Sony Z1 Compact Photography Thread - Xperia Z1 Compact General

Future Z1 Compact user here (still waiting for it to be release here in our region)!
Haven't seen a camera samples thread here so I started one. Share our pics, tricks, and tips here!

Sample
Here are some pictures from reviews. These are taken from Recombu and in no way belongs to me.
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Manual 8 MP; Auto ISO (80)
Manual 8 MP; ISO 400

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Here are some pictures from reviews. These are taken from Recombu and in no way belongs to me.
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Manual 8 MP; Auto ISO (80)
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Tip no. 1 .... Don't use Auto mode. It sucks.

Arthur Hucksake said:
Tip no. 1 .... Don't use Auto mode. It sucks.
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Superior Auto mode sucks... Manual Mode with Auto ISO doesn't.

Manual, 8 mpix
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Manual 8mp night scene. Also I might just suck at photography.
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Suggest people use flickr so we can see the settings used. tapatalk is useless at understanding how the camera works.
if you cannot do that then mention iso, shutter speed & scn mode (if any). This will get you looking at these parameters and help to understand why shots don't turn out as expected or how to get better ones.

Here's one of my test shots, I really like the dynamic range of the camera (see shadow detail)
F/2, 1/800s, ISO 50, Manual Mode @ 20MP (iirc)
original (left) and edited with Snapseed (right)

Good concert samples from louis0815
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50454715&postcount=2

Is anyone else finding the shutter lag really bad on this phone? After I press the capture button it seems like it freezes the frame and takes a photo, but then clearly continues the exposure for another half second or so before finalizing, meaning if you move the camera it goes into blursville.
In general it seems pretty bad at capturing anything in motion (and I mean mild motion, not requiring sports mode).
I'm really stunned as to how Sony can have allowed such a flawed camera onto a flagship device. In ideal conditions like sunlight etc it takes AMAZING photos, pretty much digicam quality... but you almost need a tripod to get a clear shot in lower light conditions. It's a bit of a bummer for a device which is in every other respect awesome.

Richdog said:
Is anyone else finding the shutter lag really bad on this phone? After I press the capture button it seems like it freezes the frame and takes a photo, but then clearly continues the exposure for another half second or so before finalizing, meaning if you move the camera it goes into blursville.
In general it seems pretty bad at capturing anything in motion (and I mean mild motion, not requiring sports mode).
I'm really stunned as to how Sony can have allowed such a flawed camera onto a flagship device. In ideal conditions like sunlight etc it takes AMAZING photos, pretty much digicam quality... but you almost need a tripod to get a clear shot in lower light conditions. It's a bit of a bummer for a device which is in every other respect awesome.
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I haven't notice this on mine. My kid is constantly on the move and don't usually have problems getting a good shot.
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Gothenburg
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Yep. A lot better than Davenport, Iowa USA.
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I haven't taken that many pictures but I really like the colours in this one. That's done on superior auto at 8mp. One thing that annoys me is that you can't set superior auto to use the full 20mp
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Dear all,
Would you mind checking the manufacturing date of your Z1C and share?
I wrote in a different thread:
I bought the device and I was very disappointed with the camera. I tried different modes and settings and in all of them the same photos I took with the galaxy S2 were significantly better (more focused, less noise, more vivid colors, more details in crops..) ! (regular scenes/light conditions).
In addition I have the flash leakage problem..
Also the camera looses focus during video capture..
...
I think maybe the first manufacturing line has these problems which are also reported online, could you kindly check the manufacturing date of your device?
Mine is Oct, 2013 (black version)
Thanks !!

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Those look really beautiful to me. What settings did you use for these?

