I'm not one to complain but I feel I need too - Camera

[GeoffH]

was out tonite with a few friends at a party and everybody was snapping photos and taking videos

I was aware  of the colour saturation "issue" when taking photo's in pubs etc where coloured lights are being used  (red in particular)  I posted about this before.

The people I'm with are shooting away with varoius devices - samsung notes - HTC's - SS S111 etc, well I could not let any of them see any pictures or video that my EZ had taken -this is nothing to do with compression etc which we all know about

So I sat for about 45mins experimenting with different settings, ISO white balance HDR - absolutly nothing made any difference - the camera on this phone really needs attention, I'm not quite sure why it's so sensitive to coloured light especially at night but it is, so much so that out of 30 odd pictures I took  - I only kept one of them as a sample to post here, you'll notice that objects that are close are not saturated  because they are influenced by the flash but everything else in this shot are just saturated in a very unatural red - yes there is red background lighting at the location but not nearly as strong as this picture would have you believe - and this shot is one of the better ones

If Sony doesn't fix this very poor camera deployment then some cleaver dev on XDA will port the camera driver from a Samsung 4 and I'll be first in line to install it, here is a sample picture showing the way over colour saturated night  shot garbage that this flagship phone cannot take

[Rickard · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the feedback and example!

We have received some feedback regarding this and other things in the camera and this has been escalated.

[ita]

Sony, what about an Excuse about this Problem with all your SONY Fans
You can post something about this Problem on the Sonyblog Website so your Sony Fans will see that Sony knows about this Problem and is trying to optimize the Camera

[KiranPasupuleti]

It would be really great it the problem can be rectified. This is the only feature that seems to be the biggest flaw in the Z. I find my Xperia Z to be perfect in every other aspect.

I think this particular problem seems to be hurting the brand image of Z more than anything. Also, customers of expensive phones love it when the company responds to their requests with the right action.

[sauravxperia]

sony is using over compression in thier photos, which is leadiing to greater noise. samsung also uses same sensor of sony and make phtotos of approx. 5 mb , where as sony make approx 2.8 mb. please sony we don't want small size, we want quality photos. http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/04/18/camera-shootout-xperia-z-goes-up-against-the-galaxy-s4-and-htc-...

[Hokkeltokkel]

The Camera so far might be fine BUT the Software is awkward. The compression is freaking me out. I'll be able to get 7MB Pictures with 3rd Party Camera Apps like Camera360 with a slight better quality but with that Standard Camera App pics are way too high compressed. For a 600€+ Smartphone we all deserve better then this.

Take the comparisement at XperiaBlog the XperiaZ is the worst of all Cameras. Especially if you know that the S4 uses the same Sensor but the Pictures look so much better.

Please Sony do something and against your previous behaviour to the Camera on ALL your Smartphones give us a Firmware Update for the Camera. That's the least what you could do.

[Lucas17]

Please Sony, do an update of the camera. The camera of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 makes much better pictures. Sony is a great brand and I'm very satisfied with the Xperia Z, but the camera I'm so disappointed of you! I thought Sony is better than Samsung, especially in Camera, because of the Cybershot-products. Please,please, please Sony update the camera and the Xperia Z is the perfect smartphone!

(Sorry for my bad english, it isn't my mother tongue)

[propov]

Galaxy S2,S3.Note,Note2....all they use SONY camera hardware.All they take good pictures in low light conditions.Xperia Arc was awesome,Xperia S was tragedy,Xperia V is awesome,Xepria Z is tragedy...Whats that?Do you make good or bad cameras.What must we expected?

[Lucas17]

Sony, what about an answer?

[GeoffH]

it is also too sensitive to red in low light shots