Comprehensive evaluation of Sony Xperia PRO-I: Xperia's most hardcore image flagship to date.

At the beginning of the year, Sony released Sony Xperia 1 III, which made me think that it should be the annual flagship of Sony Xperia 202 1, and rushed its first edition of the Bank of China without hesitation. However, I didn't expect that by the end of the year, Sony's new micro-single mobile phone XperiaPRO-I made another surprise appearance.

It must be said that from the recent cooperation with Meizu Flyme system to the introduction of XperiaPRO-I with more hard-core images, Sony really wants to make some innovations and changes in the smart phone market to attract more consumers. So what kind of surprise will this Sony XperiaPRO-I with a black card and an inch outsole give us? Let's take a look.

Appearance: Japanese design has a little tough temperament.

For me who have been using Sony Xperia 1 III for some time, the design language of XperiaPRO-I is actually very similar to Sony Xperia 1 III.

It is still a square body with a frosted feel, and the slender ratio of 2 1: 9 is also the DNA of Sony mobile phone design.

Of course, if you want to change it, this time Sony XperiaPRO-I uses vertical bars on the frame, which improves the friction when holding, and secondly, this texture is more tough and professional visually. Frosted glass and metal middle frame materials make this phone look very textured in your hand.

GIF diagram of black card RX0 appearance

Of course, readers who are familiar with Sony products will certainly not be unfamiliar with this design. This design first appeared on Sony's first generation black card RX0, and it is also a metal matte vertical stripe to improve the durability and grip of the camera body, which is exactly the same as the design language of Sony Xperia Pro-I.

The custom button and shutter button have also been redesigned this time. The custom button adopts a circular design, and the size of the shutter button can be said to have increased several times compared with Sony Xperia 1 III. The visible advantage is, of course, that the shutter button will be pressed more easily when taking pictures. Of course, it also retains the extremely advanced 3.5mm headphone jack, which is touching.

In terms of color matching, Sony XperiaPRO-I only represents professional matte black, which is quite beautiful. Of course, the overall texture is more professional. So when it comes to professionalism, let's talk about the biggest highlight of Sony XperiaPRO-I, the image.

Image system: a one-inch image raptor hidden under the mobile phone

Ok, the sensor based on Black Card 7 is a large-size 1 inch sensor developed and debugged for Xperia Pro-I. I believe this is undoubtedly a juice-like impact for users who are interested in mobile phone photography. Unexpectedly, the sensor on Black Card 7 was really transplanted to Sony's mobile phone, which is the biggest difference between XperiaPRO-I and Xperia 1 III.

Compared with the pixel spacing of 1.8μm of traditional sensors, the advantages of XperiaPRO-I's 1 inch sensor can be embodied in hardware. The pixel spacing of 2.4μm ensures the high sensitivity of the sensor, thus restoring more detailed textures. Larger photosensitive elements also make photos, especially at night, more pure, richer in details, less noise in the dark, and bring more natural optical blur effect. And more importantly, the main camera of XperiaPRO-I supports two variable apertures, F2.0 and F4.0, and it still has the blessing of Zeiss Optics.

For users who like to shoot portraits and landscapes with their mobile phones, these two apertures undoubtedly give them more room to play. And thanks to the blessing of 12 bitRAW, the photos of XperiaPRO-I have more space in the later period. The other two cameras are 16mm super wide-angle lens12million pixel and 50mm telephoto lens12million pixel.

Having said that, what about the actual photo proofs of this XperiaPRO-I? Of course, we also found a Sony Black Card 3 with a 1 inch photosensitive element to see what kind of proofs they took.

Xperia PRO-I daytime main photo proofs

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Ultra-wide angle proof

Macro proof

Black card 3 day proofs

Although one is a mobile phone and the other is a camera, I compared their samples because they are both 1 inch soles. In my opinion, the proofs taken by the two machines are beautiful, the colors are true, and the blur effect is natural. The blessing of 1 inch image sensor is really unusual.

After so many years, the photos taken by Sony mobile phone are really the style that a camera should have. Don't make too many changes, and present the scene as original as possible. Therefore, we can also see that the picture colors of XperiaPRO-I and Black Card 3 are relatively real, and thanks to the fact that the main camera of XperiaPRO-I has two variable apertures, F2.0 and F4.0, we can easily take photos with shallow depth of field when we see nearby objects in the proofs, and the blur of Jiao Wai is very beautiful and natural. However, if you shoot scenery, individuals will even suggest shooting with the aperture of F4.0, which will keep more details of the picture.

This shot is the main night shot of xperia pro-I. One of the advantages of larger photosensitive elements is that at night, larger photosensitive elements can make the night scene purer and less noisy. And the aperture of F2.0 can also increase the amount of light entering. So the hardware is in place, what is the actual night scene performance?

