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Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

intellix1 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:39:44 GMT

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.

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

Uliwooly — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:51:17 GMT

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

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

intellix1 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:07:13 GMT

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)

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

Uliwooly — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:40:09 GMT

check this out

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

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

Markus1 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:11:10 GMT

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

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

luis_DR — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:38:05 GMT

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

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

sbkhbk — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:47:01 GMT

Hello Markus,

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

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

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

luis_DR — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:55:38 GMT

Nothing?

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

PVV — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:03:43 GMT

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.

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

AliWonder — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:41:11 GMT

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??

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

PVV — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:06:02 GMT

No, itsnt normal even for a camera phone (especially in flagship model) to have such terrible quality of pictures. Even five year old phones with 5mpx cameras like Nokia N95 and N82 have a MUCH better quality and I will not even start comparing to the new PureView models. The Xperia S camera is truly a disaster, I have to buy a separate digital cam first time since 2007 to make some adequate pictures (and no its not a Sony digital cam, I am not buying a single Sony device again, if Sony would not solve the Xperia S problem).

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

infernovip — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:57:36 GMT

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

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

Dpk1 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:07:53 GMT

I wouldn't bet anything on what gsmarena tests show/ prove :smileywink:! They use old/ outdated techniques having flaws, and imo are most unreliable to quote anything. For instance, just see the audio quality test of xperia s and that of smasung wave s8500 (i have both). Acc to them wave beats the XS hands down, but in reality XS audio quality is way superior (i've myself tested both). Moreover, the photocompare tool shows XS photo samples when it was on GB, with ICS the camera quality has improved! Also, don't forget that any samples you compare at gsmarena aren't & wouldn't be taken at the same time (maybe different lighting conditions too). And both the phones in question essentialy have the same BSI sensor/ camera hardware (except 12 mp vs 8mp).

Btw, i've no issues with my XS camera quality as such (except for the buggy quicklaunch on ICS). Though photos do tend to be bit too noisy at night using auto, but this can be rectified using night mode (works well for me) :smileycool:.

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

infernovip — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:29:09 GMT

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.

Re: Photo Quality of Xperia S (and image compression)

facesad — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 03:47:00 GMT

in order to get the best quality images, you can download an image application to add noise reduce blurry and sharpen images. so your pictures will turn out more beautifull and set compressing ratio as you want.