Introduction
Sony made fairly the stir a few days in the past by asserting the ‘first smartphone with a 1″-type digital camera sensor and phase-detect autofocus’ – the Xperia Professional-I (‘I’ for Imaging). In our hands-on, we tried to make clear that, whereas in reality there’s a 1″-type sensor within the telephone, simply its heart is used, and it successfully behaves extra like a 1/1.33″-type unit, basically the identical measurement you’d discover in a Galaxy S21 Extremely, vivo X70 Professional+, or a Mi 11, and it is even smaller than the one discovered within the Mi 11 Extremely (1/1.12″-type). We’ll need to maintain repeating that, because of Sony’s deceptive advertising language, however finally that is not what we’re right here for now.
As an alternative, we’ll direct our consideration to the Xperia Professional-I’s video recording capabilities, of which it has a lot, much more than earlier high-end Xperias. The Professional-I has three apps that can be utilized for video seize relying in your stage of experience and use case; it could possibly file 4K at as much as 120fps, it has a trio of mics and an additional customizable button along with the same old shutter launch, it helps new equipment that make it a whole light-weight vlogging rig.
App overview
Sony’s been providing the Cinema Professional (or Cinematography Professional) app because the Xperia 1, and it acquired a couple of refinements over time to get to the place we at the moment are, although we nonetheless would not name it good. Co-developed with the CineAlta department of the Japanese firm, this one is for extra superior customers and requires a sure workflow and post-processing to get to a completed product.
Video Professional (or Videography Professional) is the brand new addition to the software program bundle. It slots in between Cinema Professional and the ‘default’ app in complexity and capabilities – it nonetheless lets you tweak taking pictures parameters however is geared extra in the direction of shoot-and-send situations with no post-production concerned.
Then there’s the Photograph Professional (or Images Professional) app, type of the default app. Do not be fooled by the title; it could possibly file video simply fantastic. In its Fundamental mode, it is the inheritor to the unique plain Xperia digital camera app, earlier than all of the devoted apps got here to be, and it brings some extent a shoot expertise with little to no management over the method. We’ll discuss extra about these different two apps on the following web page.
We’ll be beginning off with Cinema Professional.