Sony has just announced its very first smartphone camera sensor with LOFIC tech, the LYTIA L910. It is made to improve photography and videography in challenging light conditions.
As a reminder, Sony announced the LYT-901 camera sensor back in November last year. That became the company’s flagship camera sensor, a nearly 1-inch camera sensor. It did not include LOFIC, however. That sensor is used in both the Vivo X300 Ultra and OPPO Find X9 Ultra, arguably two of the best camera smartphones out there at the moment.
The Sony LYTIA L910 is the company’s first sensor with LOFIC tech
Having said that, the LYTIA L910 is a 1/1.28-inch stacked CMOS sensor; it’s a 50-megapixel sensor. It offers a 1.22um pixel size. The LYT-901, on the other hand, is a 200-megapixel camera sensor, as many of you know.
The highlight feature of the LYTIA L910 is its ability to achieve a dynamic range of up to 100 dB from a single exposure. This helps reduce motion blur and flickering when you take pictures of moving subjects or bright light sources.
Sony actually decided to pair the LOFIC architecture with Triple Conversion Gain HDR technology in order to achieve this. The sensor reads info from a single exposure at three different conversion gains.
Sony says that this helps it minimize highlight clipping while reducing noise in shadows. That should end up resulting in more balanced images with smooth tonal transitions.
Sony also talked about the Ultra High Conversion Gain circuit technology
The company also mentioned Ultra High Conversion Gain circuit technology for the first time while announcing this sensor. That tech improves charge-to-voltage conversion efficiency. Sony says that random noise is reduced by around 30% compared to the LYTIA 828 sensor.
The LYTIA L910 also has an optimized circuit design that reduces power consumption during image processing. This sensor can record 4K HDR video at 60 FPS while having great HDR performance at the same time.
Sony is planning to begin mass-producing this image sensor in the summer of 2026. The Vivo X500 series and/or OPPO Find X10 series could be the first to utilize it.
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