Sony Xperia PRO | Smartphone for cameras By Wex Photo Video

As a rule here at wax photo video. We don't sell phones, um. The cameras on phones are normally pretty bad um, so it's not something we specialize in. However, what if I was to tell you we are now going to be stocking a phone where, although having a pretty impressive camera module that isn't its main feature in our eyes. Well, here it is. This: is the Sony Xperia pro now, some of you sort of gadget heads who have had your Instagram for a while will have seen this around the world? This has come out in other countries, but it has not been available in the UK.

Up until now and now here at we, we've got the exclusive we're bringing this phone to you, and it's pretty cool. Now it isn't. It is not going to be for everyone. This is right, you'll hear as I go through this video that this might not be for you, but it's a really impressive piece of tech, and I think even people who maybe don't purchase this are going to be interested in what this phone can offer. Now, I'm going to start off with the three main headlines to start off with this Xperia pro can work as an external monitor you can plug in via a HDMI port.

Don't often see that in a phone into your camera, and then you can use it as an external monitor, there's some fantastic screen resolutions color spacing which we'll talk about later in this video as well. Secondly, it can make use of 5g technology to be able to transmit whatever you need it to transmit, but the specialist things that we're looking at here are going to be live-streaming and also speeding up your transfer of images. So you can make use the ftp servers now that is going to be huge news for press photographers who need to get images out immediately. Maybe don't always have access to a wild connection or the Wi-Fi might be really, really slow, where you are it's great to know that this is going to allow you to do that. Thirdly, the design of this phone is created to enhance all of those technological features.

Now go through this a little more but notice that this isn't a glass of metal back. We don't have a rounded screen, and we've got this HDMI port. So there are things in this phone. We just don't see in other models, all in all, not your standard phone, and it is a good job, because this also doesn't come with a standard. Phone's price tag, I'm going to put the information, so you can check out our store page in the description of this video.

If you're watching on YouTube, there'll also be a little card for you to click on as well, so you can take a look okay, it is a lot of money, but don't tune out straight away right because this isn't a phone necessarily. This is a tool, a working professional tool and, as I say, it's not going to be for everyone, but I think for the people who can make use of the features that it has it's going to be an absolute godsend. Now, let's start off with some basics, this is still a phone right. You can make phone calls with this. You can install Netflix, which I have done.

Furthermore, you can install Spotify. Furthermore, you can listen to your music as you go, and then you can crack out, and it can become your professional tool as well, which I think is the impressive thing about this. It's the hybrids of the device that can be an everyday tool as well as something that's really special to you. That does run a 4 000 William battery. I've been testing this over last couple of weeks.

I've had it, but I've been using it a lot over the last sort of three or four days, and I've not charged if it's on 37 at the moment. So I think that's pretty good right 37. You think what our phones are generally now like. I've got my Samsung here, and it's on 16 it's on battery saver and I charged it at 11 o'clock this morning. So it's not great right.

However, to be fair, I haven't been using this as my standard phone, but I have been doing a lot of um like video stuff with it a lot of testing stuff, some screen recording, and I've just left it on as well. For that whole time. So I'm pretty impressed with that. I think that's pretty good. I would say this has got an all-day battery um with some pretty intensive use, and you can also put on an economy mode as well, which will highlight whatever you're doing, and it will put the apps to sleep in the background and just make sure you're not wasting energy, so they have thought about it with this phone, but, as you can see, it's a nice big device that has a nice big battery.

We've also got a really impressive camera module here. Now this isn't the main thing about this Xperia pro right. That's not you're not buying it for this, but because this is from Sony. You'd expect this to be good, and it is. We have three lenses which are all mass t style lenses, and they all take 12.

