Sony camera needs some knowledge to use. If you have steady hand, with the manual mode, it can even beat Pixel XL.

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_xzs-review-1600p9.php

The potential is there, but Auto mode doesn't bring it out. Auto mode tends to have high shutter speed to reduce your handshake, by sacrificing image quality. You want blurry photo or high noise? I would rather have high noise, which can be cleaned up later, if wanted. When pixel peep, the image isn't sharp, but if you perform downsampling to identical pixel count with other phones, you will see the detail is sharper.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Apr 14 2017, 10:57 AM

Admittedly, the corner sharpness issue does exist, but since it is wider than other phones, personally find it acceptable, given the sensor size, the focal length, aperture and no camera bulge. The focal length & distortion is not suitable for casual shoots, works well landscape. Generally the camera is too specific for it's use + demanding on the user ability. The "artifacts" can be removed with mild denoise in post processing, but I prefer to have that to keep the details. For a casual user who posts on social platform, the compression itself already kill the information of the picture, let alone artifacts.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Apr 14 2017, 03:13 PM