Sponge.BoB said:
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I bought the device and I was very disappointed with the camera. I tried different modes and settings and in all of them the same photos I took with the galaxy S2 were significantly better (more focused, less noise, more vivid colors, more details in crops..) ! (regular scenes/light conditions).
In addition I have the flash leakage problem..
Also the camera looses focus during video capture..
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I'm also a bit disappointed by the camera to be honest. My previous phone was the galaxy S2. In my opinion the camera performs pretty bad under low lightning (manual mode, no settings touched) and also not really special under normal conditions. Maybe I just suck at photographing.
I don't have any flash leakage problem though.

Related

SGS II Camera shots

Hi, I decided to buy SGS II as soon as it will be on stock in my country. For now there is so few reviews with full res. photos. Many people will be glad to see camera quality from real users. So please share some photos with us. Many THX
PS: Its not condition, but only full 8Mpx resolution photos show the real quality and amount of detail and sharpness of the photos.
Here are some untouched Macro shots taken in my backyard in fading light with the Galaxy S II, was a bit windy so the flowers kept moving:
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Nice macros, I can imagine better shots without wind and with some exposure correction EV -0.5 or EV -1 you will get more sharpness and contrast...THX I will doubt more mates will join and show off their own photos...I will appreciate some sceneries and middle range photos in good light conditions...
I'll get some done later.
I'll post a few for you shortly. Stay tuned
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Here are my shots from the weekend.
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THX for your contribution, but they are TOO small for discovering quality of photos could you please upload at least zip file with originals??? That would by really great...
The outside pics are odd, my phone seems to have flipped them, lol
Apologies for my $2 dinner.
I quickly snapped some around the house earlier. I'm still getting to grips with the best way to get good photos with this camera, but I'm extremely impressed with it. Best Android camera I've used.
Photos are here: https://picasaweb.google.com/danwoolstencroft/SamsungGalaxyS2Samples#
I've uploaded the full res images.
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The outside pics are odd, my phone seems to have flipped them, lol
Apologies for my $2 dinner.
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please refrain from posting pictures of food and naked ladies.
very nice photos...it seems that SGS II camera is very good in focusing for near and middle distances (up to 5-8m). Macro is nice oo...maybe far distances wont be so nice and sharp but still great result in good light conditions...
PS: Beautiful dogs, I have black one at home...
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PS: Beautiful dogs, I have black one at home...
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Thanks!
Yeah, the longer range stuff does seem to lack a little sharpness at the moment. I don't know if I can overcome that with the settings or not. Macro and reasonably close range stuff is excellent, and it's taking some brilliant pictures of my kids.
I haven't done a vast amount of low light stuff yet either.
Also quite importantly, it's quick. I've found that compared to the iPhone, a lot of smartphone cameras take a while to actually get the shot, or to load up so you can start using them. SGS2 does neither, it's quick to load in, and the shots are pretty much instant in the right mode.
I'll try and get a sports mode example too, that's quite a fun toy to play with. It'll track a moving target in a panorama mode.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/864/20110510151306.jpg/
a pic of my camera
nice shot, hope to see more low light performance ;-)
Daytime pix are great but pix at night with flash give off this yellow tinge
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Daytime pix are great but pix at night with flash give off this yellow tinge
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Notice the yellowish on right side of photo, it seem like many of the user of sgs2 having this problem on led flash, and it all occur at the right handside of photo
this made me remember on the n86 led flash ---> yellowish led light. May I know sgs2 flash light color is white or yellowish?
I was messing around with the macro on one of the grass shots but I didn't tap focus for any of the pics, just point and click. For the first two I think they look like that because I was pointing the lens in the direction of the sun to see how they would come out.
macro mode
how do you set the camera to macro mode, on the xperia x10 it was in the settings with a tulip icon but can't find it on the sgs2? any help would be appreciated.
THX for your contribution, but they are TOO small for discovering quality of photos could you please upload at least zip file with originals??? That would by really great...
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Are you using xda app to view this? Or pc? I'm uploading the photos straight from gallery via xda app.
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how do you set the camera to macro mode, on the xperia x10 it was in the settings with a tulip icon but can't find it on the sgs2? any help would be appreciated.
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Camera > Settings > Focus Mode > Macro.

