Amazing work, and the living photo thing could be a hit.
Out of curiosity and a bit unrelated, I've been craving for real raw capture on the iPhone (before bayer interpolation, white balance, noise removal). Is it possible?
If you have a look at the data sheets, for example [1], you'll see YCbCr or RGB output formats being listed.
I guess it would make sense for as much signal processing to be done as early in the chain in the interests of lowering power consumption. (Less data to transfer over a serial bus into more circuitry, at the very least.)
In general sensors output raw and the ISP does the image pipeline including demosaicing, so a phone could support raw with different ISP firmware. (Reportedly Nokia wrote custom ISP firmware for their fancy camera, for example.) I wouldn't be surprised if one of the upcoming Samsung or Sony phone-cameras supports raw.
Out of curiosity and a bit unrelated, I've been craving for real raw capture on the iPhone (before bayer interpolation, white balance, noise removal). Is it possible?