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what's up guys Juan here from Android Authority and today we're going to be taking a second look at the sony xperia x performance more specifically the cameras on the X performance mainly because this is one of the stronger points on this phone and they do offer a lot in terms of image quality and features now just as a fun fact this entire segment that you're watching is being recorded on the front-facing camera of the sony xperia x performance so let us know what you think of the quality down below just to recap the front camera is a 13 megapixel shooter and the rear camera is a 23 megapixel camera neither have optical image stabilization but the rear camera does come with phase detection autofocus and a standard single LED flash now right off the bat one of the first things that I like about this camera is that I don't have to have a camera shortcut on my home screen and that's because the xperia x performance has a dedicated camera shutter button obviously this is something that has been a staple with Sony phones for a pretty long time but it's still nice to see Sony continuing to keep that physical camera shutter button on their phones you just hold it down and it will launch directly into the camera whether the phone is awake or asleep and it does it fairly quickly too if you're not too fond of using that dedicated camera key you can also use the power button to do pretty much the same thing the only thing it won't do is act as a shutter button but otherwise it'll still launch the camera from pretty much anywhere the camera app itself I would say is pretty easy to use and fairly straightforward for the most part you have these standard toggles to flip between the front and rear cameras on the upper left and one to control the LED flash on the bottom right and if you swipe up and down on the display this will cycle you through the various different camera modes like superior Auto manual video recording and the slew of Sony camera features which I will talk about in a second of course you have your standard on-screen camera shutter button and right below that is the camera settings which are more or less contextual based on what shooting mode you are in but you can do things like set a self timer change the resolution or toggle on HDR one thing I thought was really odd about HDR mode which I also mentioned in the full review is that the toggle is only available when shooting in manual to me this feels a little unintuitive simply because when most people shoot photos with their smartphones it's typically in Auto mode so to me it would have made more sense to have it available in the superior auto mode having it buried in the camera settings also makes it a little slow to get to so it would have been nice to have the toggle available directly on the cameras main interface if you aren't familiar with how superior auto works basically it can detect a variety of different sceneries and subjects such as macro shots date/time shots nighttime shots food documents etc and make adjustments within the camera automatically to give you the best looking shot possible or at least what the camera thinks is the best looking shot if you'd rather have more controls over your shots you can switch things over to manual but the manual mode isn't quite as good as some manual modes offered on other smartphones you can control white balance exposure ISO and select a specific shooting scenery but if you're shooting at any resolution higher than 8 megapixels you'll be limited to only white balance and exposure and even those controls have been kept pretty basic white balance for example gives you the standard cloudy tungsten and daylight options instead of granular controls with actual Kelvin numbers because this is a Sony phone the X performance comes jam-packed with additional camera features most of which you may already be familiar with if you've used a Sony Xperia phone before now I won't go through all of them in specific but there are a lot here such as a RF act sound photo style portrait creative effect sticker creator face in picture sweet panorama and time shift video that's only counting the ones that come pre-installed but if you want even more there are a slew of extras that are available for download there are a lot of fun to play around and experiment with and one of my personal favorites definitely has to be AR effect it doesn't have any real utility to be honest but you can do a lot of cool stuff with it like make dinosaurs crawl all over the place laser shoot from your eyes where mass and a bunch of other really cool effects that can make for some pretty creative looking photos and videos something to note about these features however is that you don't want to get too carried away with them because they will cause the phone to overheat and you'll be greeted with a message telling you the app is going to close moving on to the actual image quality I want to start with the front face camera at 13 megapixels you've got a lot of room a zoom and crop which isn't something you can usually say about most front-facing cameras the actual quality of the images have been surprisingly good and I think most people will be very pleased with using this camera for selfies they're well detailed colorful and vibrant and can pretty much trust it to take a great photo even if you have a hard time seeing the display which I ran into a few times when taking photos outdoors on a sunny day now if you're more of the vlogger type you can record some pretty decent looking video but despite being a 13 megapixel camera video recording options do cap out at 1080p and just like many of the other features that this camera offers video recording can also make this phone overheat so it's not exactly the most ideal phone for vlogging especially if you're trying to record some extremely long clips and it's actually overheated quite a few times already from me recording this the story is pretty much the same with the rear camera even though it's 23 megapixels video recording tops out at 1080p at 60 frames but I will say it's pretty good looking 1080p footage the camera focuses quickly handles exposure well and even though it doesn't have optical image stabilization the footage comes out relatively stable and looks even smoother if you're able to physically stabilize it with something like a car mount I've also been really pleased with the overall picture quality of the rear camera the pictures are packed full with detail especially in well-lit areas or daytime shots and there's just the right amount of color and saturation to make the photos look pleasing to the eye again if you're in a zooming and cropping you certainly have a lot of freedom to do that with such high resolution photos in low-light the photos are perfectly usable but you can definitely notice some noise and softness around the edges it also has some troubles focusing in low-light and without optical image stabilization you'll need to keep the camera perfectly steady because even the slightest movement can result in a blurry shot overall though I do think the cameras on the X performance is one of the strongest points of this phone and even despite some of his issues with overheating when using the built-in features or recording video it's a very enjoyable and fun camera to use and is pretty reliable in most situations but that is going to do it guys hopefully you all enjoyed this camera feature focus on the Xperia X performance let us know down in the comments below what you guys think of the cameras on the X performance and give this video a thumbs up if you did enjoy it subscribe to the channel if you haven't already that link will be down below and check us out on social media Instagram snapchat Twitter Google+ all that good stuff will be linked down below and follow me on Twitter as well and then check out the website and rathore calm because we are your source for all things Android