How to get a better low light picture

Just found out how to make good low light pictures with some changes in camera settings.
The settings are :
Manual mode
change the EV to +1.0
flash on
HDR off
Here are 2 pictures to show the differences:
Superior auto:
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Settings above:
-This settings are exceptional when you shoot near objects,like people,pictures in the room..
-Try it yourself and report.
-Thank me if you find this thread helpful.
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Night scene does a decent job taking low light pictures. Better than superior auto.
If you reduce the resolution for some reason helps make better low light pics.
DrKrFfXx said:
Night scene does a decent job taking low light pictures. Better than superior auto.
If you reduce the resolution for some reason helps make better low light pics.
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Not better than my settings, try it yourself.
Night scene:
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I can't seem to find "Contrast" settings?
Do you mean Exposure Value (EV)?
Sorry for that,yes it's EV.
I will fix that in the post
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Look stop asking for a perfect photo in complete darknes. Yes Lumias illuminate a room in an bizzare way, but that is so artifitial. The point of LOW LIGHT is that when there IS SOME LIGHT the phone captures SOME MORE DETAIL. It's not meant to be a night vision feature. LOW LIGHT - even in the name it indicates that there has to be some light.
And with the recent updates it takes relly good lowlights in superior auto.
Sidd_9 said:
Look stop asking for a perfect photo in complete darknes. Yes Lumias illuminate a room in an bizzare way, but that is so artifitial. The point of LOW LIGHT is that when there IS SOME LIGHT the phone captures SOME MORE DETAIL. It's not meant to be a night vision feature. LOW LIGHT - even in the name it indicates that there has to be some light.
And with the recent updates it takes relly good lowlights in superior auto.
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Nobody's asking for a perfect photo. He's just sharing what what he found that is taking good photos in low light.
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@Sidd_9 Okey,but the 'Low light' is bad at superior mode,and night scene is nothing better.
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it really depends on what you classify as a "better" low light photo.
OPs photo is one that is lit up brightly with the flash, and looks like you have the light in the room turned on.
But others may want a photo which shows the ambience of the scene in low light, and have a more evenly exposed photo albeit it being a bit darker overall.
End of the day, depends on what you are trying to capture in your photo.
If you can hold it still, use fireworks mode:
electric0ant said:
it really depends on what you classify as a "better" low light photo.
OPs photo is one that is lit up brightly with the flash, and looks like you have the light in the room turned on.
But others may want a photo which shows the ambience of the scene in low light, and have a more evenly exposed photo albeit it being a bit darker overall.
End of the day, depends on what you are trying to capture in your photo.
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If u want to make a photo for examp. to your friends. They will be dark and hard to see with superior mode.
I just hate that. It's more detailed and more light with this manual settings like with an S4 or HTC One.
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If you can hold it still, use fireworks mode:
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You think I didn't tried it?
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svaka cas majstore
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How bout shooting friends at night? Any sample +settings?
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you may limit the ISO, to 400 or 800 with EV+1
Noise will greatly reduced, but you must hold steady too...
boyq said:
How bout shooting friends at night? Any sample +settings?
-sent from that phone below
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A gun with a laser sight
Thanks to the OP I tried this with my ZR and it works a treat.
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Starlith said:
Thanks to the OP I tried this with my ZR and it works a treat.
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Np
Tried something else,the pictures are better at night with superior mode when you shoot landscapes.
So, this settings are only for near objects,like people,pictures in the room..
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beni8978 said:
Np
Tried something else,the pictures are better at night with superior mode when you shoot landscapes.
So, this settings are only for near objects,like people,pictures in the room..
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Night portrait and night works good too for me.
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For landscapes, yes
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Take DSlr like pictures from gs4???

