Sony Xperia 1 III - Super-Specced Photo Phone (But Why Those Lenses?!) By Kai W

This video is sponsored by Squarespace the place to go to if you want to set up your own slick. Looking website, Sony's really grabbed the photo market by the follies by giving photographers the features that they want, and also by releasing new cameras. Every two seconds now they've also been releasing new experience every two seconds, but does this the new Xperia one mark iii give photographers what they want? Let's find out? Yes, indeed I've been testing out the Sony, Xperia 3 for a few days now, just to see what this photo geek thinks of this phone. They released the Xperia one about oh 10 minutes ago that showed off the cool Venice look enabled app and about five minutes later they released Xperia one two, which was pretty much the same but better than the pro a few minutes after that which had a bonkers mad, HDMI port in and an equally bonkers price. Now they also recently announced the Xperia 5 mark 3, but the only purpose of that is to make you one this. So why not just look at this with the experience of making alpha cameras and cine cameras? They're, more than capable of making this a great phone for photo and video geeks.

It's quite handy they've got shutter button on here, and it's textured, so you can tell the difference between the other buttons on the side. The position of the shutter button is pretty good. It's about right. I mean it's not too far in, but the problem is and there's something that applies to a lot of phones. It's not just this phone, it's quite slippery and at first I thought that it might be metal, but it's actually frosted glass on the back corning gorilla glass, which is tough and drop resistant.

Apparently every time I'm taking a photo, it does feel, like my things are skating all over the back now, the pro that felt less luxurious, but it was better in the hands for taking photos and video. It's just as well. The xp1 mark 3 is made out of drop resistant glass because you might find that you'll be picking this up off the floor quite a bit. This is basic mode, so it's supposed to make it simple for you to take photos or backlight portrait. Is that better everywhere's backlight, so don't bother taking selfies, but anyway the selfie camera is pretty much unchanged.

It's eight megapixels! So let's not bother talking about that. If you're not familiar with Sony phones, which is very possible, given that they're not exactly the most popular phones out there, then here's their photo app and if you like photography, there's lots to like about it. So if you take off basic mode you're presented with an interface that looks just like an alpha camera, if you're feeling a bit pro like, you can get off the basic mode. Well, you've got auto mode. Not so pro p.

You've got your p, not quite you're passim. You got your p s and m, and you choose a shirt. Okay, shutter speed is like that, so the interface is all alpha-like. So if you're an alpha shooter, this is you're going to feel right at home. If you live inside an alpha camera that is and then on the bottom right here, it's just like the function button, and then you've got your metering, your focus there.

We are face IAF, that's on white balance, metering, mode exposure com- if you like fiddling about with settings and stuff, this is great. Have we got raw? Yes, you've got raw and JPEG, and once you open up raw files, you realize how much the JPEGs have been fiddled with at first. You might think that raw files like a bit of sparkle and that's because the JPEGs have been sprinkled with your fair share of sharpening and flavor enhanced, with some better looking skin colors. If you want great looking images straight out of phone, you might be better off sticking with the JPEGs anyway. The app isn't really the new thing here.

Look on the back, though, and that's where all the changes have happened, although it's not the 16 millimeter or the 24 millimeter lens, where things have changed, because that is the same as the Xperia one mark ii and also the pro yeah looking right there and that third opening, that's where all the changes have happened, that's brand new! Essentially, what they've done is fit two tell lenses in there, 70 millimeters and a 105 millimeter, and that change from 70 to 105 is done, optically, which is kind of clever. Isn't if it's all so tiny right, better switch away from the selfie cam, because I'm just looking at my teeth right now there we are take some nice photos. Four lenses sound like a sweet setup, but given the choice, maybe not the four focal lengths I'd go for 16 24. You know it doesn't leave too much of a gap in between, but there's a big gap in between 24 and the 70. And of course you can zoom, but are you losing a bit of quality there in between one times and 2.9 times? I know 16, millimeter and 24 millimeters are beneficial when you're using your phone in the proximity of your subjects and you most likely will be with the phone, but they're quite wide when you're out photographing, subjects that you can't quite get close in on and then the jump from 24 millimeters to 70. Millimeter is quite a big step.

It just seems like you've, got whoa wide and then wow really wide and then nothing in between nothing in between boom tell and then some more telly 24 is a bit too wide for normal use and the 70 is too long for normal use. So essentially, there is no useful normal focal length if they're chucked in a 50 millimeter in there. It might have been better or might have been better if they made a 24 bit longer say a 28 millimeter, so you've got your drive modes, and this does 20. Fps look check this out. There's some high speed action going on here.

