How can a mobile phone make a documentary comparable to professional equipment? We found the answer at Qualcomm Snapdragon Video Exhibition.

Every moment, countless people around the world are shooting with their smartphones.

Today, even though there is still a gap between the quality of mobile phone photography and professional cameras, most users don't care. After all, besides quality, photography itself has such fun and significance. The rapid upgrading of mobile phones in recent years has been deeply rooted in people's hearts and promoted the great popularity of photography.

Maybe some young friends don't know that the camera on the mobile phone was not born for photography. As a witness and witness in that period, Huan Shao vaguely remembers that he entered the business when color screen mobile phones first became popular, and the appearance of mobile phone cameras was mainly for 3G video calls. Ericsson and Nokia, which were very popular at that time, were both early "crab eaters".

At that time, the domestic mobile communication network construction obviously lagged behind the developed countries in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, so that when the domestic 2.5G network just emerged, many parallel mobile phones that entered the domestic market from various channels were already 3G mobile phones. Huanshao came into contact with these mobile phones with cameras, but he didn't experience 3G video calls online, so he took photos with the camera of the mobile phone and had fun. I still remember that the picture quality of the mobile phone was really "touching" at that time, and it was no match for the camera at all. If I could make a 3gp (format) video, it would be a very high-end mobile phone, so I didn't leave some youthful memories with my mobile phone at that time. It's a pity to think about it now

After more than ten years, who would have thought that the photography ability of mobile phones has become so powerful? Shooting the stars and the moon, shooting the Milky Way, microscopes, Vlog, micro-movies, documentaries and even professional directors all have successful cases of using mobile phones for photography. On September 25th, Beijing Kuntai Jiarui Culture ushered in Qualcomm Snapdragon Image Exhibition, and a series of mobile phone photography achievements equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 mobile platform made their first public appearance.

Hou Mingjuan, global vice president of Qualcomm, said that this is the first video exhibition held in Qualcomm, and the innovation of mobile imaging technology has always been the focus of Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile. In this exhibition, photographers from chinese national geography went deep into the secret world and took a series of videos and photos of rare wild animals with a 5G smartphone equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 5G mobile platform.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 mobile platform has brought many important breakthroughs in mobile imaging technology, including but not limited to 200 million pixel photos supported by mobile terminals so far, synchronous shooting of the highest pixel video and photos so far, taking the lead in supporting 8K resolution video shooting, and realizing unrestricted 960 FPS slow-motion shooting (direct output of native information) on mobile terminals for the first time.

The development of mobile phone camera from meeting video calls to realizing the innovation of various imaging technologies depends on the rapid improvement of data throughput. In recent years, with the wide application of AI technology, the speed of computing power is far beyond our imagination, which gives mobile terminals more possibilities in the imaging field. Xu Heng, Senior Director of Qualcomm Product Market, pointed out that Qualcomm Snapdragon Platform continues to lead the development of mobile images. Although there are optical performance limitations in mobile phone photography compared with professional photography, mobile phone photography not only supports more fun functions and higher frames with huge computing power and multi-camera technology, but also greatly makes up for the shortcomings in optical and photoelectric conversion of mobile phones. After the massive data is superimposed, the total amount of information can even surpass professional photographic equipment, which is also the key to better mobile phone photography.

"What can the mobile phone (camera) do next?" This is a topic worth discussing. Xu Heng believes that mobile phone photography can be enhanced by a large number of algorithms. "If you want more, you can add an algorithm at the back, which is why the current mobile phone has to be loaded for a while after taking pictures. As for video, it will be more difficult, because it needs real-time processing, and every frame of video shooting reaches the same quality as photos. I think it will be the direction of future mobile terminal image performance. "

Keke comments: Mobile phone photography is not to compete with professional photographic equipment for image quality, but to bring more playability to creation is more valuable.