Photos are extremely blurry

I never was much into photography, so it didn’t bother me before but recently I started taking a photo here and there and the SFOS photos on my X10III are all extremely blurry.

Is there some setting or something to tweak? I tried stock camera app, Advanced camera and Open Camera (both camera 1 and 2 api).

I tried the triple camera patch, doesn’t really help.

Is there anything to tweak to make the photos actually look at least good? I was not expecting the best quality, but I also didn’t expect quality that’s worse than phones 20 years ago.

Can this be the compressing level of the jpg encoding? Can it be changed to better quality, less compression?

edit: but on my device photos don’t look blurry.

blurry like not focused ?
the fotos on my experia 10 were ok when enough light
the shutter on c2 is super slow, so most of the not sharp fotos are due to movement, as the shutter needs like 2-3 secs

as soon as light is not optimal, fotos are in fact not usable for archiving.

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The camera is the main thing I carry another device with me for. Photos on SFOS have always* been substandard unless the lighting is exceptional.

*) well, maybe not in 2013 on the J1

Don’t think so, even the preview looks as blurry and grainy.

Sorry to ask, did you clean your lenses :person_shrugging:?

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Does this perhaps have to with the camera focus hang issue on the Xperia 10 iii?

Indeed I did clean my lenses.

Don’t think so, it focuses, but the quality is simply horrible.

Not always. On the XA2, photos are not extraordinary, and become bad in low light conditions compared to an Android XA2, due to the irreversible loss of the proprietary code when we unlock the bootloader.
But on the SFOS Gigaset GS5 (not lite), I found them surprisingly good, also in low light conditions.

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With the xa2, the photos are acceptable except, as Ric9k says, in low light.
With the C2, they are absolutely horrible, blurry, and out of focus.
Do you have this problem with the front camera as well?
If not, I would lean toward a physical problem with the internal lens.
If so, it is probably related to a software problem.

Just in case, another thing: by default, I think you have to tap the area where you want to focus with your finger.

If I don’t do that, my images aren’t sharp.

It might be a good idea to check the focus settings in advanced camera.

Most times the stock camera in my Xperia 10 III does a good job (I wouldn’t say ‘great’), but sometimes I get this weird patterns of yellowish dots in the blue colour when taking photos on fine summer days and having a lot of sky in the picture (I’m sailing a lot during summer). Other than that, the photos are mostly sharp, and the colours are fine.

Where is the UFO? :wink: (20 chars)

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