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avallark

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.

hedrox87

Looking over at iphone7 and S7 pictures sony isn't worse at all.. Viewing in 1:1 TV full hd or monitor the details are more than fine and less blurry than S7 photos, maybe the grain is a way to add sharpness in normal view. If anyone is zooming to 100% must be stupid, if he isn't printing the image to billboard size of 8x4 meters. If does.. Well for billboards there are professional cameras not smatphones, and viewing 6450x4780 on 1920x1080 grain doesn't appear cause one pixel reproduces 6 from photo. If you can zoom to 4K on Tv good for you, I can't, and don't see the problem.

codetcs

viewing photos from the XZ I see grain etc. with 0% zoom on a normal 24" screen. No need to zoom 100% to detect all those mushy details captured by the XZ, you clearly see them by normal viewing on a photo.

Lord_viridis

Optical stability is overrated and mostly is beneficial to video.

Took all the phones out tonight to try getting a good shot of the moon.

Xperia XZ

Galaxy S6 edge.

codetcs

OIS is not overrated.. coming from the lumia 1020 I miss OIS for low light images.. every snap shot with the lumia 1020 was sharp and crisp at low light.. Xperia XZ always starts to get very intensly grainy and blurry when its getting close to 1/16 to 1s, this didnt happen under same conditions with the 1020 which is a 3 year old phone..

gouthi8

viridis, Could you tell us which settings you used for taking the Supermoon pic? I mean specifics on Shutter Speed, ISO, EV, etc. Manual / Auto mode, Mega pixel size etc.

Lord_viridis

Metering spot.(most important to avoid just a bright light)
Shutter 1/4000 or auto (metering will adjust nicely for lunar brightness)
Focus manually to infinite.

For bright objects in the sky, always emphasise on metering, if not set to spot, you've got no chance.

Lord_viridis

Full 24mp
I believe the full file is still preserved on here so if you open the images in new tab and click download the original file will download and show the exif data

codetcs

Virids, taking a photo with 1/4000 shutter speed will never require OIS.

Lord_viridis

It sure helped at maximum zoom to allow the S6 metering to take proper effect tho..
But if you have another method of keeping the moon centralised at 8x zoom to allow the metering to take affect, I'm sure the user before would like to hear..

codetcs

just make photos out of the pocket snap shots handhelt in low light with/wo OIS and see the major difference, bc this is what people usually do, they dont take photos of moons ususally.