Xperia Z1 camera - blurry pictures with noise and washed colours

[Harime]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a little concerned about the performance of the Xperia Z1 camera.

I had read already in some reviews that the pictures are not too sharp and the colours are washed, but now i have experienced it myself.

This camera should be way better than the camera in the iPhone 5, but i'm getting sharper images and more realistic colours with the iPhone. There is a lot of noise in the Z1 pictures, the Superior Auto mode is not getting things right, neither in focus, picture sharpness or colors.

I was expecting this camera to be very sharp and accurate, but i found out it's not near that. As per all the effort Sony has put in advertising the Z1 camera, i think we should get a software update and improve the camera a lot.

Do you think this is a software problem? Every Xperia Z1 review i've read points that out.

[Nshopov]

So last night I updated my Z1 - officially I'm on 4.4.2 KitKat - NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER! I know this will dissapoint the community here, sorry guys. That was my last hope!

[MJAM]

After upgrading to 14.3.A.0.681 i tried the back camera .. when i press the shutter button or touch the screen for foucs or taking picture, the cam stuck only the flash goes on and persist and there is no going back. i tried to downgrade the firmware but the issue is still on ..
so, simply my issue is: -
1 - back camera cant let u take photos by button or toching
2 - when u try to, the flash goes on and keep working
3 - back button at this time is not working unless u press the home button to close the app

4 - no foucs

so please any ideas ...

Thank u...

[Nshopov]

Deffinetely something's wrong with your phone, it's not the update. Did you wet the phone? Do a HARD RESET. If that doesn't help, I'm affraid it's hardware. You should probably take it to a doctor. If you have your warranty there's nothing to worry about.

[santana1]

Makes no sense complaining here anymore,ppl have been complaining since the days of the X10,mini pro and those older devices and Sony hasn't changed there software yet and the horrible compression that occurs.I got tired of complaining so if you are rooted head over to xda on the Z1 development thread and port either the Asop cam or the LG G2 cam and trust me the rusults are way better ,that's how I know Sony is messing up there software and not listening to us customers.I think they should take a page from samsung and merge there mobile and compact camera divisions as to improve there camera software,manual mode will give you the best results but for auto I use the G2's cam and it's not far from the manual shots either.

[drkavint]

please help me to change my cam software  to g2..kindly provide me the link to xda... iam intrested to use custom firmare.. thank you.. my email id is removed by alexdon - no private info on the forum

[Radicchibelotto]

There is something wrong. Pictures are so noise. I am so disappointed

[ghani667]

its the software which causes bad images super noisy and grainy sony ruined the software since the launch of xperia z before that xperia tx had really good software i still dont understand why sony is making expensive hardware but ruining the best hardware with horrible software 

[ghani667]

This is xperia z1 before taking the pic and after really poor software optimization from sony cannot set proper iso and exposure automatically in superior auto plus it has horrible post processing result bad low light pictures

[ghani667]

Took this in full lit room with superior auto or should i call poop auto no details so much grain and noise 20.7 mp and glens and bionz for mobile is a joke because of so horrible software

[stinjenel]

Does anyone had the lens fogging inside when using the camera to record videos?! That causes blurry-foggy-grainy pictures.