topic Re: XPERIA SP CAMERA PROBLEM. in XPERIA archive

XPERIA SP CAMERA PROBLEM.

sourabhsharma — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:02:17 GMT

I am having a Sony Xperia SP and what i feel about the camera is worst.On zooming the photograph it is blur....

need some help from sony side to improve the camera quality of the phone. either by some software update or something else.

hope sony will help...

Re: XPERIA SP CAMERA PROBLEM.

Uliwooly — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:20:59 GMT

its DIGITAL zoom not OPTICAL zoom, that's normal, if you zoom when you take a picture it will be similar to take picture > zoom in and then crop it, there's nothing wrong with your phone.

Re: XPERIA SP CAMERA PROBLEM.

sourabhsharma — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:22:52 GMT

hello, i know its digital zoom but as compared to my old phone xperia mini which is 5 megapixel camera gives better results than xperia sp.

also compared to samsung galaxy grand, xperia sp gives more blur picture than grand....

Re: XPERIA SP CAMERA PROBLEM.

sourabhsharma — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:26:53 GMT

another person facing the same problem posted in this forum.

he posted this-

May 14, 2013 6:47 AM (in response to Rickard)

Re: Noise problem in Sony Xperia SP camera images, Can be resolved??? I checked camera quality of Xperia SP with a few competing phones in photo comparison tool of Gsmarena and it found to be a lot noisy and there was no sharpness. Even I compared with previous year's Xperia P (also 8MP) and found P to be a lot better than SP. What is happening Sony? Many manufacturers are buying your camera sensors and producing great results and compete with your own phones. There was a lot of boasting about the new sensor. And still? I waited a lot to buy this phone and was happy with the specs and price even though VGA front cam and 8GB internal memory was something to adjust with. I still wants to buy this if the camera issue could be solved by a software update. Hope Sony developers take this seriously and resolve it soon. People do a lot of research these days to find a phone suiting them. A lot of reviews are out there. So be careful. I sold my Xperia J to upgrade to SP after its announcement and I am still waiting to buy. Hope you resolve it soon

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Uliwooly — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:30:49 GMT

I think you should post your pictures, also which settings are you using on your camera app?

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Fibz — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:15:17 GMT

You see for yourself using this photo comparison tool at gsmarena. This gives comparison between Xperia SP with Xperia P and Galaxy S3. You could see a lot of extra colours (red, green) coming as coloured noise. You could toggle between various images to see colour pictures reaching nowhere near the other phones. They are faded out with no sharpness and presence of noise. This is a comparison with Nokia 520 and S Duos. Those 5 megapixel cameras produce better results with very less noise. Please give an explanation for this reduction of quality of pictures. i know lot of other manufacturers are using your camera sensors. But they produce better results. You may get many other resources for photo comparison and most reviews say SP's camera performance as below average or poor. I believe you could do better with your latest camera sensors. It may be the software making the problem. Please, we need a solution for this. Maybe you could solve this with a software update? I am not a user of SP. But it is high in my list. But a few flaws like this is a dealbreaker. Especially when you compare with competing phones. Hope you will take this serious and find a solution soon.

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Fibz — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:01:04 GMT

No reply from Sony Support still..?!!

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Jasonwsc — Mon, 27 May 2013 10:45:08 GMT

Seriously would you guys just stop complaining about the camera. I know it's terrible, but seriously do any of you make it a point to look at reviews before buying the phone? I chose the Xperia SP over the V because I am willing to sacrifice the camera for a faster GPU and a larger battery. It's your phone anyway, and I would rather be happy than complain on forums all day long.

