New iPad Same Camera Sensor
MacRumors are reporting that following iFixit’s tear down of the third generation iPad that ‘the most interesting – though perhaps unsurprising – discovery is that Apple has apparently reused cameras from prior products for both the front and rear cameras on the new iPad’.
If you look at the image of the camera below, it is apparently the same 5 megapixel CMOS Image Sensor that was used in the iPhone 4.
The front camera in the new third generation iPad is the 0.3 megapixel Omnivision unit that is also in the iPad 2.
By recycling as many parts as they can Apple can keep their costs down and profits up, of course.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter BA (Hons), ARPS is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator, and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.