Look at that high speed. I might need to actually drink some Red Bull to get some new shots, adrenaline coursing through my veins. It's not just the fact that I can do 20 fps, which is impressive enough already. It can manage that with temporal noise reduction too temporal noise reduction is used to reduce noise in videos by comparing one frame from the next and using clever algorithms, to essentially figure out what is detail that you want, and what is quality noise that you want to reduce? Now they say up to four frames, aligned an average for the noise reduction to happen. How does that actually happen? Well, noise could just be smudge type, but you'd end up losing the detail.

The clever stuff looks at the movement of the noise in adjacent three frames to work out which bits to eliminate without eliminating the details of a moving subject. I mean you don't want to miss out on capturing these slick moves. Do you at the highest ISO of 3200, the noisy stuff is quite prominent, looks a bit softened, although it almost looks like the focus was locked onto the background? Even though the IAF was locking on looking at high ISO shots for optimal results, it's best not to go over ISO 1600 or our push 2000, and what else we've got. You've got continuous autofocus now this uses face detection, autofocus deaf and that's quite fancy for phone. Isn't it of course it's got your usual face eye real time, tracking, whatever aft hat Sony calls it never remember, it's got it whatever it's called.

Let's take a picture of that tugboat. Is that what I call it tugboat? What do you do for a living? I tug stuff there? We are tugboat, the tugging expert, I sometimes mean it's hard to tell how good focus is because pretty much everything is in focus with a phone anyway. Well, let's test to see how it focuses from really close to really far away yeah too far near too far, but how's that compared to a fruity competitor, not the best place to be switching phones from pocket to pocket. Definitely don't want to drop it down there. Okay, noisy bastard, just putting it side to side with an iPhone 11 to get an idea of how it performs, but not to seriously compare because they have different size, sensors and focal lengths, and it's an old phone still note how the apple retains a bit more detail in the sky.

One thing to focus: it almost doesn't seem as quick for video did seem to take a fraction longer to pull focus from near to far and vice versa, and there were quite a few times when it does that autofocus pulsing. One thing I find quite annoying when taking videos that when you stop the recording it takes like almost a second just to stop. So you don't know if you've actually hit stop, and you press again, so it stops, but you've actually started recording again, but the thing is, it has four lenses, two lenses shared with third hole. I don't know why it sounds so rude in my mind anyway. I just wanted the optical stabilization of those two tell lenses aren't equally good, and that's why I know: let's try it with video.

The ultra-wide on Xperia 1 3, even without is looks nice and stable for handheld filming the standard lens, as they might call it. The 24 millimeter stabilization works well as good as the iPhones on the tell lens. The 70 millimeter is just as good as iPhones at 50 millimeters, which is splendid and even at its longest focal length of 105 millimeters. It works wonders for keeping your handheld video shooting really smooth. If you switch on over to the other pro app the cinema pro app, you do get the great Venice cs.

Look the fancy cine camera colors, which I absolutely loved using with its predecessors. It still looks fantastic with the Xperia one free, but now you have a big bonus in the form of 4k 120, which is alright. Isn't it actually it's more than all right? It's a bloody brilliant thing to have in a phone, although it's only available with a 24 millimeter lens and another gripe is that when you start using the cinema pro app you're guaranteed to keep trying to use 180 degrees shutter, but because the aperture is fixed and even in bright, sunlight, ISO, 64 isn't low enough and there's obviously no ND filters. You end up having to make do with not using a 180 degree, shutter, bummer, otherwise, very slick, video all round for the Xperia one free. The image quality is pretty good.

I only had my aging iPhone 11 to compare it with. So not the latest apple camera tech and the focal lengths are different, but for what it's worth the Xperia one mark for you does provide sharper results. You can see the difference in auto white balance too. The apples have a slightly cooler color temp, but they both take raw photos. The Xperia takes ROG files, which is really useful for chucking into photoshop or Lightroom.

In fact, the Xperia one three has an impressively designed camera four lenses and three, even though I wish those four focal lengths left less of a gap between the standard and tell you also, the 4k, 120 and clever noise reduction. Make this a really neat package for those who want a smartphone, that's capable of taking smart looking images. Will it catch on well for apple fanboys? The trouble is it's not an iPhone, but for everybody else, if you're into taking photos or video, you should overlook. The slightly conservative looks and consider this the Xperia one mark iii thanks for watching, and this video is sponsored by Squarespace. If you want to set up your own domain online retail space or website, it's super simple to get started and make your next move with Squarespace, with an easy-to-use in face filled with loads of templates and backed up with 24 7 customer service.

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Source : Kai W