There's a two-stage shutter key, complete with a textured surface and professional dampening. Sony has equipped the Xperia Pro-I with two physical camera controls. The Bionz X image signal processor, found in the Xperia 1 III and 5 III is in charge of handling the Xperia Pro-I video and photo processing. The Xperia Pro-I can lock up to a subject thanks to 315 phase-detect AF points across 90% of the frame. It features Sony's pro-grade Real-time Eye autofocus for both humans and animals, both in stills and video. It's a bit of a disappointment that Sony was unable to fit the 70mm-105mm variable-zoom periscope from the Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III in the Xperia Pro-I, though.īack to that main camera. The Xperia Pro-I has another pair of 12MP cameras - a 16mm f/2.2 ultrawide unit and a 50mm f/2.4 2x telephoto snapper. In front of that Exmor RS sensor sits a Zeiss-coated, stabilized 24mm lens with a variable aperture that goes from f/2.0 for the shallowest depth of field to f/4.0 when utmost sharpness is the goal. So despite not using the full 1.0-inch sensor area, the Xperia Pro-I does end up with a huge sensor only really bested by the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra and its 2.8µm binned pixels.

What that means is that the Xperia Pro-I uses a big chunk of that sensor (but not all of it) to produce 12MP images with a 2.4µm pixel pitch - that's some 20% larger than the iPhone 13 Pro Max' pixels and about the same size as those from the Galaxy S21 Ultra's main camera, after binning. That 1.0-inch type imager is taken straight off the company's very popular RX100 VII compact camera, but it has been 'optimized for a smartphone'. The Xperia Pro-I (where 'I' stands for 'Imaging') is the first phone outside Japan to deliver a 1.0-inch camera sensor with phase-detect autofocus. Out of the blue, Sony has a new Xperia Pro phone. Update: Check out our Sony Xperia Pro-I hands-on review.

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