Sony says it designed this smartphone’s video UI around the same menus and functions it deploys in its pro camera bodies, so it will feel familiar to Sony shooters in particular. Videography Pro mode allows you to control every aspect of exposure and focusing, even allowing you to make cinematic manual focus pulls.

When it’s time to record video, the Sony Xperia Pro-I offers full manual controls, optical image stabilization, subject tracking and eye autofocus and a physical aperture that switches the lens from f2 to f4. The Xperia Pro-I has a 3.5mm headphone jack and expandable memory via microSDXC support up to 1TB two things no other major flagship offers right now.

It also has a dedicated button for opening the camera app and another right beside it for opening one of its three video recording modes.Īnd there's more. It has a boxy form factor, with a 6.5-inch 21:9 4K HDR OLED display, one of the sharpest available on any smartphone right now. In a world where phones are so samey, the Sony Xperia Pro-I goes its own way.

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