A leaker has provided further details about the Vivo X100 Pro+ or Vivo X100 Ultra camera flagship, which is expected to be launched in 2024. Based on a prototype, the triple cam equipped with 4.3x optical zoom appears to be quite versatile and can apparently reach ridiculous sounding digital zoom-levels.
Statistical photography aka computational photography aka supersampling. Statistically bin together number of smaller pixels to cut the amount of noise to create picture of a lower resolution than sensor level, but better quality.
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Supersampling is definitely something interesting, but up to what point? On a sensor this small, even something like 48 sampled to 12 already suffers to a degree where I would stop calling it useful.
Don’t get me wrong here, I can see the use first hand on my own phone. My second lens for night mode does 20MP to 5, and while the image is brighter than the main lens, it’s just as grainy, and a much lower output resolution too.
Now granted, my phone is a few years old now, and modern devices surely have better sensors, but no amount of trickery will make up for those physical limitations.