Yesterday it was the turn of Apple and the iPhone 13 and today it was Xiaomi, which presented its new high-end smartphones that, as we told you, were presumably going to be called Xiaomi 12 (no longer the surname Mi) and bet on a sensor. main of only 50 megapixels. However this time the rumors were wrong and neither 12 nor 50, the new Xiaomi are called Xiaomi 11T and 11T Pro and they come with a triple module of cameras with a 108-megapixel main sensor.
We, logically, are going to focus on your photographic proposal, and we are going to do it indistinctly with both terminals since they are identical mobiles in this section having exactly the same camera module (the differences are mainly in their processors). But first let’s place the new devices that arrive to replace the Xiaomi Mi 11 (the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra is left aside, especially for its photographic possibilities).
The new camera module, by the way, keeps sticking out of the body terminal, as has become customary in recent years smartphones, and in this case without being exaggerated it does not go unnoticed either and above it has two areas: a first for the flash and another even higher for the lenses. All this protected by a glass (which is probably some version of the well-known Gorilla Glass Victus) and where the following camera configuration is housed:
108 megapixel main sensor, with 2.1 µm photodiodes and associated with an f / 1.75 lens
8 megapixel ultra-wide-angle sensor associated with an f / 2.2 aperture lens and 120º angle of view
5 megapixel telemacro sensor associated with an f / 2.4 lens with macro focus between 3 and 7 cm
As the Xataka colleagues have told (who have already had the mobile in their hands), in the choice of the 108 Mpixel sensor (instead of the 50 Mpixel and larger size of the Mi 11 Ultra that the rumors said) it has had much to see marketing: the mobile is sold better the more megapixels it has.
Therefore, the final arrangement is quite similar to that of the mobile it replaces, although there are important nuances. Especially with respect to the aforementioned main sensor, which although it maintains the 108 megapixels gain in luminosityfrom f / 1.85 to 1.75) and, above all, the size of the pixels (0.8 µm to 2.1) and it is a dual native type sensor.
In this way, although pixel binning can be used to group your receivers into larger pixels (thus offering lower resolution final photos), presumably thanks to the dual native ISO and those larger photodiodes sIt will be able to capture more light and produce less noise than the original 108-megapixel sensor.
As for the other two lenses there are also variations: the ultra-wide angle lens low in resolution (de 13 to 8 megapixels) but it rises in luminosity (from f / 2.4 to 2.2) and also offers a wider viewing angle (120º).
For its part, the third set of sensor and optics remains in the 5 megapixels with a luminosity f / 2.4, which are exactly the same values of the Mi 11, although the periscope-type lens of 8 MP and 120mm equivalent focal length of the Mi 11 Pro is discarded. Of course, now this lens is capable of focusing automatically at a distance of only three centimeters, which makes it suitable for macro shooting.
Of course, all this is nothing more than technical data that they have less and less importance compared to the role that the software part is taking on, and in particular computational photography, when it comes to getting mobile cameras to take better and better photos. In this sense, the new Xiaomi Mi 11T boast of professional algorithms to offer “amazing image resolution and texture, both in daylight and in the dark“.
Therefore, nothing like checking in situ the possibilities of the new terminals that, a priori, are presented no revolutionary changes but an obvious improvement to continue to be among the mobile phones with the best photographic features on the market.
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