"Leitz Phone 1", which was released by SoftBank, is attracting attention not only in Japan but also from all over the world because it is the first smartphone of a long -established camera manufacturer Leica.As you can see from the riding Osaifu -Keitai, this Leitz Phone 1 is currently sold only in Japan.Leica camera enthusiasts around the world will be wondering how to get the Leitz Phone 1 sold in Japan.
Leitz Phone 1 is equipped with a 1 -inch camera sensor that is also mounted on digital cameras.The base model is Sharp's "Aqous R6".Aqous R6 is equipped with a camera supervised by Leica, but Leica has developed a smartphone for its own brand.If you have a large -scale sensor that is the largest smartphone, you may have thought that it would be possible to take pictures comparable to digital cameras.
However, this is not the first model equipped with a Leica camera with a smartphone.In 2017, Leica partnered with Huawei, and since the Huawei's "P" series and "Mate" series have been equipped with Leica supervised cameras.Several models have been released in Japan, and the characters "Leica" are proudly written on the camera part of the smartphone.
Leica is affiliated with Panasonic with a digital camera, but there are also models with Leica cameras on the Panasonic brand smartphone."LUMIX DMC -CM1" released in 2014 and "LUMIX DMC -CM10" released in 2016.As you can see from the name of LUMIX, it was released as a digital camera, but it was also a smartphone that can be used to communicate with an Android OS on a smartphone -sized body, put SIM card and LTE communication.The CM1 and CM10 are equipped with a 1 -inch sensor, and it is probably the world's first 1 -inch sensor -equipped smartphone.
The CM1/CM10 was a product that installed a digital camera on a smartphone.Therefore, it was also sold at camera shops.Huawei's smartphone, on the other hand, is a product equipped with a Leica technology camera in a smartphone.The same applies to AQOS R6 and Leitz Phone 1, which may be a bit less powerful to use as a replacement for digital cameras, but it will demonstrate the industry's top class performance as a smartphone camera performance.I want you to score the camera performance of AQOS R6 and Leitz Phone 1 with "DXOMARK", which measure benchmarks such as smartphone cameras.
By the way, smartphone manufacturers are focusing on the development of cameras, but it seems that collaborating with camera manufacturers with the camera will dramatically enhance their performance.Huawei's smartphone camera, which has been collaborated with Leica, has been proud of the industry's top in recent years.Therefore, other smartphone manufacturers are also working with camera manufacturers.
Sony has begun joint development of Karl Zeiss and digital camera lenses in 1996.It also expanded to smartphones from "Xperia 1 II" released in 2020.The latest "Xperia 1 III" also contains the "ZEISS" logo on the camera part.
Karutsu Ice is starting to partner with smartphones other than Sony.In partnership with Vivo in China in 2020, it is equipped with Karl Zeiss and a camera developed in the Vivo camera reinforced smartphone "X60" series released in 2021.The "ZEISS" logo with the same blue background as the digital camera is embedded in the Vivo smartphone.
Karl Zeiss was affiliated with Nokia before the smartphone heyday.Some people may remember that the "N73" released in 2006 was released by SoftBank as "705NK" in Japan.The name "CARL ZEISS" is engraved on the camera part of the N73.Since then, Nokia's camera phone "808 PureView" is also equipped with a curl Zeiss camera and has been inherited by the latest Android smartphone "X20".
In 2021, Hassel Blood and China ONEPLUS were partnered, and the Hasselbrad camera was adopted in the "OnePlus 9" series.Hassel Blood launched the Hasselblad True Zoom Camera in the Motorola united smartphone in 2016, and the foothold for the smartphone industry had already been completed.Motorola's combined smartphone has already ended, but there may be collaborations on Hasselbrad and Motorola smartphones in the future.
The digital camera market is shrinking year by year, and the harsh environment for long -established camera manufacturers will continue.Collaboration with smartphone makers provides "camera technology" and "trust brand" and has a great advantage that new business opportunities can be obtained.There will be no doubt that the alliance between other camera manufacturers and smartphone manufacturers will accelerate in the future.
