topic Re: Panoramic photos in XPERIA archive

Panoramic photos

Spency100 — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:02:39 GMT

Hello, I just tried to take a panoramic photo using the correct app and it was either too slow or too fast. After 10 attempts I gave up...... I miss the ease of doing this on an iPhone - it just worked first time every time. Why is this such a problem with the Sony when the key selling point is the camera?

Re: Panoramic photos

Uliwooly — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:36:34 GMT

It should work just ok, is there a lot of contrast light (areas with a lot of light v really dark places)? are you trying to take a panoramic picture on a low light environment?

Re: Panoramic photos

Spency100 — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:21:24 GMT

Hi, I was in an office so fully fluorescent lighting and then tried at home with all lights on - failed in both environments

Re: Panoramic photos

Uliwooly — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:48:09 GMT

Could you try a different camera app from the play store, any panoramic camera app will do

Re: Panoramic photos

Shaynecks — Sat, 02 May 2015 11:53:34 GMT

A little late into the discussion, but I think I found the issue with the camera. To get an image, one has to pan all the way to the end of the image preview bar. Can't just stop halfway where we desired.
I think this is a major problem worth Sony's team to fix as most (if not ALL users) won't be needing such a long panoramic shot most of the time.

Re: Panoramic photos

Uliwooly — Sat, 02 May 2015 16:43:39 GMT

@Shaynecks

That's exactly what I've been saying since the Xperia Arc, that we, users, should be able to make panoramic pictures without the 270degrees restriction

@Rickard

Re: Panoramic photos

Rickard — Mon, 04 May 2015 13:16:32 GMT

I believe this is something that has been passed on as feedback internally but i will do it again.

Currently i can only recommend that you try another camera app.

Re: Panoramic photos

bengrulz — Mon, 04 May 2015 20:06:43 GMT

The panorama output from the Sony camera app is very very poor in resolution and clarity compared to others (Google Camera seems to be the best). Granted, the Sony app is able to generate a panorama just from panning (where the google app you must line up each picture), but this is part of why it's so limited in resolution as I believe it creates the panorama from the live video preview which is limited to 1080p. This could potentially be remedied if Sony implemented Full camera2 APIs as that allows for full resolution camera feed to the software.