The iPhone 14 will improve its cameras. Not just in megapixels, but in something that really matters

We know from rumors that Apple is going to improve the cameras of the iPhone 14 during the launch event in September, and when we hear about it, the most mentioned are the 48 MP of the new cameras. A significant improvement, no doubt, but which may dazzle another much more interesting.

An improvement we’ll notice in virtually every photo we take

A few days ago we learned, via Twitter, that Espera Ming-Chi Kuo

than iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max have a larger sensor in your lens super wide angle. News that arrived without too much grief or glory, but which is really topical.

The number of megapixels, i.e. points of information in a photo, to put it in a way, is not always synonymous with quality. This is because more dots, pixels in fact, require them all to be smaller. And with smaller pixels on the sensor, these capture less light

which translates into less information and, in the long term, lower quality.

Just as we talk about the number of pixels in a sensor, it is essential to talk about its size. Therefore, when we hear that the iPhone 14 Pro cameras will improve so much that they will have 48 MP, we can ignore what many think is really important, which is that the sensors will increase the size of the pixels. from 1.0 micrometer to 1.4 micrometer

. A more than substantial improvement which, although it increases the cost of the component by 70%, will lead to the most interesting improvements in low light conditions.

And when we talk about low light, we are not necessarily talking exclusively about the night. The the vast majority of interior photos are underexposed just for being inside. So yes, that the wide-angle camera reaches 48 MP is good news, but that the ultra wide-angle camera increases its pixel size by 40% is great news. Did someone say “new astrophotography mode”?