Xperia Arc Camera Image Quality

[#1]

Hi folks,

It may come as a shock, but I have to say that I'm genuinely dissappointed with the native image quality from my new 8mp Xperia Arc

I've had plenty of camera phones, but I have never witnessed such over-sharpening and over-compression in my jpegs !

I recently took 50-60 images in bright sunny conditions with intermittent cloud (availing of low ISO) and even at it's ISO 80 setting, the jpegs are being compressed and over-sharpened within an inch of their life.

• How can the average file size from an 8mp sensor (3264x2448 pixels) be a miserably small 1.4mb ? I've had 6mp sensors producing, at a minimum, 1.9mb sized files.
• If you can select 2mb, 6mb and 8mb resolution sizes, why can't Xperia Arc users select a desired quality / compression level ? I'm thinking low, medium, fine, super-fine.
• Similarly why can't Xperia Arc users select the sharpness level : low, medium, high ?

Surely budding Xperia Arc photographers would much rather have a) image quality and b) sharpness settings over the current nice-to-have options like Metering (which is not neccessary if you simply use your Exposure Value option) ?

I'm aware that various photo editing android apps exist (and I have run a number of them through their paces), but by all accounts they're simply piggy backing the native output jpegs.

Am I missing something here - are image quality & sharpness options too much to ask from a flagship 8mp snapper ??

Regards,
Paul

[slimshaddy]

u can see..no reply

[#3]

Hello ,

Thank's for your reply .

I got this version "Camera ZOOM FX v2.6.2"

Is it the one you are using ?

[#4]

Let me make my Q more plain , which version of this app should I get?

[slimshaddy]

i opened the android market and checked..

the latest version is 3.1.2

so u shud google the same

camera zoom fx 3.1.2

and see if u can find the apk..

[slimshaddy]

Here's the official app from Android Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=slide.cameraZoom&feature=more_from_developer

The previous link was to a pirated version of the app. Not allowed here. /Markus-SEAnswers

here u go

download link is below the barcode..

Message was edited by: Markus-SEAnswers

[#7]

Thank you so much  

[#8]

Hi!

Can someone post some comparison shots using default camera app and some other app that lets you select quality, compression etc? is there any app that lets you capture in lossless (PNG for example)?

[#9]

As I mentioned in my post above, Camera Zoom FX allows you to select the image resolution size which indirectly means the compression level can be controlled.

[uliwooly-wooly]

its a great app but its too slow

[#11]

The latest version is 3.1.3.