About the camera

[Daloch]

I just would like to know if someone has the same problem than me.

Sony talks a lot about the 13Mpx Exmor R camera in this phone, but I realize that the pictures that I take, even outside in a sunny day, has very very low quality.

I don't understand how a 13Mpx camera only gives a 3Mb picture (other phones with only 5Mpx camera, gives better quality, for example my old iphone 4). My pictures on the Xperia T has very low quality (even shooting at 13Mpx), a lot of noise and a very poor resolution. Hasn't the pictures a lot of JPG compression???

I wonder if it's just me or anybody else has the same problem.

I tried to search on the phone some option to increase the quality, but I am unable to find it.

Is there any patch from Sony to fix this problem?. I won't believe that this camera only may offer this poor pictures.

Thx.

[alvmuoz]

I agree that the camera is worse than I expected, I hope Sony improves it in a next software update.

BTW in some pictures there are parts which are not focused even when I choose multiple point focus, do you think it's better to set single point focus?

And for the light measurement, is it better to choose center or average?

[Uliwooly]

post some of your pictures here. also which settings are you using?

[Daloch]

I made pictures with all the possible combinations.

Tried even to set all the pictures with 100iso.

I agree about the focus problems, even choosing multi point focus... the pictues are still not clear.

Firsteable I thought that the CMOS was too small for 13Mpx, but using 10Mpx is still the same.

This makes me think that, from 10Mpx, it decreases to 2Mpx... what about an 8Mpx and 5Mpx?... then you still can get good quality.

Yes, I hope they will fix it in the next update, and by the way, they also can fix the slow focus when you record a video.

[Uliwooly]

post your pictures here

[Samuel1]

How convenient, I just came back from a holiday in Spain where I used my Xperia T as point-and-shoot camera. All of them unedited and in 10mp to get 16:9 format. Compare them to your pictures and post some yourself and we will take a look!

This one is taken in the dark, using flash:

And here are two pictures taken without flash

[Uliwooly]

I will, I'll post both with the Xperia S and TL, and perhaps my Arc too

[Wustpisk]

Same with me - the quality is really shockingly poor, but then I have come from the Nokia N8 which cannot be beaten so anything else really has to be top notch in order to pass muster. Believe me, I have taken pictures in all lighting conditions and of all types of subject with this new machine, but I am very disappointed so far. I would upload a couple of examples here, but I am still trying to work out how to transfer the pictures to my laptop

[Samuel1]

Well, there are a few options. USB-cable, transfer via bluetooth, e-mail them to your webmail, use an app such as Airdroid etc

[Daloch]

  For what I see, on your pictures, you have the same problem than the rest... poor sharpness, huge amout of noise (look at the water or the clouds).

The image, when you see the whole picture on the screen, is very poor.

I insist on the fact that pictures taken with my "old" iphone 4, looks way better than the ones taken with my Xperia. Not understanding how is it possible that a picture taken with a 5Mpx camera it's bigger than one taken with a 13Mpx camera. I think that the pictures are too compressed on the Xperia. It has wonderful colours, and the camera is very fast, but when it comes to the resolution, sharpness and noise, it is really bad, nomatter how you shoot.

Knowing that it's not the same, I have a Finepix HS20. This is a 16Mpx camera. The pictures are up to 7~8Mb each. Now, with this camera, I take pictures of 2,5 or 3Mb (as I said, smaller than lots of my iphone 4 camera). It may be the compression algorism for the JPG: What I am sure is that this camera can do better pictures, but for now, I am very very dissapointed with it.

Here goes some samples.

This are a little bit "extreme" pictures. Everybody knows that in a sunny day, with no clouds, in a perfect place with no pollution, all the pictures looks MORELESS well. Even in a perfect day, the you can see the noise on the blue of the sky, or in the contrast zones.