WEBVTT 00:00:00.179 --> 00:00:07.040 today is going to be a really fun phone video for me because 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:09.840 I'm considering switching to this phone 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:17.100 but we have to find out how good it is in front of me today I have the Xperia 5 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:19.440 4 the naming convention is confusing at 00:00:17.100 --> 00:00:23.100 best we have the Xperia Pro I which we've done a video on the most recent 00:00:21.060 --> 00:00:26.699 Xperia one four which is coming out soon actually shipping along around the same 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:32.880 time as this phone in September and then now the Xperia 5 4. Sony please change 00:00:30.119 --> 00:00:40.739 this naming scheme it's not great but the phone is potentially great uh in the 00:00:36.239 --> 00:00:42.899 box we have just the phone and some very 00:00:40.739 --> 00:00:48.899 eco-friendly packaging this is paper there is no charger or cable so they're 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:56.520 taking the Apple route now here's the phone you might think this looks pretty 00:00:51.780 --> 00:00:58.320 similar to the one four and it does that 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:02.760 is a very good thing there are a couple key differences so on the back here we 00:01:00.539 --> 00:01:06.360 have this like soft touch Metal finish which I actually love on Sony phones it 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:09.900 doesn't really attract fingerprints that much it will if your note if you've got 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:13.680 like super sweaty hands or whatever and you're holding your phone but like it 00:01:11.580 --> 00:01:17.820 really is one of the best finishes on a phone in my opinion because I hate you 00:01:15.720 --> 00:01:22.380 know like I have a OnePlus 8 which is pretty old at this point but look at 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:28.080 this thing it is a mirror on the rest of the back are three 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:29.759 cameras are 16 mil 24 mil and 60 mil now 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:33.360 if you watch the 1-4 video or you know anything about that other predecessor 00:01:31.320 --> 00:01:39.780 phone we're actually missing the telephoto 85 to 120 mil lens that they 00:01:37.860 --> 00:01:44.220 had was actually an optical zoom really cool technology there's also no time of 00:01:41.939 --> 00:01:49.020 flight sensor but again this is the more affordable version of a similar phone on 00:01:46.860 --> 00:01:54.360 the writeathon we have a power button shutter button which actually this time 00:01:50.759 --> 00:01:56.340 around isn't knurled or marked or 00:01:54.360 --> 00:02:00.299 textured in any way it's still there which is nice so when you turn the phone 00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:03.899 on yeah you long press for your camera app 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:08.520 and it's just open and then you have a shutter button in relatively the same 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:12.360 position as a camera when you hold it like this I think the fingerprint sensor 00:02:10.920 --> 00:02:16.620 is built into the power button and then we have a volume rocker on the right and 00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:19.739 then on the left of the phone we have nothing which is not a bad thing I 00:02:18.780 --> 00:02:26.819 actually don't mind everything being on one side this phone and this is probably one of 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:28.140 my favorite things of Xperia phones has 00:02:26.819 --> 00:02:33.720 a headphone jack 2022 most smartphones don't have 00:02:31.379 --> 00:02:36.420 headphone Jacks you might not care on top of using headphones you can actually 00:02:34.860 --> 00:02:40.500 use a mic you have a mic input and that is very 00:02:38.819 --> 00:02:45.300 important because high quality audio especially if you're shooting on just 00:02:42.660 --> 00:02:52.860 your phone very necessary on the front we have a 25 20 by 1080p full HD display 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:56.099 it is OLED which is very nice and 120 00:02:52.860 --> 00:02:57.420 hertz the 120 hertz is actually off by 00:02:56.099 --> 00:03:01.379 default which I assume is just a battery saving 00:02:59.879 --> 00:03:05.940 measure but I'm going to turn it on so that we get the full experience 00:03:03.959 --> 00:03:09.360 speakers are front firing and they've actually apparently changed the housing 00:03:07.980 --> 00:03:13.019 on the speaker so that there's less vibration in the phone which in theory 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:16.440 should make them sound better on top of that we have a new 12 megapixel selfie 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:21.000 camera on this phone over its predecessor the 5.3 this is also one of 00:03:19.260 --> 00:03:24.060 the first