Megapixel images don't seem like a lot, but you do not need more than that from a phone. I've been saying this for a long time: small sensors don't chuck loads of megapixels in there. It'll always look bad, especially in low light. So I'm happy with the 12 megapixel images from this we've got a 16 mil lens a 24?mm lens and a 70?mm lens, so it just allows you a little of range, I'm a big fan of having a wider end in a phone camera, because I think, if you're ever going to need that really wide angle on demand on your phone when you're out with friends or maybe when you're on a shoot. I think that's a perfect thing to have, and what I've been saying is that if you are using this as a tool, and you've got it in your bag, two users at all.

I think that 16 mil lens would be great for if you're trying to show off a shot, maybe you're sending something over to your editor or your director. Isn't. On set that day- and you want to send something over really, really quick, this allows you to get those images and send them over exactly what you're doing, and they'll be able to get a good idea of what you're looking at. So I think it's really useful to have that nice phone, the camera module in the back, and also it is worth pointing out that the AF technology that we see in the like top end, Sony cameras. That's what's inside here.

The eye autofocus is fantastic. I was filming with George the other day, and it was just picking him up constantly, even when he turned around and like flipped back round it was picking up his eye, so I was really impressed with the camera on this, but now, let's move on to the really exciting stuff, like the fact that this can be used as an external monitor. Now having an external monitor, that's this small and compact, but has this impressive screen size is a really nice usable tool that, if you're put employing it into your setup, it's just not going to take up much extra space. It's so much easier than carrying a big atoms around. However, it's got to perform right now.

There's lots of things on screen for you to be able to use when you're running the external monitor you can flip it 180 degrees to see your setup there you can put in grid lines. You can adjust the brightness things like that. However, why buy it over an atoms or a small HD? Why would you do that? Because, if you're using a monitor like this, it's normally because you need the quality, you need to be able to see the color and things like that right. Well, this does have a 4k OLED screen. It can support a BT, 2020 color space.

There's lots built into this phone to make this a really nice monitoring solution. Now I wanted to um I had to play with this uh in sunlight as well, and I was quite impressed with the brightness. I was pretty happy with that. Obviously this isn't a matted screen. There's no sun guard, so there are some downsides as well.

So I wanted to get Sean's point of view. So I popped this phone over to Sean and these are his thoughts on the Xperia pro being used as an external monitor the Sony Xperia pro right, so before I get into the specs of what makes the monitor display on this thing, really desirable for people looking for an external monitor for their camera. I also just want to mention that, besides it just being an external monitor solution, it is also an on-the-go streaming device sort of solution as well, because with this being a phone with it having access to 4g and 5g, you are you're, given some really reliable connections for outputting video online as live. If you wanted to, and now I'm talking twitch. TV, I'm talking YouTube live, I'm talking, Facebook live and periscope for Twitter and applications like that.

This is a phone that would be perfect for that kind of thing, because, with the HDMI that you plug straight through into your camera, you're getting an amazing picture, quality signal straight there and then, which you don't often get with a phone, but with the HDMI you've got a perfect signal and this signal offers a 10-bit picture quality and just to clarify when we're moving an 8-bit image and adding the extra 2-bits to it. What we're calling that is: 10-bit tonal gradation, it's a software that is implemented within the phone itself that when it receives its 8-bit image through the HDMI, it will basically smooth out the edges of those eight bits that have been sampled and then boost it up to the equivalent of a 10-bit picture and with that outputting that 10-bit image to your online platforms. This becomes a very valuable tool for that and, besides the 10-bit malarkey, this also offers you a p3 display, and what that means is that on the color spectrum, you know you've got RGB, which is a lot shorter than p3. But that's RGB is what a lot of people are accustomed to. If you think rec 709, it's around that sort of range as well a very limited color space that it can see, whereas p3 can see a much wider range of colors, offering you a more vivid display with all that said, the image quality expected from this phone is going to be very useful to anyone who decides to pick this up and with it being a smartphone as well just think about how often you bring your smartphone with you not just out in the field, but just out in everyday life and with this camera attached onto here and the kind of just the usability that you have with this, like it's not a case of you're, bringing your external monitor with your camera, you're, bringing your camera with your external monitor.

