topic Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing in M Series

Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

jonsels — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:26:00 GMT

Hi, I've had my xperia m5 for a week now. When using my rear 21 mp camera at short range my photo's looks great but at long range, about 1 metre away and further is is completly blurred. No matter what focus setting I use in normal mode or in auto superior it doesn't change at all. I have the latest android 5.1 firmware installed and there are now smudges or scratches on the lens. Is there a setting I missed or is the device faulty?

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

MarlonUk1 — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:28:35 GMT

Xperia Tutorial Photography

try to take photos while in safe mode,,, if you still experience this problem

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

jonsels — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:25:06 GMT

Hi thanks. I just tried booting in safe mode. Camera is still the same.

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

Uliwooly — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:33:08 GMT

@jonsels

Could you post some picture samples and which camera settings you are using?

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

jonsels — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:44:31 GMT

How do I post photos? When in manual mode I use single auto focus mode and with scene selection turned off. When I have landscape scene selected my photos are perfect but when recording video I dont have the scene selection option. In auto superior mode it should also detect landscape scene but it doesn't.

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

Uliwooly — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:52:21 GMT

@jonsels

If you scroll to the botton > FULL > then you will be able to upload the pictures.

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

jonsels — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:02:18 GMT

Thanx added a sample to my previous post. Was taken in auto superior mode

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

Uliwooly — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:22:24 GMT

@jonsels

We have to wait for the picture to be approved by a moderator.

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

icstm — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 09:25:47 GMT

I get slightly better results than that (ie the items to the right would be in focus) but I can never get the house at the back to be in sharp focus.

The result you post is kinda what I get from the front camera, no matter where I focus.

Sony have not resolved this even when I gave it to them.

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

jonsels — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 10:23:29 GMT

Well my phones still under warranty so I'm gonna send it in to get fixed or replaced.

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

jonsels — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 07:20:08 GMT

I got the phone replaced and the new one works perfectly. Photos look great.

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

Fitria — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:13:06 GMT

Hallo jonsels..i have the same problem with u. My back camera doesnt work good.its always blurr.. Im curious what happens with ur camera now??what sony said??

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

jonsels — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 08:20:57 GMT

Hi Fitria, they didn't give any explaination, I thinks the device was just faulty they replaced my phone with a new one as it was under warranty. New one takes beautiful crisp fotos.

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

Upset01 — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:36:43 GMT

My and my wife's phone does the same - have you found a solution?

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

Tom812 — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:32:21 GMT

Hello, yesterday I bought this phone and I'm very disappointed with the rear camera focusing.

I found out that this focusing problem might be caused by the pre-installed camera app. with 3rd party camera app, I was at least able to focus on the object with tap of finger, even the image quality was worse than with the old Samsung Galaxy S5 mini, at least it focused. with the builtin camera app in "Auto" mode I wasn't able to focus on the object at all!!! Jesus, don't tell me this is feature and not the bug. Is there some known issue with your phone cameras? it's ridiculous I buy the phone and afterwards I find many issues with Xperia focusing on the internet. Just don't tell me that if you want to focus you have to switch to manual mode as you proposed in your comment.

Re: Sony Xperia M5 rear camera not focusing

Gilnobi — Sun, 14 May 2017 19:49:43 GMT

I've got the Same Problem, since I bouthgt it, I've waited till I did the update but the Problem dont resolbt it. I dont have bekommen any answer from Sony yet

The xperia M5 camera does not focus

Sony237 — Wed, 24 May 2017 21:54:44 GMT

Good evening, I wanted to ask a problem I found in the camera and in the pictures.
I bought the xperia M5 this winter, just since I realized immediately that the photos and videos are blurred, even if I try to focus. Also many times it happens that the photos I have taken are black / gray and therefore not visible. All this is a shame because I like to make photos and I am very affectionate to this phone; So I would like to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance

Re: The xperia M5 camera does not focus

Yu_Hu — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:10:30 GMT

It seems to be the default camera app as someone suggested here before.
I downloaded another camera app and it focus correctly.

It is disappointing to pay for a mobile with 4K video recording and to have this lousy behaviour.

Re: The xperia M5 camera does not focus

Sony237 — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 08:48:01 GMT

@Yu_hu

Thank'you for the answer.

What Kind of camera did you install??

Yeah, I'm agree with you

Assistenza riparazione xperia M5

Nicola98 — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:44:24 GMT

One day my M5 became very Hot in the rear,both the battery and the processor. I open the sim slot to make it cool and left it for a few hours to dry.Then check if it works and it's ok

Except the focus that in the video mode does not even tap on the screen

the focus in the video mode does not even tap on the screen. The Phone was buy 14/6/2016. The warranty is valid for this damage?