LG Innotek has announced something that smartphone photographers will really appreciate. The new announcement is the unveiling of the widest aperture camera LG Innotek has ever developed for a smartphone. The camera is a 16MP module with an aperture of f/1.8.
The first use of this new camera sensor will be in the LG G4 that will be unveiled later this month. This camera is able to receive 80% more light than in the camera that was used on the LG G3. That G3 camera was hugely praised.
More light should mean better image quality, especially in poor lighting conditions. LG Innotek says that larger apertures on smartphone cameras are hard to develop due to complexity and the size of the modules, which need to fit into very small spaces.
LG has also developed an 8MP front facing camera module, which is the highest resolution front camera module developed so far. It has an ultra-thin IR filter that keeps infrared light from entering the lens and producing more accurate colors and better-looking selfies. This filter is 0.11mm thick making it about half the thickness of competing IR filters according to LG.