That's something to think about back to you Amy. I've already said this has a pretty good photo mode which it does, but it also has a pro photo mode. We see that a lot in phones now it basically allows you to change your settings, so you can set your own exposure. I really like this, but I think it's especially important in a phone like this now. This is meant to be a tool that you take on shoot with you, and that means, if you have that capability, you are able to send off images that are a correct exposure.

Now that that sounds really basic, but phones often get it wrong. They don't get the look that you're after and if you're trying to show somewhere, where you're about to shoot or the color that you're getting behind you, or maybe the sunset that you're about to do your shoot on. Sometimes it can be very frustrating if you can't show someone exactly how that's meant to be looking and with that photo pro mode. You're able to do that. Also, I think kind of the point of this is to have your tool that you take out you're shooting with professionally, but then also when you get on the train, and you're going home, and you can listen to your music.

It's also nice to actually have a phone camera with you sometimes, and this has a good one, that you have some control over which, as a professional, photographer or videographer, that's really nice. Now coming back to video, it also has a cinema pro mode. I really like that. So, when you go into this, it actually gives you proper control over your projects. You can make projects on the phone you can set the frame rates, shutter speeds.

Unfortunately it doesn't have a built-in ND, which is kind of annoying, so you do have to use your shutter speed for exposure which doesn't make sense with the type of phone this is, but still, if I can, I can get over that um, and it does allow you to do different frame rates and also even shoot in things like the Venice collar space from Sony as well. So, if you, if you think of this one as a tool for yourself for creativity, okay, so one for that reason, it's really fun it's nice to use, but secondly, if you're on shoe and um, maybe a sports event or whatever and things are getting a little too radial. You can't have your main camera out or something's gone wrong. That just allows you to get a bit of footage that you know is in the right frame rate that you can drop in an emergency. It's certainly fine.

If you're doing a bit of news-gathering for socials, you can drop that in, and you've got a little of grading capability. There are other color profiles that you can use as well, so you don't have to do as much grading gives you some things that are a little flatter for contrast days, there's just a little of workable space there for you. That gives you some other options and that's what this phone's all about. It gives you tools. It gives you professional options that aren't what you see from normal phones, hence that incredibly high price tag now in terms of just a quick overview of the design itself, and I've already spoken about the fact that this has that sort of plastic back and things like that.

But there's also a couple of other things that I want to point out one. This does have a fingerprint scanner here. So if you are doing you know confidential stuff, you might want to make sure nobody's getting into this phone where your thumb sits here. That is a fingerprint reader. I found it works most of the time um.

Maybe I'm just holding it weird, or maybe my hands are too small to fit this well, but it can be a bit funny, but you can obviously use a pin if you want to we've got volume keys here. What I like best is this button. Now there is a slightly raised button here, which does have a bit of a texture feel to it, and you can basically use it as a shutter button which again you're not going to buy this specifically for the camera module. But if you have got this phone that camera module is going to be a big plus now I could talk about this all day, there's so much going on with this phone. It has fantastic specs as well um, but this has been out for a while right.

This is out worldwide. We just haven't seen it in the UK before, but now you've got us, you got wax photo video, bringing you the exclusivity on the Xperia pro so make sure to check out all the info on our website. We've got so, so much information on there I'll put a link in the description, so you can have a look at that and if this has taken your fancy, and you're thinking, this is the perfect tool for me. It just makes things fast. It gives me the connectivity that I'm after then, you can also place an order through there as well.

If you've got some more questions for us, you can of course give us a call, email us or put a comment here. We'll try our best to get back to you with any information that you could need. Also, I've got this for a little while, when this video is released, I'll, hopefully still have this phone. If Sony haven't taken it away from me yet, so I'm hoping that I can answer any questions that you have. If I haven't covered it or Sean hasn't covered it in this video.

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