It's been revealed that Vivo's next flagship camera phone, the X300 Pro, will use Sony's brand new LYT-828 image sensor. Positioned as a successor to the current LYT-818 (a sensor first used by the preceding Vivo X200 Pro), the new design is a 1/1.28-inch stacked CMOS sensor with a 50 megapixel resolution. Nothing particularly noteworthy there, but the LYT-828 has a different trick up its sleeve.
It utilizes a new Hybrid Frame-HDR (HF-HDR) technology: this takes traditional single-frame HDR using Dual Conversion Gain and combines it with multi-frame HDR during post processing. It's said that this fusion of HDR technologies enables overall dynamic range in excess of 100 dB (around 17 stops).
