Photographing Flowers With Xperia Z

When I bought the xperia z, one of its most attractive features was the camera. Although I had no idea how it would actually turn out to be. But being Sony, I knew it could not be too bad. 

So recently I took the phone to my garden and snapped a few flowers.

Note that the images are not original and are processed by Pixlr-express. I have always used photoshop with my camera and thus cannot ignore processing.

Here are a few things things I realized about photographing flowers:

1. The camera find it very hard to focus in macro. Now matter what you do, it keeps focusing at the wrong place. So, if you are photographing anything small with this phone, you have to be prepared to strain your hands and click several shots, till the camera gets it right.
2. The camera has no control what so ever on its ISO setting. Its random. You must manually set ISO to get things right. I dont know why this happens, but if you leave the ISO to auto, the photo can be so grainy as if it were rubbed with sand.
3. Once you have tackled the above two problems, the camera works awesome.
4. The strength of the xperia z camera(and the weakness of others) is against the light photography. Its not only the exposure by the way the light appears in the photos. You can almost 'see' the rays of light in all the photos shot against light, which give them an awesome feel.
5. I normally shoot at maximum resolution, the 9M resolution offers wider photographs.

So, basically the camera is good. But it lacks its own brain. You have to work with the settings to get result right.