELL sensor captured truer-to-life colors during the low-light conditions. We’ve also thrown in 1:1 100 percent crops of images below for all the pixel-peepers out there to analyse. Also, the file size of images shot with the IMX240 was higher than those captured using the ISOCELL sensor.
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ISOCELL – HDR On
IMX240 – HDR On
Generally, a consumer would expect to have the same out-of-the-box experience from the product as their friend’s, but it is not true in this case. Is it Samsung’s fault that it couldn’t manage to receive enough camera sensors from Sony, or is it Sony’s fault as they weren’t able to produce enough?
In the end, it is the consumers who are being affected as they are getting different out-of-the-box experiences. If Henry and John buy the same car from Honda, they need to perform exactly the same. It shouldn’t be that one of the cars has a Fiat engine which has the same amount of horsepower but drives 30 miles an hour slower.
We’ve asked for a statement about this from Samsung Benelux, and we’ll update your accordingly. As to which camera sensor is better, we would let you be the judge. What do you think? Fire off your thoughts in the comments section below.
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