Hi people!!
Just wondering if anyone is aware of a app or mod etc that can take clear pictures like a dlsr if not just clearer ....cause seems to me sometimes the pics are fugly....
Here is a example. ..This is my camera gs4
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And is captured by friend.. pic atleast is it possible to have 30% of the clarity this pic has(HE IS NOT A PROFESSNAL)
Also the pic above is NOT edited its directly from the guys super cheap camera which watermarked it for him. ...
His camera is some Sony thing costing 200$ while 860$ (atleast when i got it) phone captures crap:banghead:
If the app is paid no problem ill buy it...
I am rooted on official UAE ROM.
Thanks a bunch. .
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Had to thank you, because your post indeed was funny and you asked for it in your last line
Unless the OP is sarcastic, no mobile phone can match a P&S camera, let alone DSLR. Only Pureview had a good sensor, and was somewhat comparable to low end P&S compacts. But those photos you posted above are not a fair comparison. One is taken at low light, and the other under bright condition. Great Low light photos are still a dream of any users, including SLR users like me.
S4 camera is just above average, that's that.
As the comment before me stated...its not a fair comparison at all...due to the light difference...I take pretty decent shots on my s4 for instagram....I use Camera FV-5 ...which is pretty good
Sarcastic. ... yes little...now you see iphone 4 camera is better compared to s3 and 4s is better s4 NOW better means clarity in low light conditions. ... its also possible my phones faultly lol...
Oh yeah btw what's preferred 4:3 or 6:9 in camera settings
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I like S4 camera..... Personal Images.
i have taken quite a few pictures with my i9500 at night and i can say that they are wayyyyyyyy better than the one u post ...
plus no phone can shoot very well at night ... and because u mentioned iphone4 i saw pictures taken from it ... and in my eyes at least they are not better in any way especially night shots ...
maybe your settings aren't right ... but in any way don't except something spectacular at least at night ...
I bought an apple but my friend has an orange that tastes a lot more orangy. Is there a way for me to make my apple taste more like orange, or even grapefruit?
I agree with sadeshmagic. I have a DSLR camera and a Galaxy s4. There is no way to compare a cell phone camera to a DSLR camera. About galaxies pictures, the photos that I took with the galaxy s3 were better. I use Camera FV-5 and it is a decent camera app and give me better photos. I also use Camera ZOOM FX, but I thing the FV-5 is better.
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Best camera I have found so far for the GE edition is Focal from CM10.
Sell your S4 buy a proper camera and with the left over buy a cheaper phone. This is a phone not a DSLR camera. No phone will compare to a proper camera.
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@op Don.
I bought a mercedes benz the other day and my friend had a cheap dslr (20 times cheaper than my car). My car still can't take decent pictures from the rear parking camera . Very disappointed in Mercedes.
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plasmastate said:
@op Don.
I bought a mercedes benz the other day and my friend had a cheap dslr (20 times cheaper than my car). My car still can't take decent pictures from the rear parking camera . Very disappointed in Mercedes.
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LOL XD
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nikzDHD said:
Sell your S4 buy a proper camera and with the left over buy a cheaper phone. This is a phone not a DSLR camera. No phone will compare to a proper camera.
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Nah I am good.....
Anyways the app really helped ...thanks people
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Lol. My Mercedes joke aside, s4's camera is very capable of taking great pictures in good lightning. I really love the HDR mode of the camera. Pic I took 3 days ago. I have increased the picture vibrancy.
Original and Retouched
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Hideous image processing

