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Slow camera?

Trokamp — Tue, 17 May 2016 19:02:27 GMT

Hi

I am experiencing the camera on the z5 compact to be horribly slow. If I pan the camera while taking a photo, the resulting image is always further in the panning than when the shutter button was pressed. As if the camera waits a second or two before taking the photo.
Anyone else seeing this? Any Solutions?

Br,
Thomas

Re: Slow camera?

Uliwooly — Tue, 17 May 2016 19:03:57 GMT

@Trokamp

Things to test

settings > apps > camera > clear data > restart the phone

where are you saving the pictures?

are you on manual mode or superior auto or a different camera?

You can also test it in > > > safe mode

Re: Slow camera?

G94N — Wed, 18 May 2016 09:54:29 GMT

I'm having the same problem. The issue is present regardless of the resolution setting...

Re: Slow camera?

lambo — Wed, 18 May 2016 19:17:49 GMT

Unfortunately this is something that everyone experiences. It's quite disappointing and ruins all action shots.

Re: Slow camera?

G94N — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:18:52 GMT

Exactly And I wonder why Sony doesn't intend to fix this? Is it because nothing can't be done software-wise, maybe it's all have to do with the response speed of the camera hardware? Who knows...

Re: Slow camera?

totoroo — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:28:02 GMT

I think that what's described is the normal behavior (at least for me, went through few different region firmwares and updates since LP). There is a normal hardware lag and perhaps software, regardless of where you save the photos.

I noticed this as soon as I got the phone, last December, cause htc one spoilt me with its quite fast shutter and general faster camera response. But you learn to live with it, I guess, so I suggest doing that. Or write Sony and ask to improve it.

Seriously annoying camera lag in Z5C (Solved in Xperia X, any chances of a fix for our Z5 series?)

G94N — Mon, 30 May 2016 09:20:07 GMT

Hi,

Since the day I bought it, the most disappointing aspect of my Z5 Compact was that hopeless Camera shutter lag, where when you press the button to take a photo you get a rotating icon and it takes1-1.5 seconds to finish taking the photo. This is not a problem specific to Z5 Compact, I obversed the same issue on my brother's regular Z5 and all the other Z5 series owners have been complaining about this ever since. I've stumbled upon a video on YouTube where this guy is unboxing the new Xperia X and when he goes on and tests Xperia X's camera, he finds out that Xperia X takes photos with a lightning fast speed (actually that is the speed everyone was expecting from a high-end device such as Z5 series, even my old Note 2 was taking photos faster than my Z5 Compact). If you guys are interested, here is the unboxing video of Xperia X (at 9:29) and furthermore, the same YouTube user made a comparison video of Xperia X and Xperia Z5 where you can see the difference (at 5:09 until 5:56), and yes, my Z5 Compact behaves exactly the same as the regular Z5 in that video, which I assume all of you guys would agree, is ANNOYING! In terms of imaging hardware, X and Z5 are the same, and also Z5's SoC is slighly faster than the X's (S810 vs S650) so I'm wondering why do we have to deal with a lag festival everytime we have to take a photo on our Z5 series devices. Z5's superiority in terms of hardware to X compels me to think that this is a software optimization problem, right? Any chances we should expect an optimization/fix for our Z5 series soon?

Z5C - Camera app is sloooooooow

MartinK1 — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:51:43 GMT

I thought that the Z5 Compact was a premium phone ?

I record video in 1080p30, and whenever i stop recording, it takes like 10 seconds for the video to stop recording and be ready for the next picture/video ..

Starting the camera app and moving around the controls also feel very sluggish.

I record to the Internal memory (which should be fast.. no?) - i also have a Samsung SD Memory card which is rated to read/write at about 90MB/s .. should i use that instead ?

Thanks.

Re: Z5C - Camera app is sloooooooow

G94N — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:59:21 GMT

The Camera UI in our Z5 series, unfortunately, has never been very well optimized. It has always been laggy, especially when taking a picture (I mean the shutter lag) and also the post procecssing times both in photo and video modes are just mid-range class laggy... Not to mention that although Camera boot up time has improved, it still is not as "premium" as they say it is. However, same UI is running MUCH faster on the slightly newer X series (also, even on the Xperia X which has a less powerful chipset than Z5 series). All we can do now is to wait and hope all the improvements they did on X series will (AND SHOULD) be released for our Z5 series devices soon...

Re: Slow camera?

ADevotedFan — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 06:38:32 GMT

Any news regarding this matter?I have also experienced this lagg while taking a photo and also while I wait for the camera app to open. Sony can u plz reply to this issue my phone is Xperia z5 compact and it is almost now 6 months old.

Re: Slow camera?

Karlzzone — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:25:13 GMT

Hi!

I have the same problem with my z5 compact. Any news???

Is it possible that the stamina-mode makes the camera slow? It feels a little bit faster without stamina-mode.

Re: Slow camera?

WijMoon — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 22:44:02 GMT

I've just got a Z5 compact as an upgrade from a Z1 compact amd was shocked at how bad the camera was. I tried taking a video of my daughters school play and it was just a still with sound, also the shutter speed was very laggy.

I've turned fascial recognition off on both still and video, videos are now recording properly and shutter lag isn't as bad. Don't really need facial recognition as I tend to know the people I take photos of.

Hope this helps