phones along with the one for they tease this in the one for but this 00:03:22.739 --> 00:03:28.080 is the first time I'll try this in person they have this music Pro app 00:03:25.739 --> 00:03:33.480 which is just supposed to be able to allow you to do voice recording it's an 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:37.379 app that you can literally record an instrument on if you really wanted to 00:03:34.980 --> 00:03:42.060 and then actually you can send it off to Sony to their servers and it will remove 00:03:39.900 --> 00:03:47.760 background noise for you you can also edit it on the phone which is kind of 00:03:43.860 --> 00:03:49.739 cool okay this phone is also ip68 65 so 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:56.700 you can drop it in a puddle and not cry and on the bottom of the phone we have 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:59.400 your typical type c and a tool-less Sim 00:03:56.700 --> 00:04:04.620 and micro SD expansion thank you Sony for still doing this because again a lot 00:04:02.459 --> 00:04:10.319 of phones you get these days do do not have Micro SD expansion obviously it's 00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:12.120 going to be slower than the memory built 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:17.040 into the phone which is I think this model is 128 gigs final couple specs on 00:04:14.939 --> 00:04:20.160 this phone it has the Snapdragon 8 gen 1 and it also has 8 gigs of RAM built in 00:04:18.900 --> 00:04:23.820 the other new feature on this phone is actually has Wireless and reverse 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:27.900 wireless charging which I'd love to see because I haven't personally used a 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:32.400 wireless charging phone and on top of wireless charging this phone just like 00:04:29.460 --> 00:04:36.120 the one four has 5000 milliamp hour battery which is pretty respectable 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:40.500 before we get to the cameras I'm going to tell you about today's sponsor 00:04:37.979 --> 00:04:43.380 epidemic sound thanks to epidemic sound for sponsoring today's video epidemic 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:49.440 sound provides high 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--> 00:05:29.220 the videography Pro app is just kind of a slightly nicer UI to toggle things 00:05:27.539 --> 00:05:32.960 like your Zoom you've got your manual autofocus it's laid out very similarly 00:05:31.320 --> 00:05:38.100 to an alpha camera ISO is right here like I really like 00:05:35.400 --> 00:05:42.660 this UI Photo Pro similar you got a couple modes the basic 00:05:40.500 --> 00:05:46.680 is pretty much like your standard smartphone camera app the 16 millimeter 00:05:44.940 --> 00:05:51.600 and the 24 millimeter cameras on this phone are the same as the one four the 00:05:49.380 --> 00:05:56.820 main difference is the 60 ml because this is a fixed 60 mil versus the 85 to 00:05:54.780 --> 00:06:01.199 120 mil you got your Venice color different Luts warm cold strong all that 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:06.479 kind of stuff that's awesome similar layout to the video Pro up but with a 00:06:04.620 --> 00:06:10.320 couple extra things like the codec is here in display you have audio levels 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:18.360 it's a little bit more professional it's got shutter angle that kind of thing frame rate is here oh also each camera 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:22.680 on this phone just like the one for has 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:24.539 120 FPS 4K shooting which is very nice 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:30.240 this is what the selfie camera looks like this is also what the mic sounds 00:06:26.940 --> 00:06:32.460 like so uh I'm gonna just keep talking 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:36.539 and what you guys can tell me in the comments what you think of the mic I'll 00:06:33.900 --> 00:06:41.880 listen to this later on the laptop but selfie camera in HDR and this is what 00:06:39.660 --> 00:06:46.979 the mic sounds like let's test how this looks so it's assuming I'm in a backlit 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:51.900 portrait this is kind of optimal lighting but 00:06:49.080 --> 00:06:55.979 honestly my impression of this on the phone display anyway is it looks a 00:06:54.360 --> 00:07:01.020 little bit on the bright side the way that the camera thought to meter the 00:06:58.139 --> 00:07:07.740 shot also let me just check if there's any skin softening on oh 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:11.400 please Sony I understand but please 00:07:07.740 --> 00:07:14.639 don't have the soft skin effect on by 00:07:11.400 --> 00:07:16.800 default let's do that again without the 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:20.520 skin softening feature well you can see texture in my skin 00:07:18.780 --> 00:07:26.220 versus less if you looked at the other photo 00:07:22.740 --> 00:07:29.580 