Xperia PRO-I Night Scene Master Sample

Xperia PRO-I Night Scene Master Sample

According to my brief evaluation, in terms of image quality, the night scene proofs of XperiaPRO-I are really clean, with almost no noise. From the proofs, we can see that the night scene of XperiaPRO-I can still display the correct color even in the scene with complex light sources, and there is no color cast, which is closer to what we really see. The interpretation in the sky is more pure black, and it is difficult to see the noise even if you zoom in. This is really powerful, and the advantage of large outsole and large aperture has been brought into play.

Camera performance: Xperia will always be fascinated.

When it comes to Sony mobile phone photography, especially flagship mobile phones, camera performance is always an impossible point to bypass. Follow focus continuous shooting, in particular, is basically the strongest ceiling in the industry. This excellent focusing performance system originated from Sony α9 has been learned on Xperia 1 III before.

Photographer high-speed continuous shooting GIF map

Master photographer's eye-controlled focusing GIF picture

With 3 15 autofocus points, it basically covers the entire viewfinder and has achieved abnormal performance since focusing. Basically, as long as XperiaPRO-I is in focus, the focus will be firmly locked. It also has human eye blessing and animal eye tracking blessing, which is a great weapon for users who like to capture animals and children every day. I also tested continuous shooting with xperia Pro-i.

GIF map of main photographer interface

It can be seen that even if I focus on a high-speed bus or battery car, XperiaPRO-I can still focus on the subject accurately, and this focusing system can be said to be very reliable. At the continuous shooting speed of 20 pictures per second, you can take pictures first and then choose pictures. Although this is a bit of a waste of memory, it is guaranteed that you will not miss the precious moments you want to keep.

Video Shooting: Besides movie master, there is also a video master this time?

If there is any surprise when you open XperiaPRO-I this time, it is that there is a strange video master in the interface. This is also a new built-in program for more and more users to shoot vlog with their mobile phones.

After use, the interface is more intuitive than that of movie master, and the operation logic is more friendly to ordinary users.

GIF diagram of video main operation interface

Although facing whiter users, the functions of video masters are still very rich. You can choose to adjust any parameters directly and automatically, or you can choose to adjust the ISO white balance of the shutter aperture at will to achieve the desired picture effect. In focusing and focusing, the video master also supports eye focusing and real-time focusing in video for the first time, which greatly improves the usability of the video master.

In addition, there is a manual focusing and focal length adjustment lever. The same video master also supports the recording of 4KHDR 120fps video specifications, which can fully meet the needs of ordinary users and even vlogger.

Sony official website Vlog Kit Demonstration Diagram

At the press conference, Sony also released a vlog suite specially designed for XperiaPRO-I, which combined with more convenient Vlog display and clearer radio reception to maximize the Vlog capability of Xperia Pro-I.. Belief is another weapon to record life with images.

Video sample GIF picture

Three applications, trinity

At this point, XperiaPRO-I has three master apps for image function, namely, master photographer, movie master and the newly added video master, which can fully cover the different needs of photographers.

System: Cycas blossomed and began to attach importance to localization.

Before the release of XperiaPRO-I, I believe that the biggest news about Xperia mobile phones is that Sony has reached a cooperation with Meizu Flyme system. Even I was shocked by this Sophie.

Xperia PRO-I comes pre-installed with Flyme OS application.

But for now, we see that the built-in App of XperiaPRO-I has only four pre-installed App:fly meos App Store, Weather, Email and Information.

Flyme OS app store

Flyme OS weather A pp

Of course, this is also because of the cooperation between Sony and FlymeOS, and I believe that the two will be more in-depth and multifaceted in the future. We can also see Sony's determination to localize and attach importance to domestic user groups. In the future, you can even imagine that domestic Xperia phones will run FlymeOS perfectly. But before that, let this bullet fly for a while.

Summary: Xperia with harder core and more grounded gas.

Unconsciously, it's the summary part again. It is never easy to write Sony's flagship mobile phone, because there are too many highlights, but the balance of space can only be elaborated by choosing the most important points I think.

In my opinion, more professional body design, more attractive screen specifications, richer video recording options and more local systems are the selling points of this phone, but the core highlight of this XperiaPRO-I is that on the basis of ensuring that the body is thin enough, the 1 inch image sensor is adopted, which makes the main camera closer to the card machine such as a black card in terms of photo quality, and further improves the upper limit of the smart phone in terms of hardware specifications. We can even expect that in the next two years or even 1 year, every flagship camera may actually use 1 inch sensor, and XperiaPRO-I is undoubtedly the first one.

We also expect Sony to continue to achieve technological breakthroughs and launch works that make the industry amazing, and the concept of "micro-single mobile phone" only belongs to Sony's name.