topic Camera extremely grainy in XZ Series

Camera extremely grainy

avallark — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:28:01 GMT

Camera is extremely grainy. The photo is set to 23mp 4:3 . Even at 23 mp the photos look as if they are 5mp. Picture quality is quite bad.

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Samooorje — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:59:33 GMT

I agree with you,,,

Sony if you not fix these issues for that monster phone you will never be the top of smartphones....

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azzido — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 21:46:05 GMT

Try using 8MPx instead, you will get less noise and better pictures then.

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Banjara — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:00:08 GMT

Facing the same problem, images are not clear, infact I am shocked, camera was its main selling point

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avallark — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:57:49 GMT

Any comments from a Sony staff would be greatly appreciated

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dandy63 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 08:34:52 GMT

Although this was written a little while ago it will still be of some use perhaps :smileysmileythumbsup:

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/FAQ/Xperia-Smartphone-Photography-Improve-your-smartphone/td-p/1124298/jump-to/first-unread-message

Re: Camera extremely grainy

avallark — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:56:50 GMT

This does not help

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magicalsalad — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:28:20 GMT

Terrible camera, indeed. Perhaps a software issue. Please address this, Sony.

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Sunking1011 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:11:03 GMT

Grain, poor macro and overall performance unworthy of a 23MP camera-centric flagship.

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avallark — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:05:40 GMT

Can I get an official response from the Sony staff ? I am going to go public with this otherwise

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adamlee2014 — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:18:46 GMT

I agree the camera is shocking!!! Blurry and way too much noise, my z5 takes much better photos. Photos on the XZ zoomed in are horrid

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gouthi8 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 08:25:49 GMT

I agree with the people here. It is extremely grainy. I thought my clicks are bad but.. Now I realise that other people are facing the same problem. Is this something that could be fixed by some software update (hopefully on Nougat update?). However, the Sony X performance has got amazing score on DXOMark site. Check the ratings here:

https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles

Re: Camera extremely grainy

Raacatin — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:14:55 GMT

Same issue here. It does not matter if the amount of light is hogh or low, the pictures are super grainy. I bougth this phone mainly for the camera, so I hope it will be solved in next software updates...

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codetcs — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:20:09 GMT

here too! Main selling point was the camera, image quality has to be improved with a software update including 5-axis image stabilization for photos not only for videos!

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mariagi27 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:47:15 GMT

Need to fix zoom camera,they are slow,and grainy...

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Cattnip — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:56:42 GMT

Same problem, photos look like from my old SonyEricsson k790. I hope Sony will fix it before Nougat realese.

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LesPaulPlayer — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:11:41 GMT

Wow, I'm surprised at the problems with grain everybody is having. I have an F8331 and am really happy with the camera in good light. It is more grainy in low light, but this is true with digital cameras in general, some more than others.

Are you all viewing these photos at 100% and making your judgement? You're free to do so, but I make the judgement by looking at the entire photo. And when doing that, my XZ's photos look better than the S7's that I used to have...even though the S7 seems to be every Android user's favorite camera. The XZ photos are loaded with detail.

Outdoor sample

Re: Camera extremely grainy

Cattnip — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:09:20 GMT

Grainy without zoom. Grainy at the day light. I think it's a dual Phones problem.

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Musician — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:56:45 GMT

My shots look grainy and patchy when i blow it up to actual size at 23MP. Saw some comments on oversharpening on the software side. Waiting for software patch to address this and a couple other issues with the phone.

Re: Camera extremely grainy

skycamefalling — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:20:33 GMT

I'm very disappointed by the camera and I think I'm going to return the phone because of this.

Again, Sony managed to get much less out of their sensors than the competion does.

Each photo is quite good and sharp in the center and then quickly blurs from there to the edges.

The end result is an underwhelming, blurry photo with low dynamic range.

Basically, it's the same bad result as we could see on the Z3 and Z5.

I've made a photo comparison to the S7 in another forum, not sure if linking is allowed:

http://www.pocketpc.ch/sony-xperia-xz/231926-sony-xperia-xz-kamera-diskussionsthread.html#post2275411