I have owned the Xperia Z for a while now and it's a great mobile phone. The camera is great, mainly for it's macro capabilities. But it came to mind, my old Sony Ericsson K800i used to take some great pictures and it's strongest point was the fact that you could take a perfect picture of an object moving at high speed as long as the xeon flash could hit it. The timing was perfect and the picture would come out with absolutely no motion blur.
So I was wondering, do you think that was a hardware feature or something that could perhaps be implemented on our Zs using software?
Haha least there are people that remember the old se k800 k810 k850 c905 and satio with xenon I believe that the z takes good to great pics depending on the scene but any phone with xenon - even the Samsung and Nokia's released at the same time as the phone above - were great phones too.
Don't worry rumour has it there actually finally might again be a Sony phone with xenon/plasma flash with a nice lense/sensor :thumbup:
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Yes, they were great! I had the k800i for ages, even the software was nice. (I never liked symbian on the Nokia though)
I thought the Xperia Z would be similar on that respect or at least it could be accommodated with some software mod, but you reckon it's the xeon flash that makes the difference, right? Oh well, still a great phone =)
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Hi there! just a quick question but need a really detail and good answer here. I'm currently using a Xperia X8 which i bought a year ago. getting cranky now so I decided to buy a new SONY phone. I don't see any goodness in Samsung neither in Nokia due to the Windows OS so don't bother suggesting that. Just wanna know which phone should I get, Xperia SL or Xperia T? i love photography and both seem to provide almost what I need. Mind informing the pros and cons of getting both? and also I've used my friend's Xperia S for an hour and i used the XLOUD app, maxed the volume and played a song. It seems like my X8 have a better quality of sound compared to the S. fyi, its upgraded to ICS, he bought it recently, on 16th of October... the sound seems..pitchy and not really up to the "standard" i was looking forward to. So please help people cause in my hometown, SONY seems like an alien brand...
quick answer. get the T. its the more actual and more powerful device
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Yes, I too would recommend the T.
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+1 For Xperia T
Dual Core Snapdragon S4 Krait, extremely fast,
Sometimes faster than SGS3 or One X
13MP Sony Exmor Camera
Hi there, first timer here. I'm hoping that XDA will be able to help with this question since I've noticed that there're are a few members who have the Xperia S (XS)and plan on switching to Xperia Z (XZ). Anyway, here goes:
Basically, I'm thinking of switching from XS to XZ.
However I've seen many complaints about how the loudspeakers and camera are subpar, or not as good as expected.
To be honest I don't care if the phone isn't that great. I'd be more than happy if it's better than my XS.
That being said, to the XS and XZ users on XDA, what do you say? I'd really appreciate some feedback on the following two points before I decide to buy.
1) Is the XZ camera better than the XS camera?
Edit: Well, actually, is it alright to say that it is a significant improvement?
2) Are the XZ loudspeakers better than those on the XS?
Or do they sound better (yes, I know this is really subjective...)?
I switched from S to Z.
So far so good
I switched from T to Z...
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Yes it is! I had S for 8 months and Z rocks! :victory:
aprilius20 said:
1) Is the XZ camera better than the XS camera?
Edit: Well, actually, is it alright to say that it is a significant improvement?
2) Are the XZ loudspeakers better than those on the XS?
Or do they sound better (yes, I know this is really subjective...)?
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I'm coming from XS too.
S was (is) a great phone.
Z is superior to S.
1) Camera in certains conditions can easy outperform S.
2) Speaker sounds good when mobile left on the table etc in landscape mode watching videos etc. Its a bit better when it comes to sound quality, but can't see really difference in volume levels. With headphones it outperforms S aswell.
Screen, battery life. Everything is better. Plus, forget about lag. Nova launcher does the job more than perfect.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone.
I've made the switch from S to Z. Feels good so far
There's a Q/A, Help section, post questions there.
I don't know if this is possible. I think hardware is limited at 30fps:
https://developer.qualcomm.com/mobile-development/development-devices/snapdragon-s4-pro-apq8064-mdpt
I can't find official hardware camera specs, sorry. But maybe with a lower resolution and a custom kernel it is possible, isn't it?
Someone who knows much about this can answer us. I'm interesting in it too
Thank you!!!
(Sorry for my bad english)
Any progress? it'd be a great feature.....
Any possibility to have slow motion?
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Hope Soo..
