The Galaxy S5 falls short of the HTC One M8 when shooting in low light —
the smaller individual pixels, even with Samsung's new ISOCELL - based sensor, are the reason — but still manages to best its predecessor by a healthy margin in this regard.
Not exact matches
Among other things, he has noticed
small numbers of
individual bright
pixels scattered in and around his processed images of the Spot.
More accurately, the
individual pixels are
small enough to be unnoticeable; which unsurprisingly couples well with the E-Ink technology to make text shown on the Pocket Reader extremely easy on the eyes.
The difference is that on a crop sensor, each
individual photosite (the tiny little sensors that detect the light for each
pixel) is going to be
smaller.
In fact, Micro LEDs are so
small that each
individual cell of each LCD
pixel — the red, green, and blue lights that allow variable colors to be displayed — gets its own tiny LED light.
If you look closely, you can see
individual pixels, but holding the screen a foot or so from our face, even
small text looks sharp.
ISOCELL sensors have greater separation between
individual pixels to reduce color crosstalk for improved color fidelity and good image quality even with
smaller pixels.
LG is one of these as it has
individual control of
pixels and light outputs (
pixel level dimming) whereas LCD typically has a very
small number of dimming zones and can not achieve that precise contrast control.