topic Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2 in 1 Series

Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

emanuele93 — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:25:44 GMT

Hey!

I got the phone today as it just got released and was really looking forward trying the cameras. The main cameras are working well but the front one is extremely blurry and feels like it's smoothing my face and everything else extremely to the point that it looks like something greasy is on the lens. Video calls are a horrible experience at the moment and I'm really hoping someone can help me resolve this. I went through all the options of the camera and tried them but none seemed to make a difference with this.

If someone could give me any advice that would be amazing.

Kindest regards,

Emanuele

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

Ersan_T — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:54:24 GMT

I'm experiencing the exact same issue with my Xperia 1 II, the front camera is quite frankly awful, it does look like the soft skin effect is turned on. I hope this is a software issue and gets resolved ASAP!

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

Mason84 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:39:29 GMT

Hi I just got the phone today and like you guy I really dislike the filter-like quality of the front facing camera and I have no idea why but during video calls such as WhatsApp or Facebook messenger video call it's really poor quality to the point there's no details whatsoever. Quite disappointed really, hope it gets fixed real soon or its going back, expect much more from a flagship phone

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

joschi21 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:01:23 GMT

I got the exact same problem with the front facing camera but also the same problems with the rear cameras to.

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

ryan__ — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:42:09 GMT

Same here, the camera app has a setting for skin smoothing in the front facing camera but it looks like it is still active evenw you turn it off

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

Gilgameshuk — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:55:53 GMT

You know folks

Though I have only got the original xperia 1 MARK 1 I remember a similar issue on my phone -until the first major update resolved it.

Checked front camera settings and unchecked 'soft skin effect' id not seem to do much.

It is also worth noting that ,that front camera is a Samsung sensor.

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

ryan__ — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:36:45 GMT

It is due to a lower quality camera sensor on the front compared to the main camera on the back. Software alone will not compensate for this.

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

nimurgi86 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:25:12 GMT

Same here, but with Xperia 5 ii, as it was for my previous Xperia 5.

Do you think is possible to fix this issue?

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

ryan__ — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:41:57 GMT

You can try installing another camera app to see a comparison to the one pre-installed, but when I tried this the image quality is still poor. After looking into this I found out that there is a low quality sensor on for the front facing camera and a high quality sensor for the main camera on the back, which is why selfies look bad. Let's hope Sony uses better camera sensors for the front facing camera in future versions.

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

GreXperia — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 23:33:51 GMT

I just got my Xperia 5 ii today as a replacement to my Google Pixel 3. I can confirm that the outgoing video quality on WhatsApp video call is horrible! I still don't have the November software update , but I really hope Sony or WhatsApp can fix this. Video calls are just horrible now and this is not expected from a costly phone like this!

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

GreXperia — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 23:35:23 GMT

Sony make their own camera sensors and supply it to major manufacturers like Apple and Google. Why would they use a Samsung sensor?

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

CosmicTomato — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:38:25 GMT

People have mentioned in other threads, that Samsung uses Sony's lenses, how do you know the x5m2 has a Samsung sensor?

Also is the video quality in other social media apps bad, as if it's the one app, troubleshoot it, by clearing cache, uninstalling updates, then the app itself and re-install it once more.

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

Lord_viridis — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:31:39 GMT

@GreXperia wrote:

Sony make their own camera sensors and supply it to major manufacturers like Apple and Google. Why would they use a Samsung sensor?

Many reasons, coul be that maybe Samsung might have had a deal with some sensors along with oled panels, could be financial where the Samsung sensor was cheaper than even Sony's in-house FF sensor. Lots of reasons possible that us mere mortals are never to learn.

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

CosmicTomato — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:21:58 GMT

That couldn't be more true, corporate entities make the decisions that are suitable for the continuity of the business and to consist profits, either by saving on production or any other means really, a lot goes on backstage where we simply just can't access, and for obvious reasons to avoid controversy. Cheers fellow mortals.

Re: Blurry front camera Xperia 1 mark 2

Gilgameshuk — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:09:18 GMT

It is a kind of a slap in the face insult for Sony users for Sony to use Samsung sensors on a Sony phone.

If I wanted low quality Samsung sensors I would have bought a samsung, along with its rubbish memory management, bloatware and their slow version of Android.

We buy Sony for SONY products.

Device info shows the 1 mark 1 to have 3 Samdung sensors and one sony

front camera main rear and tele are Samsung and only the ultra wide is sony

The 1 mark 2 has two Samdung and two Sony. (selfie and tele are Samsung and the main and ultrawide are sony)

It might be fair to say that Sony PM's are kind of laughing at us by putting Samsung sensors on a sony phone KNOWING that its ALWAYS the Samsung sensors that let the phone down. For example: the main sensor on the 2019 model Xperia 1 (could not perform any kind of stability at 4k video recording)

Example on my channel

Now that Sony have used a SUPERIOR Sony sensor as the main sensor on the Mark 2, instead of the lower quality Samsung one on the 2019 model, then we see decent stabilisation, but its marred by the rubbish front camera.

Listen up Sony: We KNOW like all other big companies that you don't care about brand loyalty and things like that, but this you should take to heart. USE Sony Sensors exclusively in a SONY phone otherwise you are simply setting yourself up to fail

SAMSUNG Sensors are the Suxxors Sony sensors FTW