Yeah.. I See all the thread inside the XDA, but it Seem Time Shift Video is unable to run greatly on Our Beloved XZ that can Take A Smooth Slow Mo video 120fps like XZ2 was, i do everything for what their said.. Root, Odex, Superuser Mod, But it useless.. Please someone, anything that might help.. the only thing that might help for now is install Xperia Z2 Movie Creator that can Make slow mo but not good as Time Shift Video was.. Have A Try Guys.. Search it on any thread.. I hope it would help..:good::good::good::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
i think u can
The Snapdragon S4 Pro is not capable of capturing 720p video at 120fps, therefore timeshift video is not possible.
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Moto x have Snapdragon S4 Pro(dual-core) and it have slowmotion...
on xperia Z it could be even vga 120fps, dont care to much about res.
Beside its hilarious that old LG Viewty from 2007 have this and flagship from 2013 dont have it...
Yeahh.. What ashamed..
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Moto x have Snapdragon S4 Pro(dual-core) and it have slowmotion...
on xperia Z it could be even vga 120fps, dont care to much about res.
Beside its hilarious that old LG Viewty from 2007 have this and flagship from 2013 dont have it...
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Moto X uses the same CPU as Xperia SP, but SP lacks slow motion recording too. I guess XZ's CPU is powerful enough to capture 120FPS at least in VGA resolution. But may be Sony do not want to put that because their latest flagships need more selling.
Who wants videos captured in 640*480 any more? It would cause more complaints that it was locked at such a low resolution than it's worth for Sony to provide the feature.
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We have to wait and to hope...
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Who wants videos captured in 640*480 any more? It would cause more complaints that it was locked at such a low resolution than it's worth for Sony to provide the feature.
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da what?
so what if it would be VGA? its still something, beside its not like you record Oscar movies using your phone... probably most of videos recorded using phone is party, fun with friends, or random events with crappy lighting. I can assure you that no matter what res you would use quality is still crappy, blurred(motion) and similar to VGA on 5" screen.
Most of my movies that I have on my phone is 720x400 and thx to good bitrate its look perfect on my xperia z.
Beside I can show you images taken using old SE k750i that would blow most of new cameras on phones. BECAUSE ALL DEPEND ON USER, I can shoot you good looking image using even pencil and some a$$ with DSLR for 3000$ would take selfi in McDonald.
VGA is still better than nothing.
Maybe to you it is better than nothing. The rest of us like our videos to look bigger than a postage stamp or not look like everything is made of Lego on other devices though.
Anyway, I was and am still mainly joking about the resolution, but my point was that I highly doubt they will bother to provide timeshift video if they have to lock it to such a low resolution, as it would just cause many complaints that you cannot use a higher resolution. You cannot expect them to backport every feature from new devices, especially if they have to cripple them to get them to even function.
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can anyone port timeshift video 120fps in 480p for xperia z?
Hi there,
I was excited when I bought my XZ yesterday. Everything's awesome about this device..except for one thing. The camera quality is a joke. I've had an Xperia Ion prior to the Z and that device's camera was way superior. I expected the quality to be better than the Ion's or at least the same. But this is not the case.
I'm feeling like using CameraZOOM fx improves the image quality a bit, but yet not well enough.
Does anyone know whether I can do something about this issue or not?
Thank you very much in advance.
There is a definite problem with the camera on this phone which so far Sony have both failed to acknowledge or fix.
The lense is the same as the S4 and the image quality on that is a million times better...
Strange
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Either take it back, cos it's faulty, or go to the optician, cos your eyes are faulty!
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Hi there,
I was excited when I bought my XZ yesterday. Everything's awesome about this device..except for one thing. The camera quality is a joke. I've had an Xperia Ion prior to the Z and that device's camera was way superior. I expected the quality to be better than the Ion's or at least the same. But this is not the case.
I'm feeling like using CameraZOOM fx improves the image quality a bit, but yet not well enough.
Does anyone know whether I can do something about this issue or not?
Thank you very much in advance.
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Wow...really?
Maybe have a read here.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39383273
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Hi @ all
I would like to know if the camera of the Xperia Z really improved since the 10.1.1.A.1.253 update:
gsmarena. com/sony_xperia_z_gets_firmware_update_improves_camera_quality-news-6041.php
I'm really interested to buy a Xperia Z but nearly all reviews of the XZ criticised the camera quality, especially pictures taken in low light.
Thanks in advance for your answers and sorry for the link, cant post a working one due to <10 Posts.
OZ22 said:
Hi @ all
I would like to know if the camera of the Xperia Z really improved since the 10.1.1.A.1.253 update:
gsmarena. com/sony_xperia_z_gets_firmware_update_improves_camera_quality-news-6041.php
I'm really interested to buy a Xperia Z but nearly all reviews of the XZ criticised the camera quality, especially pictures taken in low light.
