Xperia 1 III :: HANDS ON First Impressions By The Art of Photography

This is the Xperia one mark iii, which is the latest flagship smartphone in Sony's Xperia lineup. I've been a big fan of these phones over the last few versions, and while I think that Sony has offered something unique well, let's just say it was a little under powered in a few areas. Well, not anymore. So there are some really nice additions to this phone from a hardware perspective that make it competitive with the best phones on the market. Sony were gracious enough to. Let me use this phone for a short amount of time, and so, while it's not really a full review, think of it as a hands-on.

First look I'm really impressed, but I will follow up this video with a full review when I've had some more time with the phone. I think you're really going to like this, though, let's start with the specs, so the Xperia one mark iii is built around a snapdragon 888 5g chipset. It's compatible, obviously with 5g, but also Wi-Fi 6, so you're going to get better speeds and lower latency also improved. This is a big one. Is the battery.

We now have a 4500 m battery with wireless and reverse wireless charging. We also have wired fast charging with the included charger, which is going to give you 50 battery charge in 30 minutes. The phone is ip6568 water resistant, certified. The screen uses corning gorilla glass victim, which is the toughest gorilla glass. Yet so it's pretty drop and scratch resistance, and it's one of the few smartphones on the market to still feature a headphone jack.

I feel like in many ways this phone is a culmination of all the Xperia 1 versions that we've seen so far all kind of brought up to date in one phone, and we do have some big features that make a big difference and make this really competitive with any flagship on the market. First there's the screen so 4k HDR, but we also finally have 120 hertz refresh rate, and it supports a hertz touch scanning rate, so this is seriously responsive and if you're, a gamer, you're really going to love it. So, let's talk about my favorite feature on this phone, which is the camera system. So I've been a big fan of what Sony have done with the Xperia cameras for smartphones. It's the camera that for a photographer like me, if you want to have a fine amount of control over your images, it's the smartphone camera that actually acts like a real camera.

Opera. One three uses three lenses that give you four different camera options. So we've got the ultra-wide, which is a 16 millimeter focal length, equivalent the standard, wide, 24, millimeter and now the first ever variable telephoto lens. This is a periscope lens, so it sits sideways inside the phone body and the lens has an optically adjusting focal length. So it gives you two options here, so there's an equivalent of a 70, millimeter, f 2.3 and a 105 millimeter, f 2.8, and if that wasn't impressive enough to design the variable, telephoto lens also uses a dual phase detection sensor, which gives you an impressively fast and accurate autofocus capability. Like the previous version, the camera also uses the ITF, or I time a flight sensor to measure distance.

So when you combine, these you've got one of the most impressive camera module systems for autofocus that I've seen. We still have the real-time tracking brought over from the previous Xperia one. We also have real-time IAF for humans and animals. You get 60 autofocus and auto exposure calculations per second and the ability to shoot, burst images up to 20 frames, a second on the main camera. We also have a much larger one over 1.7 inch sensor, so you're going to get much better image, quality in low light, and actually it does have some both rendering when you have depth of field in your shot, it's really kind of nice. If you're familiar with Sony's approach to smartphone photography, you know that it's a lot more traditional than the computational imaging heavy aspect that a lot of other phones are doing.

You still have some of that under the hood, but the approach is much like using an actual camera, so sure you can leave it in the p mode and have full auto function over everything. But if you want to get specific- and you want to control your ISO or your shutter speed, then you have a lot more finite control over something like this, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that this is co-designed with the alpha team. So having an incredible camera doesn't hurt and a lot of that technology has made its way into the phone. I have noticed with the image quality that the low light performance is absolutely outstanding. There's a noticeable improvement here.

I also really like the two telephoto lenses with that variable optical design. I think that 105 is an excellent focal length for things like portraits. It's not too long. It's also not too short. Furthermore, it's optical quality.

Furthermore, it's not a digital zoom and I think they've done an outstanding job with this. This phone is really fast. It's extremely responsive- and I think speed is the name of the game, because we have some incredible hardware upgrades that make things possible. So if you want a slick phone that is super responsive, this is definitely the way to go. If you already have one of the Xperia 1 phones, and you're wondering whether this is worth the upgrade, I think that it probably is in a couple areas.

I mentioned low light performance, so if you shoot a lot of low light photography, this is going to be something that you probably would appreciate in this phone. I think the other thing is the telephoto lenses. They really are that good, and they are a marked improvement over the portrait focal length that we had in the previous versions, and so I think those two reasons right. There are enough to want to upgrade on this. We still have the dedicated pro apps for both still photography shooting and video.

I think these applications are the best that I've seen on any phone if you want a lot of control over your images, if you're just taking snapshots. These might not be that interesting to you, but if you come from a traditional photography background like I do, this really is the most interesting phone I think on the market today, and I think it's really cool that Sony are taking a different approach. They're not trying to follow the herd they're producing something that actually is different and is a nice alternative, as I mentioned earlier, this is more of a hands-on first look at this phone. I need some more time before I can give it a full review, and I intend to do that as soon as I can. So, if you have any questions for that, please drop them in the comments below, and I will see you guys in the next video until then later.

Source : The Art of Photography