Sony Xperia 1 VI: Photographer's Review

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I am your subscriber from the beginning please give me a phone that has a great camera my phone camera is trash

sony is chasing a non-existent niche with their "camera" phones. their camera phone's does not warrant their pricetag at all. a person with some photography knowledge can get similar shots from a mid range phone or a pixel, why would anyone spend so much on a sony phone?!

actually the tele macro mode was started a few months ago with huawei pura 70, I think. Lots of Chinese phones has this feature this year, from a few months ago. Vivo, Honor, and recently is Xiaomi too. Sony isn't the first one, but I glad they include it to their xperia.

As a Photographer, I can say, now Sony left, the thing I could actually buy it for - menu, and pro app. The look was insanely satisfying. Now it's average "black&white" menu.
They changed EVERYTHING that camera really had. The cameras are falling behind really hard. I'd not place this camera in top 5. It's worse than S24 Ultra, and S24 Ultra is worse than Huawei Pura 70 Ultra. That says a lot.

Wish you could review the OnePlus 12 and do a Photography review. It would be super awesome I know it.

There are much better alternatives
Vivo x100 Ultra, Xiaomi 14 Ultra,Oppo Find X7 Ultra

They are much better

the Raws are kind of underwhelming in my opinion. I figured out that shooting in 48MP with the "natural" profile has the best results and still allows for a decent amount of editing. It's doesn't quite have the actual 48MP level of detail, but if you convert them to 12 or 24MP in post and slightly soften them, they can pretty much keep up with something like an aps-c camera, obviously only at 24mm and good lighting conditions

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Thank you for preventing me from spending another £1,200. I am having some problems with the telephoto of my Xperia 1v when taking shots on the street at night. I expected a massive camera upgrade from a V to VI, but it's minor. I guess I will have to wait two more years.

I really want to buy this phone but every review says not to. Is it really vastly incomparable to iphones?

I completely agree with you. The telephoto is good but only very occasionally. It really doesn't like not enough lighting. At this point I'm just waiting for it to reach 1/2 inch just so it can flex more. It could still be better.

My vivo 100x ultra or even the pro version will blow the living shit out of that phone

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And that's it!

Very accurate review, I can confirm

Coming from xperia 1-4 and 5. I think the color science of the 4 was the best but the overheating was atrocious. 5 started having processing and it didn't feel so natural. I think 6 marks the end if my Sony run. I liked using the video pro and camera pro apps (even though sometimes froze).

I've had iPhone, Xiaomi and Sony. Among all of them, i prefer the Sony pictures.
The iPhone processed pictures too much and the Xiaomi had a weird color science.

And in general, the Sony hardware is pretty good, it never let me down. I can't say the same about my iPhone...

I think Sony is just failing to get both the phone and now the camera part right in their Xperias.

Worst zoom on the smartphone. Have Xperia 1 VI - zoom is terrible!! Actually, worst phone of 2024!

The Xperias are very special, good and bad. I was recently sorting out my google photos and reached where I got my 5IV. And good damn did the portrait photos blow my Note20 ultra out of the water! In good lighting that is. When the circumstances was not ideal it didn’t perform well at all. Blurry and soft. But then the autofocus and fast shutter speed is among the best I’ve experienced on a smartphone. But the videos is no where near the quality of my iPhone. And so on and so on.

Apple and Samsung did no innovation in cameras from last 4 -5 years.they are using same cameras from 2020. Sony itself is GOD❤. Definite purchase.

So many rules just for this phone's cameras bruh

Is 48mp really the sweet spot for RAW? I wished smartphones actually put 24mp and put more resources on other areas like all lense being 1.4 aperture at 24mp with much faster shutter priority.