Thanks in advance for your answers and sorry for the link, cant post a working one due to <10 Posts.
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Camera quality is pretty good, now im ruinning 4.3 and before that 4.1 camera had some extra options like HDR and all, now most of the settings are composed into single ones, there is also one HDR in manual mode, overall performance is good, now it opens fast.
here i post some pics i took with it, i didnt do any corrections on photos.
Why don't you bump it up and buy a z1 it has a better.camera (I didn't try it my self) a few bucks wouldn't hurt
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Hi @ all
I would like to know if the camera of the Xperia Z really improved since the 10.1.1.A.1.253 update:
gsmarena. com/sony_xperia_z_gets_firmware_update_improves_camera_quality-news-6041.php
I'm really interested to buy a Xperia Z but nearly all reviews of the XZ criticised the camera quality, especially pictures taken in low light.
Thanks in advance for your answers and sorry for the link, cant post a working one due to <10 Posts.
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yes get the z1, it's got a better cpu, gpu, camera and battery size, the additional cost for it is worth it
Lol. The photos are mine.
Still auto mode and pics in low light still suck bigtime!! To be hounest, i feel a bit disapointed... The cameras of sony are reasenable good,so i thought that the camera was gonna kick my galaxy nexus his ass,but in low light. My nexus is not kicking sone Xz ass but kills it!
Moral of this story......buy a Z1 whahaha
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demon2112 said:
Still auto mode and pics in low light still suck bigtime!! To be hounest, i feel a bit disapointed... The cameras of sony are reasenable good,so i thought that the camera was gonna kick my galaxy nexus his ass,but in low light. My nexus is not kicking sone Xz ass but kills it!
Moral of this story......buy a Z1 whahaha
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Hahahahaha. Haha.
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demon2112 said:
Still auto mode and pics in low light still suck bigtime!! To be hounest, i feel a bit disapointed... The cameras of sony are reasenable good,so i thought that the camera was gonna kick my galaxy nexus his ass,but in low light. My nexus is not kicking sone Xz ass but kills it!
Moral of this story......buy a Z1 whahaha
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camera on z1 is not anywhere better (except for the mp count)
the hardware (camera) of z1 and is godly, but the software and image processing of sony is...meh.
i'm a fan of sony, but i think they should consider to look into galaxy s4's image processing, even though gs4 and xz has the same sensor, the image quality is different
Yeah definitely agree with u guys, the image quality in low light condition really suck. My xperia z always show purple dots or pixel in the black colored area. It feels like sensor problem, did u guys experienced it as well?? Or is it just me?
Thx
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Please don't complain about the camera i had the chance to try Samsung Note 2, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Note 3 and i can say for a fact that they all do bad pictures for the megapixels they have. Cameras on phones are decent but still not as good as a dedicated digital camera.
Camera on 4.3 sucks! The noise level is crazy! Don't even need to zoom in and I can see the noise very clearly.
Can confirm the s4 comparison. I did a side by side test fiddling with different options and the s4 came out on top. Thought Sony would have the camera software on lock
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Can confirm the s4 comparison. I did a side by side test fiddling with different options and the s4 came out on top. Thought Sony would have the camera software on lock
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agreed, it's better for sony to focus on their image processing technology, my dad has an s4 and his picture is around 5~10MB per photo, that's a size too large maybe, but the detail is really good, sony should decreasing their over-compressing of the photos.
Some one tried to put Camera libs and app from a 4.2 firmware on 4.3? New Camera for me is really bad
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Yeah definitely agree with u guys, the image quality in low light condition really suck. My xperia z always show purple dots or pixel in the black colored area. It feels like sensor problem, did u guys experienced it as well?? Or is it just me?
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Yeah definitely agree with u guys, the image quality in low light condition really suck. My xperia z always show purple dots or pixel in the black colored area. It feels like sensor problem, did u guys experienced it as well?? Or is it just me?
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Mine is fine. Is it always there?
CambaStorm said:
Some one tried to put Camera libs and app from a 4.2 firmware on 4.3? New Camera for me is really bad
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Maybe we need someone to make a flashable zip of JB's camera
My friend's S4 takes better pictures in lowlight.
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Xz camera really sucks , my old htc one x tooked a 5times better pictures comparing to this crap camera ,and it was 8mpx ,shame sony did such a good phone with such a disatering camera , and after 5 updates for that phone no improvement ,
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Yeah bit disappointing,it's great when there is plenty light but indoor Is garbage
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