19 Facts About Phone camera

Some camera phones are designed to resemble separate low-end digital compact cameras in appearance and to some degree in features and picture quality, and are branded as both mobile phones and cameras—an example being the 2013 Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom.

Principal advantages of camera phones are cost and compactness; indeed for a user who carries a mobile phone anyway, the addition is negligible.

Also, modern smartphones can use their touch screens to direct their camera to focus on a particular object in the field of view, giving even an inexperienced user a degree of focus control exceeded only by seasoned photographers using manual focus.

Some more expensive camera phones have only a few of these technical disadvantages, but with bigger image sensors, their capabilities approach those of low-end point-and-shoot cameras.

The earliest known smartphone to feature it on the rear camera is in late 2012 on the Nokia Lumia 920, and the first known front camera to feature one is on the HTC 10 from early 2016.

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An external camera can be added, coupled wirelessly to the phone by Wi-Fi.

Since the mid-2010s, some high-end camera phones have a RAW photography feature, HDR, and "Bokeh mode".

The Sprint wireless carriers deployed over one million camera phones manufactured by Sanyo and launched by the PictureMail infrastructure developed and managed by LightSurf.

The idea was for it to be used on devices without a built-in camera and be able to transfer images taken on the camera directly to the phone to be stored or sent via MMS.

The complementary MOS active pixel sensor "Phone camera-on-a-chip" was later developed by Eric Fossum and his team in the early 1990s.

The patent application specifically described the combination as either a separate digital camera connected to a cell phone or as an integrated system with both sub-systems combined in a single unit.

The first mass-market camera phone was the J-SH04, a Sharp J-Phone model sold in Japan in November 2000.

In 2003, more camera phones were sold worldwide than stand-alone digital cameras largely due to growth in Japan and Korea.

The hundreds of millionsof camera phones sold every year provide the same opportunities, yet these functions are altered and allow for a different user experience.

Apart from street photographers and social documentary photographers or cinematographers, camera phones have been used successfully by war photographers.

The small size of the camera phone allows a war photographer to secretly film the men and women who fight in a war, without them realizing that they have been photographed, thus the camera phone allows the war photographer to document wars while maintaining her or his safety.

Some modern camera phones have big sensors, thus allowing a street photographer or any other kind of photographer to take photos of similar quality to a semi-professional camera.

QR codes can be sensed by the phone using its camera and provide an according link to related digital content, usually a URL.

Smartphones can use their front camera facing the user for purposes like self-portraiture and videoconferencing.