Apple hires Lumia camera lead engineer Ari Partinen, who worked on PureView cameras

[RedRound2]

 

The significance of the hire is a bit unclear. Partinen’s current title is ‘Lumia Photography Lead’ and has been in that role for roughly a year. His LinkedIn profile says he specialises in image quality and camera module tuning. Partinen is credited as one of the authors of a paper on PureView’s technology, which captures more megapixels than the target size, in order to improve image quality.

 

Working in field of mobile imaging. Currently I´m working with image quality characterization and tuning on camera module level. My current position has given me a good understanding of camera component production and quality control on global scale. I have also comprehensive knowledge about Image Quality testing and tuning on ISP level from very successful Nokia 808 PureView and Nokia N8 projects.

 

Before his Lumia position, Partinen led camera imaging at Nokia as ‘Senior Design Engineer’ since March 2007. Partinen says he will start at Apple next month. His new seniority and position at Apple are not yet known, although — given his previous job — it seems likely he will work on future iPhone cameras.

 

And also It's official that Apple purchased Beats for $3.2 Billion

 

SOURCE: http://9to5mac.com/2014/05/09/apple-hires-senior-lumia-camera-engineer-ari-partinen-who-worked-on-nokias-pureview-cameras/

Edited May 9, 2014 by RedRound2

[Homicidium]

And he edited the title

 

On topic: Curious on how this will change things with the iPhone's camera, since it's already one of the best cameras in a smartphone. I'm expecting some epic things!

[ShadowCaptain]

SWEEEEET

 

the iPhone camera is already fantastic, this will just make it amazing

[StingBull]

While they may improve the camera, I don't think Apple will make anything like PureView. I also don't think they will give the user manual control like Nokia does.

[RedRound2]

While they may improve the camera, I don't think Apple will make anything like PureView. I also don't think they will give the user manual control like Nokia does.

 

Nope, apple will definitely not make something like a 41MP iPhone (at least at its current state)

 

Simplicity of the iPhone's camera is the beauty of it. Most people don't tinker around with manual settings and I've seen phones with the wrong settings enabled resulting is a bad image quality. That's one of the reasons why iPhones produce the best images around. And if you're desperate, then all you have to do is download some apps from the App Store, no big deal