Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Sony Xperia Pro-I: Road Trip Review (Hawaii)”.
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Of course, because i’ll just look at it, sick docked with its optional tripod accessory and magnetic monitor. This thing leaves no doubt about the kind of customer it’s built for it’s a phone for vloggers for travelers who’d prefer not to carry a full-size camera. In other words, it’s a phone for me as you’d expect from sony. It has the components for the job splitting the space between 16mm wide and 50 millimeter telephoto cameras is a 24 millimeter shooter, backed by a one inch sensor. That’S much larger than you’ll find on.
Most phones, in fact, it’s the same sensor, found on sony’s rx100 point and shoot the seventh generation of which is newer than other recent one-inch phones, like the leica lights phone one. Of course, there is a big caveat here, which we will cover when we get on the road surrounding those cameras is a slab that barely needs describing, if you’ve seen any sony phone from the past three years or so a 21×9 diving board of an oled screen With all the right numbers for crisp, smooth scrolling and a gorilla glass, victus top layer for added durability, a no pin required card tray, good for sims and storage expansion, a three and a half millimeter jack good for more than just headphones and ribbed side rails. For grip and a diamond textured shutter button that seem more at home in a box of camera gear than on the shelf at your local phone store, there’s even a notification light for those of us who think those should never have been retired for the back plate. I wish sony had gone with the plastic it used on the xperia pro instead of gorilla glass 6, and i wish it had found space underneath for wireless charging. But aside from that, there’s not much to complain about it’s at once. Brutalist and beautiful discreet, yet distinctive.
In other words, it’s what it’s always been a sony phone and that’s a pattern. I don’t mind seeing repeated if you’re buying the pro i by itself, you’ll also confront another cyclical sonyism, the price. But you know, i’m not gon na dwell on the fact that this thing costs just as much as a galaxy fold.
Three, because, if you haven’t noticed, that’s the new direction, sony has chosen aiming more specialized, more expensive phones at far smaller pools of more specific types of customer and by the numbers it seems to be working. I will say, though, that i wish that price included the extras that really make this thing shine. Sony also loaned me, the bluetooth tripod grip that it’s sold alongside its point-and-shoots for a while, as well as the new vlog, monitor a combined 340 dollars of accessories. That compensate for the fact that this phone’s selfie shooter is not very good. How well because, once you’ve, paired and plugged everything in you can use the pro eyes primary cameras as selfie cameras, and that means you can capture the cycles of life more comfortably and at higher quality than ever before. It should come as little surprise that a phone built with cinematic ambition put, in even mildly, competent hands and flown to one of the most beautiful settings in the world.
Well, it tends to deliver helping out with that is a new app called video pro which unlocks more control than the basic mode, while not getting quite as complex as cinema pro and unlocks 4k filming at 120 frames per second for the kind of slow motion shots. I just can’t seem to get enough of even using the camera in basic mode for more prosaic projects it delivered. I used it to do my job, shooting qualcomm’s, new snapdragon, chipsets laptops reference phones and that new gaming deck of theirs, oh granted.
The lighting was exceptional for this part of the shoot, but look these clips look like they came out of a proper camera. Don’T they part of that is thanks to a feature you don’t see on many phones, a variable aperture that lets in more or less light, depending on your setting and in the process. It also changes the nature of the bouquet or blur of the background for still photos, as in video, sony gives you tools to manipulate almost everything which is useful.
For example, if you shoot a lot of gadgets because you can adjust the shutter speed to eliminate that banding, you sometimes see on displays or you can fire up the 20fps burst mode to try and catch an executive on stage in just the perfect pose, or you Know just leave it on auto, let it do its thing. The pixel, 6 delivers more dynamic range and the iphone is easier to use, but there’s something very natural about the xperia’s photos, the color the depth. It often reminds me of the shots i got from the last few film cameras i had over two decades ago to wrap up all this good stuff.
