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Zoom Technology Missing from iPhone 11 Pro

Despite having a telephoto camera module, iPhone 11 Pro zoom is still far behind the top performers that use Super-Resolution Zoom. Zoom has recently become one of the most important features of smartphone cameras with the leading OEMs advertising their devices achieving high picture quality at sometimes crazy zoom levels. Like every high-end smartphone, iPhone […]

Google Super Resolution Zoom: Good Start but not There Yet

Our first testing of Google’s super-resolution zoom recently announced in Pixel 3 shows that it indeed can restore some image details, but is still behind the best in class solutions. Compared to the “normal” digital zoom, which is basically an upscaling plus edge enhancement, Google’s zoom reveals some details that are indistinguishable in the “normal” image: ex1-digital.png,ex1-google-right.png […]

Super Resolution with Nokia Lumia 1520. How pure can a Pureview be?

As Nokia made RAW format available in Lumia 1520, we took a chance to test Almalence Super Resolution technology with it. As Lumia 1520 always outputs 5 Megapixel image, the comparison has been made between: Standard image at maximal zoom (pixel-to-pixel crop from the sensor with no resampling) bicubically upsized 2x, and 5 Megapixel crop […]