What the actual ****, Sony?
I always noticed something was sheit about this camera and I kind of knew it was about the image processing but never realised just how had it is.
Standard picture, manual, 21mp 4:3, no HDR, fully zoomed in:
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How could you possibly ruin a picture so much? Not to mention the raw image from the 21mp shot has a much better quality than a frame from a video!
Does anyone know of a way to disable this?
Sony has messed up the camera with lag to launch it and to do a capture... I dont understand really what is the issue to improve that. I have readed that RAM is important.
dfavefenix said:
Sony has messed up the camera with lag to launch it and to do a capture... I dont understand really what is the issue to improve that. I have readed that RAM is important.
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RAM might be related to the launch issue but where is the problem in just disabling the anti-noise algorithm altogether?
ztv-- said:
Standard picture, manual, 21mp 4:3, no HDR, fully zoomed in:
Screenshot from a 4K video, no SteadyShot, H264, fully zoomed in:
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Fixed ur links for u
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WOW
looks like the camera app needs to be rewritten from scratch !
with camera2 api in mind maybe ?!
ztv-- said:
RAM might be related to the launch issue but where is the problem in just disabling the anti-noise algorithm altogether?
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Yeah, where is it. Algorithm is all broken around... Really it isn't understable. Sometimes I think if Sony has something under contract with the others companies and it messes up the software post process.... It's the unique lame in Sony right now if you see the Galaxy S7, LG G5, Huawei P9... Curious thing that Sony is the coolest thing in the sensor industry. Casualty or...
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Fixed ur links for u
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Ty, can't post links yet.
anasgets111 said:
WOW
looks like the camera app needs to be rewritten from scratch !
with camera2 api in mind maybe ?!
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It's nothing short of ridiculous that this phone does not fully support Camera 2 API yet. Sony has been marketing this phone all around the camera but they don't deliver anything.
I'll put up a post on the Sony forums and see how it turns out.
So if we want a good quality picture, record in 4k and take a screenshot? Lol
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So if we want a good quality picture, record in 4k and take a screenshot? Lol
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The best camera in the world, isnt? lol
I've noticed when you double tap to zoom in it zooms in A LOT. Meaning you see more noise/blurriness. In other phones when you double tap to zoom it doesn't zoom in as much so it looks sharper. But the camera is actually pretty good, SA sometimes gets it completely wrong in low light situation and the shutter lag is ridiculous. Takes too long to take a picture.
Ben36 said:
So if we want a good quality picture, record in 4k and take a screenshot? Lol
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That is literally what I did when I took a bike trip yesterday. Recorded about 1:40 minutes which resulted in almost a gigabyte of video and I extracted exactly 47 still images out of that.
You need a lot of storage but it's a possible workaround. Sad this camera ruins an otherwise great phone.
the camera supports manual controls with fv-5 camera app . Just no raw suport
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the camera supports manual controls with fv-5 camera app . Just no raw suport
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And only 8mp
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And only 8mp
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Nothing comes close as stock app with manual controls, like samsung or lg camera apps.
I tried that camera fv 5 or how it was called actualy, and i was not impressed at all.
I really like this phone, but I am dissapointed with the camera.
Also camera interface sucks, it is okay for auto mode but for manual mode you have to go in settings just to change iso or hdr? Really Sony?
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Sony has messed up the camera with lag to launch it and to do a capture... I dont understand really what is the issue to improve that. I have readed that RAM is important.
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They seemed to have improved it significantly in the Xperia X, which is ridiculous as its specs aren't more powerful than the Z5. They are also advertising 0.6 shutter response from standby and "almost instantaneous" shutter response from normal use of the app. Yet if you look at a few of the MWC demos, you can see the shutter response is faster but it still captures very slightly after... On the show floor there were two demos emphasizing the autofocus and shutter from standby, but few people filming there actually showed the shutter response conclusively.
Third party apps have the potential to have less shutter lag but I found the on-screen camera button and physical button to be often unresponsive, probably because the autofocus is badly optimized.