You may have noticed this additional microphone on the back. That, combined with the existing stereo pickups, makes the pro eye very well suited for run and gun narration. The quality of the narration itself, of course, is another story anyway. So i learned something here: we have finished up our meal and that was really great, but the number one thing i’ve learned at the summit so far never become a boss, because i think it took about 20 minutes to eat that food and this guy still on The phone with underlings doing some kind of authority thing. I don’t know what he’s up to, but he has not gotten to eat. Don’T let them promote you, don’t let them transfer you, don’t let them do anything.
That’S a star trek line. Don’T worry about it! We’Ll talk later josh josh, how many toys do you have on this trip? I have many. How do you feel about it? This is, i feel, threatened and vaguely aroused [ Laughter ] and yes, i am very happy to report that if you have a suitable, trrs, cable and an external microphone pack, like the rode wireless go, both of which i did not have last time, i reviewed a Sony phone you can use an external mic plugs right into the 3.5 millimeter jack and i think it sounds pretty great now remember this is a sony phone, and this is a video about history repeating itself, so i’m duty-bound to drop the other shoe on you, which I’Ll do right after this [ Applause ].
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The link in the description will get a one month. Free trial of skillshare start exploring your creativity today and thanks to skillshare for sponsoring this video. If the brightpoints were all i had to report about the xperia pro, i i’d already have put an order in, for the whole 2100 bundle, but there are significant compromises for one thing as much as i love most of the stuff that comes out of this camera, The competition is just more capable in some settings. I mean when your friend gets on stage with singer: songwriter jp sex to belt out tom, petty songs.
You want a clean telephoto shot and you want it fast. The pixel 6 pro provided that, while the xperia really didn’t ditto for the low light shots that google’s computational approach makes much more compelling than sony’s attempt to do it in camera. There are other issues too. Stabilization is great until it’s not, and the trip to this particular jellyville can be especially nauseating.
Also sony’s shutter key is far too sensitive. This time around. It takes almost no pressure to trigger a half press to focus. So if your finger or palm brushes it while you’re framing up a vertical shot, it’ll try to get focus and won’t let you take a photo with the on-screen button.
I miss a lot of pictures because of that, but not as many as i missed, because of how often the phone overheated i get it. Hawaii is hot, but in some cases the phone threw in the towel. After just a minute of filming giving me the most forbidding warning message, i’ve ever seen in the process i didn’t get burned, but i did have to wait until it cooled down over and over and over again.
It was probably that combination of thermals camera overuse and google photos uploads over a very crowded network that forced me to constantly recharge this phone during the week. Even when i wasn’t going ham on the camera on my lightest day, i was still down to 16. After about eight hours and recharging is only relatively quick according to the power pack, i’m borrowing from charge asap the phone drew about 20 watts for most of the half hour.
It took to take it from 30 to 70 percent kind of makes. You wish the tripod grip had a power pack built in or something and finally many other reviews have pointed out that by only using 12 of the available 20 megapixels on the sensor, the pro i can’t really claim to be a one-inch sensor smartphone. While that doesn’t actually bother me much the phone’s other shortcomings combined with its high price tag, well, they make me unwilling to totally give it a pass here.
All of this has indeed happened before sony has again made a phone with immense technical capability that lags behind when it comes to fire and forget reliability. If that were all there was to it, i’d give it my usual better luck next year, but when its nitty-gritty features were combined with that tripod and monitor, i found i really was able to capture the essence of a trip much more effectively than i could have With any other phone camera, so sony has something here, something it hasn’t had before and something that goes well with its new focus, a user experience that caters very well to a specific niche. If in the next generation it can manage to hammer out those thermal and few remaining camera issues, it might finally break the sony cycle.
This review was produced following five days with an xperia pro i review sample provided by sony and tested at the 2021 snapdragon summit. In hawaii, for which qualcomm provided travel lodging and entertainment, i asked sony for comment on some of the issues i found and we’ll post those down below if the company responds, but neither sony nor qualcomm was given copy approval or other editorial input of any kind they’re. Seeing it for the first time right alongside you until next time, i’ve been michael fisher thanks for watching and stay mobile. My friends .