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Fibz — Mon, 27 May 2013 11:16:53 GMT

Dear Jason,

I know that SP is competing with last year flagships and also some high-end phones of this year. I am trying to bring the problem into Sony support team's notice. We expect an answer for our concern. And I believe a forum like this is a platform for that purpose. SP excels almost everywhere except camera compared to similar priced phones. And I believe that the Cybershot manufacturers could do an excellent job with their new sensor. You could see comments about this below average camera performance in all reviews. If Sony do anything about it, its going to help them too. They have a great camera technology in their hand and have a lot of experience in that field. So we expect excellent camera performance from them. Once everyone used to say that Sony Cybershot mobilephones had the best cameras. So people expect that from Sony. If you don't mind the poor performance of SP's camera thats your personal opinion only. You have a nice hardware for taking pictures. So if something is going wrong in the processing side, its better to get it rectified, right? If Sony do something about this, it may bring a good number of people who are worried to buy SP just because of this problem. If they could do some optimizations in processign algorithms or whatever. As far as I know they have enough potential for solving this. So why shouldn't we bring the point into their notice?

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jluisfa — Mon, 27 May 2013 13:39:33 GMT

I put off buying because of the same reasons mentioned by Fibz.

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ccwong7510 — Mon, 27 May 2013 14:46:43 GMT

There is practically no harm complaining & is 100% free. After all $$ is paid. This shud b view as feedback for improvement. Sony shud thank us for the time spend to feedback. If thing get fix in the next patch release isn't tat going 2 b sweet?

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Fibz — Fri, 31 May 2013 10:54:50 GMT

ccwong7510 wrote:

:smileyplus:

May be some people dont't care about their money.

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lexva — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:50:54 GMT

Poor camera, poor wifi connections and a screen that attracts dirt like a magnet put me off buying this mobile. I was banking on its smaller size, fast processor and big battery but good wifi connection especially is very important

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ringhiowebmaste — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:39:13 GMT

Hi, someone can try different app to take picture? such us procapture, camera fx and camera fv-5? If the problem is similar to xperia's z we can solve it in this way untill bug fix will arrive

I'm sure that the problem is only software :smileygrin:

Re: XPERIA SP CAMERA PROBLEM.

Fibz — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:00:14 GMT

I am still waiting for the fix to decide buying this phone. When I am waiting, more and more common issues are raising against SP like Wifi and display problems. I expected a lot from Sony while they announced this phone. I even gave away my XJ to buy this one. I was that much impressed with this one.

Apart from all these my worst concern is the lack of support from Sony people in this forum. They are not addressing the issues well. Do they think that our questions and worries doesn't deserve to be answered? Or are they still studying the issue?

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ringhiowebmaste — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:52:40 GMT

I hear a noise like a tac whilei take picture with fotocamera. Is it Normal???

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psychok9 — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:25:19 GMT

Damn, this phone it's amazing... I am forced to buy another brand for the camera? this makes me angry ...Please, support, can you answer and fix it?

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farful — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:51:03 GMT

Just got the phone before few days, was reading the reviews, knew the camera is not good but decided to give it a shot. But camera is just terrible, even after i knew that is not good, so much noise surprised me. 3-4 years old phones can make better photos. If you plan to watch the images on wide screen monitor, you can consider you have no camera at all,. Hope Sony will fix things up:smileyconfused:

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XperiaOwner — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:57:11 GMT

I've had this phone for around a month now, and I really like it - except for the camera. I signed up knowing this, but it's still a real disappointment.

I just downloaded the vignette app to see if this could produce better images, but unfortunately it does not solve the general mushiness of the images. It doesn't apply quite as much sharpening by default which some might prefer, but images still look more like water colour paintings than photos when enlarged.

I find it hard to believe that one of the supposed selling points for this phone is a sony EXMOR RS camera sensor. The image quality from this camera is far inferior to the standard non-backside illuminated camera on my old HTC Sensation - a two year old 8MP job, that wasn't really highly rated back then.

I do wonder whether Sony have purposely crippled the camera on this phone to avoid stepping on the toes of the Xperia Z.

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Jericho1 — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 08:15:27 GMT

Got my xperia sp a week ago, the camera of this phone was so disappointing, I've read alot of review and it was said that it did not have a good camera although it has exmor rs, however I was shock that the quality is below average (it's not what I'm expecting) , lots of noise and the pictures a bit red and oranged.

Hope Sony will fix this asap..

Equipped with exmor RS then it should be on the higher level of photo quality, however my nokia 5530 a 4 year old phone captures much better photo.