there is I auto focus on every single 00:07:26.220 --> 00:07:31.800 one of these cameras which is again an 00:07:29.580 --> 00:07:37.380 excellent thing looking at it I really like the display it feels Snappy as I 00:07:35.340 --> 00:07:41.280 would expect a 120hz display and I actually agree with this resolution more 00:07:39.180 --> 00:07:46.919 than the 4K OLED that was in the 1-4 because the pixel density you're not 00:07:44.099 --> 00:07:51.720 really going to notice 4K versus 1080p on a display this well and if you are 00:07:48.780 --> 00:07:56.180 the one person who does well good for you why don't we actually try listening 00:07:53.759 --> 00:08:00.240 to the speakers questions 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:08.220 oh that's so weird so there's this feature when I press the volume rocker 00:08:04.500 --> 00:08:10.560 of dynamic YouTube vibration and so it's 00:08:08.220 --> 00:08:16.440 like vibrating the phone along with the song I mean on its own without comparing 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:20.660 it side by side to another device this sounds pretty good to me 00:08:17.880 --> 00:08:25.680 most phones these days have much tinier mids and aren't really great on the low 00:08:24.060 --> 00:08:29.220 end I mean again this is just a phone speaker that is front firing which is 00:08:27.300 --> 00:08:32.459 nice the last thing I want to test is going over some of the photos we 00:08:31.259 --> 00:08:37.800 actually shot on the weekend because I have been using this phone for about three days and we're gonna do some tests 00:08:36.060 --> 00:08:41.940 live so we're gonna go outside with Adam and take a couple photos and video first 00:08:39.899 --> 00:08:45.240 thing I want to test is the 60mm lens on this phone because it is different than 00:08:43.680 --> 00:08:49.680 the other two cameras which are the same as the one on the one four this will 00:08:47.220 --> 00:08:55.140 also test the image stabilization and how good it is as we walk backwards so 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:57.300 Adam's here we're gonna just walk around 00:08:55.140 --> 00:09:00.600 here in a circle and then we're going to come back and I'm gonna follow him the 00:08:58.620 --> 00:09:03.200 entire or he's going to follow me I miss those instructions 00:09:04.860 --> 00:09:11.100 I'm walking here 00:09:08.100 --> 00:09:13.019 thanks a lot and one 00:09:11.100 --> 00:09:18.060 two so the main thing I want to test here is mainly the 60 mil just because 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:21.540 we've seen the performance of the 16 and the 24 mil 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:27.600 both of them are good but I'll I will do a couple shots with both as well 00:09:23.880 --> 00:09:29.399 nice the last test I want to do is how 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:33.959 the selfie camera handles a backlit situation so one thing I don't like 00:09:31.920 --> 00:09:41.640 about the video Pro app in this instance I'm using the selfie camera but the UI 00:09:37.740 --> 00:09:42.899 is still in the horizontal setting so 00:09:41.640 --> 00:09:47.700 this is what the selfie camera looks like in 4k 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:51.240 backlit situation it's also shooting in HDR 00:09:48.779 --> 00:09:54.540 so it does seem like I can't do any manual control in the selfie camera at 00:09:52.800 --> 00:09:58.920 least not in the video Pro app which is a bit unfortunate because I really like 00:09:56.820 --> 00:10:03.660 a lot of things about this app I should just be able to go into this and change 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:06.720 the settings the last thing I want to test we have some background noise right 00:10:05.339 --> 00:10:12.080 now there's a train that way there's some people doing Garden work that way I'm going to record a voiceover on this 00:10:10.019 --> 00:10:16.620 phone and then we'll send it off to Sony and see how this process is okay we're 00:10:15.420 --> 00:10:21.420 back inside um I actually took this phone on a 00:10:18.839 --> 00:10:25.260 weekend trip to Seattle so we're going to take a look at some of the photos 00:10:22.860 --> 00:10:29.519 from that trip also we're going to look at some of the photos we just took of 00:10:26.940 --> 00:10:33.779 Adam outside as well as the video now one interesting thing I'll note before I 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:38.899 even get through any of this really is the dngs on this phone don't actually 00:10:37.740 --> 00:10:44.519 perform amazingly so this is one of the jpegs on 00:10:41.940 --> 00:10:50.220 the 60 mil that I got camera performance pretty good sharpness is decent in 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:55.620 comparison to the raw dng of the same photo yeah so you'll see in the dng 00:10:52.640 --> 00:11:01.980 quite a bit noisier you can obviously edit this so I can take down the 00:10:58.680 --> 00:11:04.140 exposure I can take down the highlights 00:11:01.980 --> 00:11:11.040 um I don't believe it's clipping as badly the auto focus on this