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Firstly this phone is fantastic and I have already conmverted several friends from apple to sony.

Last night I though I would really test it out - went out with a few mates, each with different phones and every time the Nokia N8 took better pictures.

Honestly - my xperia took ages to focus and 5 out of 9 shots were very very poor. In direct comparision the N8 - once he had it set up, took photos faster and each one was in focus - non of this waiting while it figures out what its doing,.

In day light - mine wins no problem - in pubs and low light areas I found this phone to have major problems with focus, and tiime delay in pressing and actual capture of images --- dont get me wrong - I can take it out of my pocket - press the button and hey presto - a photo very very quick --but what is the point when its not in focus and then I have to try again, then again, by which time, my mates are laughing as they have unlocked their phone, aimed and took a good photo.

SONY -- please look into this -- is this my handset or systemic?

Looking at the response this is systemic - if this is a software issue then please sort it, if hardware - recall and replace.

For those of you with the problem - the best photos I can get are to disable face detection, scenes to OFF,,focus mode - have it on touch or infinity, metering centre. At least on these settings I get more than 1 out of 10 photos which I can use.

THIS IS STILL AN ISSUE!!! SONY PLEASE RESPOND!

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Uliwooly

and there are a lot more that don't post here or the forum because they don't have issues. if you, as user, don't have any issues, you won't care to stop at the forum or look for the forum or post saying hey my phone work just fine, it might not worked for that other user but that's him not you, you should replace it

SGR78

Surely there are more with problems but their posts got deleted as my own and the person I replied to (nice one luis)

This is THE most open and Democratic forum ever!

whatever works as an advertise passes whereas whatever is criticism and/or cite to an Imperfection or fault it gets censored!

Great policy!

Keep It up!

Uliwooly

I agree there's bias and/or double standard on this forum, check this out

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/44888

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I have not had any problems with my camera, the only minor problem i have with it is a it slightly over saturates colours some times making the pictures slightly to vivid.

tom-phils

Updated my XS with ICS, The other week I took pictures and I was shocked because the images was so poor it looked like it came from those 3.2 megapixel cameras way back. It seems that the phone can't deceide what to focus, Tried several tricks like turning the image stabilizer and auto scenes off. Single focus on and other stuff. I begining to get frustrated actually. Before I was using xperia neo and I didn't experience any of these problems. What made me buy XS are the camera, screen, processor and connectivity aspect. First the batery now the camera.. oh! sony please don't make me regret buying this phone.

Uliwooly

which settings were you using, were you touching the screen or shutter (half press to focus like a regular camera), smile recognition?

tom-phils

portrait, face detection focus, image stabilizer off saturation zero, ISO auto and used the touch capture. From my observation if the subject is about 2 to 3 meters away the focus becomes bad it seemed that the camera or the sensor or the focus can't decide were and when to stop focusing up until the camera catches a scene. It seemed like the components of the camera and the system are not working as one. Before I thought maybe I just need to clean the camera glass. Tried to go to apps and clear the camera settings but still no good. Strange when I was using xperia neo I never experienced any of these issues. Need help

luis_DR

The problem is not what settings we are using, there is something wrong with the camera.

If there is an option called AutoScene, it is supposed to work wich it doesn't (not how it should). Same goes for touch capture, why Ulli keeps telling people to use the physical camera key only, that doesn't help that much. There is something wrong with the camera, not with the users.

luis_DR

This was the last thing said about this problem, way back (March 15), nothing since.

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Markus wrote:

Sorry to hear this. There's still an ongoing investigation on this focus issue. I cannot tell right now what could be the cause of it or how to fix it.

I suggest you contact the regional Sony Mobile support office and have a word with them on the possibilities of getting a new phone. This will very much depend on local consumer laws and I do not have full information on this matter.

http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/support/contact-us/

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Why there is still no answer to this isuue?, we already are on ICS and the problem is still there.

SUPPORT!!!!!