Sony's new 64MP sensor wants to make your phone's zoom camera as good as the main one
Sony has launched the LYTIA 610, a 64-megapixel image sensor built around a pixel design the company claims nobody has mass-produced until now. Sony calls it the RB2×2 On-Chip Lens structure, and the whole point is to fix the camera most phones treat as an afterthought: the telephoto. Shipments start at the end of June 2026.
The target here is specific. On almost every multi-camera phone, the zoom lens lags behind the main one in sharpness and video. Sony built this sensor to shrink that gap.
How the new pixel design sharpens zoom shotsThe RB2×2 OCL layout runs two lens arrangements on one sensor at the same time. A 1×1 setup chases fine detail, while a 2×2 cluster handles phase-detection autofocus. Add a remosaicing algorithm tuned for this exact arrangement and Sony claims a 20% bump in spatial resolution over its older sensor with the same 0.7-micron pixels.
The target here is specific. On almost every multi-camera phone, the zoom lens lags behind the main one in sharpness and video. Sony built this sensor to shrink that gap.
How the new pixel design sharpens zoom shotsThe RB2×2 OCL layout runs two lens arrangements on one sensor at the same time. A 1×1 setup chases fine detail, while a 2×2 cluster handles phase-detection autofocus. Add a remosaicing algorithm tuned for this exact arrangement and Sony claims a 20% bump in spatial resolution over its older sensor with the same 0.7-micron pixels.
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