Sony today launched a brand new smartphone that has the world’s largest camera sensor ever placed in a smartphone. It’s the successor to the Xperia Pro that was launched earlier this yr and was a phone that the corporate created for video professionals. Now Sony is back with its second professional-grade smartphone designed with photography enthusiasts in mind. Dubbed the Xperia Pro I, this smartphone packs some ridiculous photography hardware, including an enormous 1-inch sensor borrowed straight from the corporate’s RX100 VII point-and-shoot camera. 
There’s one problem with this phone, which I’ll write about in a moment, but technically speaking, the Xperia Pro holds the joint record for the biggest camera sensor in a phone. Panasonic and Sharp have already released a 1-inch camera phone.
Xperia Pro-I can be the world’s first smartphone that may record videos in 4K resolution at 120 fps and retain all 120 frames. While other smartphones can record 4K video, they often compress frames right into a smaller file, which suggests you will not have as much control in post-production. 
The phone’s 24mm primary lens has a dual aperture of f2 and f4, which means that you can change depth of field more quickly for an “authentic bokeh effect” relatively than the software-generated digital bokeh effect that other phones produce. Should you remember, Samsung first did this with the Galaxy S9+, but for some reason they stopped using it of their recent flagships.
Now we return to the 1″ sensor. Regardless that the phone has a big 1-inch camera sensor, Sony doesn’t use the complete size of the sensor. It is because the lens Sony uses is unable to display a picture circle large enough to cover your complete area of the 1-inch sensor. Which means the Xperia Pro-I only uses a part of the sensor, meaning it outputs a 12-megapixel image on this device has a complete of 20 megapixels.
So which means that the actual usable sensor size drops to 1/1.33 inches, which is identical size because the Galaxy S21 Ultra. I actually don’t understand why Sony didn’t increase the scale of the lens to accommodate your complete sensor. Yes, it may need looked slightly weird, but the top result would have been price it.
Speaking of the top result, the larger sensor has definitely helped Sony take higher photos with the phone. Which means it’s the perfect Xperia camera phone yet, but as I’ve said previously, hardware is simply half the battle. Computational photography plays an enormous role in smartphone cameras, and based on the extensive research I’ve done on this phone, it’s clear that Sony is lacking on this area in comparison with Samsung and Apple.
Nevertheless, should you are an expert and wish to have full control over the camera, you may actually take higher photos with the Xperia Pro I than with the iPhone 13 Pro Max. To do that, you want to use a tripod, a protracted exposure and all these camera tricks. But should you’re a median consumer who just points at an object and takes photos, then I do not think this phone is for you because, like I said, Sony’s computational photography is not on par with other big players like Google, Samsung, and yet Apple.
Either way, the second aspect of the phone is virtually similar to the Xperia 1 III released a couple of months ago, Snapdragon 888, 4K 120Hz display, headphone jack, and so forth. Sony plans to sell the phone for a staggering price of $1,800, which is ridiculously high for what it offers.
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