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[Q] Desperate~

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

[Q] Can the Xperia Z ever take pictures like the old K800i?

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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IS the i9100 Galaxy S2 camera better than the Xperia ZR?

ZR is my dream phone well the Z is but due to so many hardware issuses and bad design I want to go with the ZR
But can the camera match my previous i9100 S2?
My S2 was incredible at taking photos especially at night. No noise at all.

The Samsung used SONY camera module till S3 Galaxy. The ZR takes incredible pictures once you do the settings right and for critical pictures use HDR Cam+ or other utilities like I do.

ZR gets better photo than GNexus. The camera sound effects can't mute by sound settings, I can't take photo of my sleeping kid with this. It's good camera among phones.
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I keep reading on review websites that the Z and ZR camera is horrible its really really bad
But some people are saying thats cause those guys are morons and don't enable HDR
can anyone confirm how the Z and ZR camera matches other phone cameras?

http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=1&idPhone1=5421&idPhone2=5204&idPhone3=3621

chewdaniel said:
http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=1&idPhone1=5421&idPhone2=5204&idPhone3=3621
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wow thanks holy crap
the S2 i9100 is significantly better sharper and less noise than the Z and ZR
the Z does look better than the ZR
how the heck a old phone like the i9100 S2 can have such a better camera? how is that even possible?

it's sony's post-processing and crap compression that screws up a great camera... it's the software :/

so can this be fixed using HDR?
what about rooting and flashing custom rom etc?

john5220 said:
so can this be fixed using HDR?
what about rooting and flashing custom rom etc?
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i believe it'll be fixed by next software updates.. as most of the reviews about the Xperia ZR camera was made on the 4.1 ROM ,and we have some positive feedbacks about camera quality and focus-speed enhancement in the new 4.2.2 update
so we need someone who is using the 4.2.2 ROM to confirm it..

DoO37 said:
i believe it'll be fixed by next software updates.. as most of the reviews about the Xperia ZR camera was made on the 4.1 ROM ,and we have some positive feedbacks about camera quality and focus-speed enhancement in the new 4.2.2 update
so we need someone who is using the 4.2.2 ROM to confirm it..
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4.2.2 user here.I can tell that the camera is way better,and for the lowlight shoting please turn off the SAM - superior auto mod. and try playing with the settings abit like stopping HDR / chosing Fill flash / focus - multi auto focus.It really gives a very good low light pictures.So basicly the camera is great for me here

effective said:
4.2.2 user here.I can tell that the camera is way better,and for the lowlight shoting please turn off the SAM - superior auto mod. and try playing with the settings abit like stopping HDR / chosing Fill flash / focus - multi auto focus.It really gives a very good low light pictures.So basicly the camera is great for me here
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Thanks @effective for confirming :good:
and guys don't listen to just one review specially the one from Phonearena.. it's the worst review ever for the ZR and you may see the positive comments there for the users..
you can just only check the photos quality from Here ,but don't read the the whole page you'll hate the phone
the photo's aren't that perfect.. but they're still great for me (note that these photos were taken on the 4.1.2 FW)

DoO37 said:
Thanks @effective for confirming :good:
and guys don't listen to just one review specially the one from Phonearena.. it's the worst review ever for the ZR and you may see the positive comments there for the users..
you can just only check the photos quality from Here ,but don't read the the whole page you'll hate the phone
the photo's aren't that perfect.. but they're still great for me (note that these photos were taken on the 4.1.2 FW)
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No probs man here u go a link from here that some ppl incl me made some pics with the phonie - 4.1.2 firmware tho.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389624

[Q] Did the Camera of the XZ improved?

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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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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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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dreamville said:
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?

nguyenvuloc said:
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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Post your Shots from Xperia Z(with details of the app & ROM)

As I'm getting New Xperia Z in place of Xperia Z ultra, I searched about Xperia Z and came across the bad camera quality.....
Its a software issue(i read it),Burst mode had better image quality than superior mode...and other things
so people who installed custom rom ,did they also face the same camera problems or are they getting better image quality from their Z
So i wanna ask you all to post your images from Z & do include your Camera app name and the Rom you r using...
if you know how to take better images from Z,please share it here...

No xperia don't have bad camera quality. I had a XZ with Stock LP installed and images were very good using Superior Auto.
Now I have a LG G2 image quality is much worse than that of XZ.

ankitsxperiago said:
As I'm getting New Xperia Z in place of Xperia Z ultra, I searched about Xperia Z and came across the bad camera quality.....
Its a software issue(i read it),Burst mode had better image quality than superior mode...and other things
so people who installed custom rom ,did they also face the same camera problems or are they getting better image quality from their Z
So i wanna ask you all to post your images from Z & do include your Camera app name and the Rom you r using...
if you know how to take better images from Z,please share it here...
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Why would you get a xperia z over a xperia z ultra?
And the camera quality is amazing with both stock and custom rom

ankitsxperiago said:
As I'm getting New Xperia Z in place of Xperia Z ultra, I searched about Xperia Z and came across the bad camera quality.....
Its a software issue(i read it),Burst mode had better image quality than superior mode...and other things
so people who installed custom rom ,did they also face the same camera problems or are they getting better image quality from their Z
So i wanna ask you all to post your images from Z & do include your Camera app name and the Rom you r using...
if you know how to take better images from Z,please share it here...
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One image from stock and one from custom

Dont get me wrong, but Jesus Christ you just choose really bad images to call it "amazing" 0_o
Not only both images are resized, so we cant see original detail, but also this amount of contrast and HUGE overexposure in second one is just hilarious bad.
Also first one have color filter so we dont see original colors that xz capture.
And look at the blurred corners of second image, behind that hilarious big overexposure at top...
I love my Xperia Z like probably most of you, but seriously stop bending the spacetime saying that it have good camera, because it dont have. It have really average one and in automatic mode its sometimes really bad.
I jumped to XZ from Xperia Arc S, and I was shocked that XZ take worst quality images than Arc S, especially with android LP.
I can even make blind compromising of XZ, Arc S, Neo V, Galaxy s4 and Galaxy Grant Prime(dont have more phones with me right now)... And I can ensure you that people would not choose XZ in terms of quality of picture.

post some more shots
Please post some more shots...from Xperia Z