3rd Party Camera Apps for Xperia XZ Premium

Hey XZP owners is there any 3rd party camera apps which supports 19 mp full resolution setting. I already tried fv-5 and better camera but showing only 8 mp maximum resolution.
Open Camera is pretty much the best camera app in the store imo.
mukul93 said:
Hey XZP owners is there any 3rd party camera apps which supports 19 mp full resolution setting. I already tried fv-5 and better camera but showing only 8 mp maximum resolution.
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Someone posted that antuutu benchmark program says the rear camera is only 8.3MP. Maybe not an error after all. Can somebody download phone info and let us know that has the phone. I'll wont be getting my girlfriend's phone until after July 3rd
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You mean this one
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It's only 8.3 MP if you use 3rd party software. Reason is Sonys pathetic, no self-esteem move to LIMIT the API-2 interface to 8.3 in case 3rd party apps are being used.
Just so you understand this: You paid for a phone and Sony LITERALLY FREAKING TELLS YOU what software to use with it. They actually block it. And the best part of it, they don't even get their own freakin software straight.
I was so looking forward to this phone, seriously. Now I'm going to sell it, hope some dude pays ~650 $ and get me an S8 or HTC. Never ever ever again Sony. This is so so so ridiculous.
Return it and stop complaining.
Now Camera MX showing 19 mp full resolution. Enjoy.
mukul93 said:
Now Camera MX showing 19 mp full resolution. Enjoy.
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Nothing to enjoy here. Camera MX does not offer Camera API-2 support and hence can't make use of manual exposure or ISO settings. It's not about using "some" 3rd party app but making use of the cameras potential.
What about open camera from gp
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sfkaudi said:
What about open camera from gp
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Turn it on and see for yourself if you don't believe me.
Only 8 MP when using API2 and 1/10sec exposure time. Sony blocks it.
try this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riseupgames.proshot2
Open camera and camera zoom allow 19.2 selection.
Also in FV5 force the legacy driver and 19.2 is available.
Snap Camera, superior to all!
FartyParty said:
Snap Camera, superior to all!
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Interesting discussion...
Since I previously bought just about all camera apps in the past 4-5 years I confirm that the paid versions on Camera Zoom FX and Vignette both support full features. Again, these are the premium versions which do unlock extra features
Experia xz camera
An 19Mpixel camera only has 50% green 25% blou and 25%red pixels so 8,2Mpixels is not bad åt all!
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Interesting discussion...
Since I previously bought just about all camera apps in the past 4-5 years I confirm that the paid versions on Camera Zoom FX and Vignette both support full features. Again, these are the premium versions which do unlock extra features
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But is there any difference in image quality between those apps and the stock app? I've tried AOSP with the Google Camera and that is so much better than stock. There isn't really any difference between open camera and the xz2 camera app
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Moarten said:
But is there any difference in image quality between those apps and the stock app? I've tried AOSP with the Google Camera and that is so much better than stock. There isn't really any difference between open camera and the xz2 camera app
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How can I use Google camera? It's much better than Sony stock camera?
tainhao said:
How can I use Google camera? It's much better than Sony stock camera?
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Only if you have flashed AOSP (well maybe it works on stock but then there is no difference in image quality). The images are much sharper, have more detail and in low light they are a bit brighter. HOWEVER, you lose the noise reduction so there is a lot of noise in the images. You can correct this with an app like lightroom, but thats a lot of work if you just want to take a quick photo of something.
I've made some test photo's with AOSP and google camera a while ago. It was a lot darker when I took the bicycle photo's than the images suggest, but zoom in and you see the amount of detail (and noise) it has.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uJvTuUjjBqDZ3YzV3awAZldzFqFNniza
Moarten said:
Only if you have flashed AOSP (well maybe it works on stock but then there is no difference in image quality). The images are much sharper, have more detail and in low light they are a bit brighter. HOWEVER, you lose the noise reduction so there is a lot of noise in the images. You can correct this with an app like lightroom, but thats a lot of work if you just want to take a quick photo of something.
I've made some test photo's with AOSP and google camera a while ago. It was a lot darker when I took the bicycle photo's than the images suggest, but zoom in and you see the amount of detail (and noise) it has.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uJvTuUjjBqDZ3YzV3awAZldzFqFNniza
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Do you try this?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/pom-snappatch-xperia-aosp-t3777322
And this?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xz-premium/how-to/solved-xperia-aosp-problems-stock-t3776857
Is the noise reduction working with Google camera?

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