Something increasingly common on mobile phones to find collaborations between brands dedicated to photography through traditional cameras and well-known brands of smartphones. There are many photography brands already present in smartphones and the list continues to grow, now adding the possibility that Samsung and Olympus begin to work together for the next smartphones.
Rumors tell us what would be a very important change, since Samsung is already one of the brands that does the best job with its cameras and has shown it in the high-end but also in the mid-range with the integration of cutting-edge technologies. Therefore, the new collaboration would seek to go a step further and offer better results to get to face the classic cameras themselves.
Camera plans for the Samsung Galaxy S22
This collaboration that has reached the ears of the whole world through the tweet published by @heyitsyogesh and which has been recognized by Ice Universe, indicates that Olympus has initiated an approach with Samsung to make this collaboration possible. This may come as a surprise, given that Samsung is already a producer of lenses and sensors, but the collaboration could still be fruitful for both.
There are not too many details about how the union will take place, and it can be based on new sensors exclusive to the Samsung brand, given that the Korean firm also markets them with other mobile brands or if Olympus will try to improve the results in another way. For now there is no official information about it, but there is already talk of a dedicated chip in which Samsung works with the integration of Olympus in the code.
This development could still take a long time and rumors say that the integration of Olympus technology in mobile phones will not occur until the end of this year with a special version of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 or the Samsung Galaxy S22 . There is no doubt that mobile camera technology still has a long way to go to catch up with traditional cameras, but with these connections, we are closer to it.
What can change for users?
Without a doubt the collaboration between Olympus and Samsung will allow better results that go from the moment of taking the photograph, to the processing of the images, but it is too early to know what it could mean. The evolution at first would be dedicated to the high-end or premium-range , as does Leica or Hasselblad, but in the future who knows how far this integration could go.