
The image quality is good - noise levels are kept relatively low and there is enough fine detail, although not the best in the 8MP league. Also at your disposal are a self-timer, shutter sound, exposure, white balance and metering settings. Other settings include changing the resolution, toggling between front/back camera, photo light (but it's switched manually, not automatically as a flash), geotagging, image stabilization and focus mode. If you are too slow or too fast you'll have to start over.ĭepending on which panorama mode you have chosen, you will be able either to view your 2D shot (4912x1080 pixels) on your Xperia pro or take it on a 3D TV and see it there. Unfortunately you can't choose how long it will be, you have to shoot it until the slider run out. Anyway, it’s very easy to take a panorama - you just follow an on-screen slider until you reach the end and your panorama shot is taken.
#PANORAMA X DATABASE REVIEW PORTABLE#
The Sweep Panorama option is available in lots of Sony portable cameras, so it should be familiar to some of you.
#PANORAMA X DATABASE REVIEW ANDROID#
The two panorama modes are the additions brought by the Android 2.3.4. In Normal, you pick the Scene settings manually or you can enable Scene recognition and let the Xperia pro take a guess (it's fairly good at it). You can choose between five capture modes - Normal, Scene recognition, Smile detection, Sweep Panorama and 3D Sweep Panorama. The shortcuts in the left column can be rearranged and you can replace some of them with others from the extended menu. It’s a clever solution that lets you pick how much of the camera controls are seen in the viewfinder. You can pull to expand the settings taskbars or push them out of sight. The left one holds five shortcuts to various settings, while the right one shows thumbnails of the five most recent photos. The camera controls on the Xperia pro are available on two taskbars on either side of the viewfinder. Our experience with these sort of sensors is that they indeed offer lowered noise levels but the improvement is nothing that major. Much like the Xperia ray, arc and arc S, the Xperia pro uses an backlit Exmor R sensor, which promises improved low-light performance.

The Xperia pro boasts an 8 megapixel camera, complete with a single LED light.
