The camera is so disappointing

[#1]

Why is the camera on the X10 being advertised as so good? It's clumsy, slow and awkward to use. No flash and pictures can be very difficult to take with blurring happening more times than not. One of the main reasons I choose the X10 over other devices was the promise of a brilliant camera.

Sony Ericsson, can you give us any information on future updates to the camera, eg wil we ever get the flash that you promised in a 'future update' and will you ever increase the screen colours? HD video recording is a great start (I'm yet to try it out as the update isn't available to me yet), but please bring the camera up to the quality I've experienced with previous SE devices

[#2]

I agree... the camera is VERY dissapointing. I was waiting to judge it after the update came, and infortunately my opinion has not changed.  The picture becomes so blurry when you try to zoom in on something, auto focus doesnt really do much.  Even after taking a picture, when you zoom in on the picture, most phones now have the feature where it automatically clears up the pixels for you, but suprisingly the xperia doesnt. Very dissapointing. I have seen other phones, like apple, and htc model. amazing picture quality when zoomed in!

[#3]

wth is that clicking sound coming from the camera after 2.1 update when changing camera settings and stuff????

[#4]

You (and the moderators) will pardon me, but you seem to be talking with the lower part of your back here!

Judging camera capabilities mostly (or only) in extreme digital zoom is really a clever thing to do - you sure understand photography.

Can you point us to those "other phones" (which are they exactly?) that - "after you take the picture, when you zoom in on it" - they "automatically clear up the pixels for you"??? Which pixels? All of them? Or only some - the red ones, or the blue ones? Can you explain a little?

I would also like to hear which exactly models of Apple and HTC have better cameras - and to see some samples (URL links,please!) of images from those other phones that have "amazing quality when zoomed in". When I was defending the X10 I posted examples - see them above - from my own phone. (Click to zoom in and see those pixels; you obviously find them cr#p quality). GIve us examples to illustrate your claims!

If you were comparing other people's photos with the photos you took, this is not the same as the photos the X10 camera can take, in someone else's hands. Cameras don't take pictures, photographers do.

[#5]

I can hear no sound when changing settings - any settings. Am I missing a feature orsomething? Does everyone else hear clicks on changing settings?

[#6]

mae5tr0 wrote:
I can hear no sound when changing settings - any settings. Am I missing a feature orsomething? Does everyone else hear clicks on changing settings?

It's not a very strong sound, more like lens shifting sound, but there is nothing to shift there!!!!

[#7]

You just prove that you know nothing about Photography or camera technology. Please stop embarassing yourself.

[#8]

First of all, taking pics from phone cameras doesnt make you a photographer, you are very ignorant. here is an experiment if you really want to do it.

Take an A4 lined paper with handwritten (not typed or anything) info on it, the whole paper should be filled. Take an iphone 4 and the xperia x10, take a picture (NOT A VIDEO) of the document where all the words are visible.  Zoom in from each phone, and see the difference.

Then reply, otherwise don't, waste of time.

[#9]

Here is an experiment if you really want to do it.

Take an A4 lined paper with handwritten (not typed or anything) info on it, the whole paper should be filled. Take an iphone 4 and the xperia x10, take a picture (NOT A VIDEO) of the document where all the words are visible.  Zoom in from each phone, and see the difference.

Then reply, otherwise don't, waste of time.

[#10]

Btw im not talking about extreme pics LOL! im not a photographer obviously, im a student, and the extent of my photography is taking pics of notes LOL! and in our lives, that is quite important, i dont  think you neeed to be a photographer to take GREAT pics of documents, which is why i told you to do this experiment.

[#11]

It seems the one who is ignorant is you. What you have been saying is the technical aspect of an image, it is a one of the numerous factors in photography. You know so little about image quality and the quality of image that you are proving yourself to be quite a laugh.

Do you even know the diffference between a digital zoom and an optical zoom? Iphone 4's camera is but a mediocre component of a wannabe smartphone.

What kind of qualifications have you got to prove you're a better photographer or more knowledgeable than maestro? I'm amazed you are  still arguing your fatally flawed point.

You are such a waste of breath.