Camera - xperia s - focusing problems and poor images

[#1]

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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[dhruvdesai]

I purchase xperia p n the camera quality is poorest among all xperia and i dont know what the heck sony doing, i really feel sad n cheated by sony when ever i shot at night with flash the image becomes yellowish it has 8mp camera with full hd video recording but everything is only on paper please help me how i can get refund or solve this yellowish problem

POOR SONY:smileyangry:

[narula_jatin_gm]

Same is the case with my phone and I am really angry with this whole thing of camera wasting time on

getting the right focus and then not getting great outputs.

I was planning to buy HTC and now I am stuck with this .

[luis_DR]

Before I had the xperia Arc, then I "upgraded" to an Xperia S in June. My experience with the Xperia Arc's Camera was and is the best one I ever had, so when I got this 12MP Exmor Sensor camera from Sony I never thought I would so disappointed as I got when saw the actual horrible performance of this rubbish phone. After a week I went to Google and typed "Sony Xperia S Camera Issues" and this popped up, then I discover that it wasnt just me facing the issues of the Xperia S camera.

So even though NO ONE FROM SONY, NO ONE ever said they were going to bring a fix to this big issues I waited for more than 2 months for an answer or a fix. So here we are 8 MONTHS after the release of this rubish phone and NO FIX YET, NOTHING, NADA!!!

The last thing I want to do is to give you all the better solution to the problems of the XPERIA S camera, it worked very well for me:       

                           SELL YOU XPERIA S RUBBISH-CAMERA-PHONE, go for something else.

Oh, and one last thing.    NEVER AGAIN SONY     

[max98]

Hi Guys. I'm not sure why other people experience this problem. Before I also have the same problem with my camera but when I fix the ICS with SUS and PCC then factory reset with settings reset my camera is working great now. Have you guys tried this. What I did was SUS first then PCC then after I reset my phone to factory then settings reset. I hope this helps you guys. Ever since it was still Sony Ericsson I loved their phones. Up until now still loveing Sony.

[gempzchak]

Does it really works .If it does then i will be very happy for my lifetime because i bought the sony xperia s especially for the camera. anyways advance thnkx

[Tilden]

I don't know if the method suggested by max98 will work.  I experience focusing problem with the stock camera app when I switch from close object to far away object or vice versa.  The camera just can't focus on half of the cases no matter which mode I use.  Then I tried Camera360 under that same condition.  It can focus quickly all the time.  So I think it is a software problem.

[gempzchak]

Even me i cannot understand why the automatic focusin is not working and you are right problem is with the software but why sony is not trying to fix this problem soon.

In the night i use a normal mode and in the whiting i use inflorescence intead of automatic

[luis_DR]

SONY won't fix the camera issues, its been 8 F...ing months already and they haven't eve RECOGNIZED THE PROBLEM. So that gives you an idea about how much do they care for us, the costumer, the reason they are here.

[infernovip]

see this:

xperia P have much better quality and this shouldn't be true but it is...

http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=2&idPhone1=4238&idPhone2=4369&idPhone3=4436

i compared this phones in few sites. I look manualy to phone rewiew and compared many photos and everyware is this same xperia s have the picture really noise like sand and xperia p doing better quality pictures:

xperia S:

http://www.telepolis.pl/artykuly.php?id=486&str=10

xperia P:

http://www.telepolis.pl/artykuly.php?id=519&str=8

i dont know why maybe xperia p have better optic or i dont know maybe is other reason of this situation.

when you click on photo then will pop up windoww with picture to see this in 100% quality you need to click: " zobacz zdjęcie w orginale " below the picture.

You can see that quality i beter and xperia P dont have this black dots problems like xperia S.

If this is not enough see this photo from phonearena:

xperia P: http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Sony-Xperia-P-Review_id3047/page/3

xperia S: http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Sony-Xperia-S-Review_id2970/page/3

open in 100% resolution by clicking right mouse on selected picture and chose open in new tab.

You can see that anyway where is picture taken and anyway who doing the test anytime is this same efect.

i downloaded some photos from xperia S and xperia P i rescaled by gimp 2.8 xperia S 12mp photos to 8mp size.

Then photos looks much better but still a little better look xperia P and still we can see xperia S noise and some black dots on the grey areas in photos.

[SONY-XPS]

Try to use scenes mode to normal then set focus mode. Hope it helps for taking images.