Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

[intellix1]

The wonderful camera which the phone is equipped with does not seem to be of any use as long as we have this super jpeg compression in place. The final images generally turn out to be noisy (specially in less than perfect light e.g. during dusk) although they look perfectly fine in the phone's gorgeous display.

The phone has an internal memory of 32 GB. I guess it wouldnt harm anyone to have the image size increassed a little bit OR have an option to select the amount of image compression that an individual wants, to ensure people who want small images get smaller sized images.....while those who opt for details, can get larger detailed images which can be edited later.

Its an absolute shame that the image quality right now makes it even worse than iphone 4s sometimes....................which is bad specially considering the wonderful hardware that we have in out phone.

Sony DEVs......are you guys working on something?? OR can we expect something with the ICS update??

There has been some discussion regarding the image quality in the general section of the XDA as well. So decided to open up this thread to bring this up with Sony.

[Uliwooly]

you can read it here, that they are aware but they haven't said anything about fixing the issue

https://plus.google.com/117586446271921149656/posts/jgJgbxSyLEX

Sony Xperia  -  +Alexandre Bote Tronchoni Thanks for the comment and the compression of images is something we are in discussion in our development teams but today do not have a more firm answer. - Nik

[intellix1]

Yes I had seen that in the google plus forum as well.

Just wanted to bring this topic to the main forum to ensure that we can tell sony how serious the matter is.

It is absolutely of no use to have a good camera if images dont turn out to be good enough.

We dont lack the hardware capability. so in terms of software the system should just be made a little bit more flexible. (which clearly isnt the case)

[Uliwooly]

check this out

http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/130237

[Markus1]

We are indeed aware of this but as already mentioned, there's no firm answer on what will be.

I suggest you keep the discussion in any these threads:

http://talk.sonyericsson.com/message/107046

http://talk.sonyericsson.com/message/89058

http://talk.sonyericsson.com/message/89887

[luis_DR]

Is SONY going to fix all these camera issues (blurry, noisy pictures and focusing problems)?????

[sbkhbk]

Hello Markus,

I didn't get your answer right....

You mean to say that there will not be any fix provided by Sony or ..... ??

[luis_DR]

Nothing?

[PVV]

Well, after last update (.45) the focusing seems a lot better. But the pictures are still blury with terrible color noise (in low light Xperia S has the worsest quality I ve seen in years). I am thinking about returning the phone to the store with the subject of faulty camera.

[AliWonder]

I'm posting here as the links from Markus above don't seem to relate to the Xperia S. I just updated to 4.0.4 (is this ICS? Not sure); & the image quality seems if anything worse; lots of artifacts, blurring etc. (I thought this was normal for a camera phone however as I'm used to using a professional SLR, so there is no comparison. However reading these posts I see that it should be better).

The other issue is that the software now compresses even the images I import from my computer, so they are tiny on the camera screen - about a half to 2/3 of the screen size. I have obviously re-sized these images to 72dpi, to save space on the memory, but they are still high-quality, and they used to fill the screen in the previous software. The images taken with the camera on the phone are displayed at full size - i.e. filling the screen - even though they are much smaller / lower quality than those I've copied across from my computer. There's no point in having such a big screen if you can't even view photos & videos to the full size of the screen! It's a bad software fault. Does anyone know if Sony is going to fix this??