Z2 camera- Higher resolution, a lot less features

[vandal1976]

Hello everyone,

Having purchased my Z2 and looking forward to use the camera I must say I'm dissapointed. 

Sony advertises this phone as having a 20MP camera (which it does), but fails to state that to use the maximum resolution means that we will lose on the superior auto mode, HDR, scenes, etc. The default mode, and the only one that you can use with pretty much all features, is a mere 8MP!!

The camera is seriously lacking on higher resolutions, and my question is: Is this something that can be resolved with a firmware update? And will it get resolved?

GSM arena talk about this here:

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z2-review-1078p8.php

 Thanks

[vandal1976]

Anyone?

[azzido]

Everyone is experiencing it, but I do not have answer tto why it is like this. Maybe it is hardware limitation?
I am sorry, but I simply do not know. 

[ghani667]

its not the hardware limitation 8mp is fine it does over sample the images from the 20.7 hardware and yes we should have an option like old xperia tx software that we can set at maximum resolution in superior auto .........another thing is the software lacks alot of things specially in low light pictures its really poor it does alot of post processing and compression so the images come noisy if sony fixes this itll be the best camera in android 

[vandal1976]

Yes, I have read in other forums that people are not happy with this, and some have complained to the ASA as they think it's misleading advertising.
There are many issues with this phone, and overall I really regret moving from an iPhone to an android phone...

[MrNutt]

Mine takes some superb images, well about six, then it has to turn itself off.

[paulell45]

I've found the pcitures to be significantly inferior to the Z1. They look like lower resolution images and I was pretty amazed to find that on Superior Auto mode you only get an 8mp image. This seems to undermine much of the marketting hype. When using manual mode I've found that after five or six pictures the camera app closes down with a warning about overheating. The top of the phone does seem to get very hot very quickly. Maybe the is the reason Sony are restricting the auto mode. It may point to a hardware rather than software issue. It may also result in me returning the phone...

[azzido]

I am on newest .402 soft, I can take a lot of picture, for sure more than 5 or 6, the phone is warm but not overheats, no closes itself. 

[paulell45]

I'm on the latest version as well so it sounds as though I may have a faulty phone in addition to the software limitations!

[Edit] Update: Looking elsewhere on the forum overheating seems to be a general problem especially when using the camera. Looks like this is going back.

[gfinlayson]

Why would you need a 20MP image from a phone? Are you planning on printing wall posters from the images? The idea is that the sensor captures a raw image at 20MP and then uses downsampling to reduce noise and improve the final image quality. You're not going to get a great looking 20MP image from the tiny pixels in a sensor as small as the one in a smart phone.