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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[AngelRamos]

Then I have to have locked bootloader? Actually, I´ve unlocked the bootloader with ICS 6.1.A.2.50 but I don´t like the quality of images.....So, answer me Prometeo Please?

[Prometeo24]

Hi @AngelRamos, how r u? Excuse me but, are you Argentinian?? Because me too! jaja

Related to your question, I do not know much about all this, I'm quite new here. But, as far as I've read, many people have had many troubles after unlocking the bootloader.

All I've done so far it's doing what I mentioned before, I really do no t know if you must lock your phone back in order to do it.

What is more, I do not have the .50 Version, I'm stuck in .45. I just can't get it jaja. PCC says: "Your phone is up to date"

[Tilden]

AngelRamos, If you want to update using SUS nor PCC, as far as  know, you need to lock your bootloader.  Alternatively, you may try to simply reset he camera data and see if you get better result with your camera.

I've tried it with lower light condition with camera data reset.  It focuses faster and more accurate than before.  It does fail to focus occassionally but I think is now acceptable.  With respect to the photo quality, due to the extremely smaller censor the phone has, images are grainy but it is not worse than other similar phones I have (e.g. Samsuny Galaxy S2).

[BLEXO]

Buenas noches

Mi pregunta es que solo con estos dos pasos bastara para repararse:`

1. realizar copia de seguridad con PCC.

2. Repararar por PCC

O es necesario tambien realizar lo mismo con SUS???.

Te cuento que  llame al servivio de soprte de Sony y me queje de la pesima camara de mi xperia s, ya que la mayoria de fotos salen desenfocadas y en lugares de poca luz las toma con muy mala calidad. Segun el servicio tecnico esto no es normal, y me sugirieron en primera estancia "reparar" desde el PCC.

En este momento realizare la reparacion, luego les cuento como me fue.

Saludos desde Colombia,

Alex Ramos

XPERIA S lt26i ultima version

[Uliwooly]

@blexo this is an English ONLY forum

BLEXO wrote:
good night
My question is that only with these two steps enough to repair `
1. Backup with PCC.
2. Repararar by PCC
Or must also do the same with their???.
I tell you servivio of soprte call Sony and complained of the bad chamber my xperia s, since most of pictures are out of focus and in low light the shot with very poor quality. According to the technical service this is not normal, and I suggested in first stay "repair" from the PCC.
Currently carried out, repair, then I tell them how I was.
Greetings from Colombia,
Alex Ramos
XPERIA S lt26i latest version

[Prometeo24]

I claim that AntCW become an admin of this thread!

What HE said works!! HE gave me the answer to my problem, now my camera works Excellent! The autoscn feature works just great, taking pictures to documents, people, images, NOW it's "auto".

Taking pictures by holdin down the camera button while the phone is locked, also works fantastic, and QUICK!

I'm really surprised about how FAST the camera is

THANKS @ANTCW!

[mongz1925]

gud day tilden! i did what you've said and it works. the camera focus fast and fixed the blur issue. BUT after 12 hours i try to use again the camera and i was shocked that it resulted to blur problem. Can you help me to fix this one??

[Uliwooly]

lol, that suggestion was given long ago but some users said that it didn't worked for them, I'm glad your phone it's working fine

[Tilden]

I've no idea.  It still worked fine for me.  You may try the method suggested by AntCW instead.

[mongz1925]

tnx tilden!