phone is 00:11:08.300 --> 00:11:15.360 excellent this photo of these birds I was just walking down the sidewalk not 00:11:13.079 --> 00:11:19.320 really slowing down to take this photo I snapped it really quick because these 00:11:16.620 --> 00:11:23.940 birds flew by and Bam there's this there was this giant Norwegian 00:11:21.420 --> 00:11:27.600 cruise ship I was really pushing the ultrawide to see if I could fit the 00:11:25.560 --> 00:11:30.839 entire thing in this ship is massive like if you can see this tiny little 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:34.560 boat here and then you look at this thing it's like the size of a building I 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:39.300 believe this is on the telephoto and you can actually like see individual 00:11:37.380 --> 00:11:44.519 people obviously we can't see their faces but you can make out people and 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:48.480 that's pretty awesome here's another wide shot from a different perspective 00:11:46.079 --> 00:11:52.560 again a little bit earlier in the day so you can see the sun's kind of on the 00:11:49.980 --> 00:11:56.160 right shining this way dynamic range held everything really well we even have 00:11:54.000 --> 00:12:01.860 the shadows in this tree on the left perfectly balanced I just I like using 00:11:59.339 --> 00:12:05.579 this phone as a camera I think I was never really unhappy with the 00:12:04.140 --> 00:12:09.899 performance of this one especially in a daylight setting when you're outside if 00:12:07.620 --> 00:12:16.920 you're using it in that situation a lot of the time then it does pretty well 00:12:12.779 --> 00:12:19.740 here's a couple photos of my son on the 00:12:16.920 --> 00:12:26.100 inside of our hotel room now the struggle here was I believe he was 00:12:22.920 --> 00:12:28.620 moving a lot and even the autofocus 00:12:26.100 --> 00:12:32.040 could not always keep up with him at a close distance though I did nail a 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:36.060 couple like here's one that was in focus and perfectly fine still a one over one 00:12:33.959 --> 00:12:40.079 hundred here's the selfie that I took just earlier it actually doesn't look 00:12:37.740 --> 00:12:44.700 Overexposed at all on the computer it's on the higher end here's the photo of 00:12:42.899 --> 00:12:49.079 Belle and Mark and it's a little bit on the noisy side because it's ISO 800 but 00:12:46.740 --> 00:12:53.700 if you actually punch in Bella is perfectly in focus and he was a tiny 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:59.639 head in this photo but the focus nailed him even though he's in the darker part 00:12:55.440 --> 00:13:01.800 of the image the HDR video 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:06.240 of the selfie camera again also it didn't turn out as dark as it looked on 00:13:03.959 --> 00:13:10.980 the phone because obviously the full sun was on that display so it was kind of 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:16.320 hard to tell there is a little bit of what feels like Shadow clipping 00:13:15.060 --> 00:13:22.680 um because it's really trying to balance both the sky and me but it is 00:13:19.860 --> 00:13:28.920 completely usable so this new selfie camera is solid so here's the telephoto 00:13:25.560 --> 00:13:31.680 video the stabilization guys excellent 00:13:28.920 --> 00:13:35.459 and it managed to keep Adam like it looks like I'm not just walking like it 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:39.959 looks like it's almost on a gimbal or something Auto 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:44.519 exposure is doing a pretty good job here it's not the highest quality video 00:13:42.660 --> 00:13:50.339 not the sharpest I've seen I feel like the telephoto in the 1-4 was quite a bit 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:56.279 better but obviously that's what you're paying for Also let's have a listen to 00:13:52.680 --> 00:13:58.560 the music PRO voice over both the 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:06.240 unedited process voiceover and here is the Sony edited process voiceover okay 00:14:01.260 --> 00:14:10.320 so this is a test of the Sony Xperia 5 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:12.660 4's mic using the music Pro app to 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:17.519 record a voiceover I've got some background noise from a person doing 00:14:14.760 --> 00:14:21.660 some yard work behind Mark and then behind me 00:14:19.380 --> 00:14:26.100 there's going to be a train and I think I actually hear a plane so there's a lot 00:14:23.700 --> 00:14:28.800 of background noise here to deal with all right it's been a couple of days 00:14:27.540 --> 00:14:35.820 because I actually had a couple issues setting up the account for the music Pro app but you guys just heard both the 00:14:32.040 --> 00:14:37.800 original and the processed vo and I just 00:14:35.820 --> 00:14:42.480 listened to them myself I mean I didn't know what I was expecting but I think 00:14:40.260 --> 00:14:46.800 Sony did what they set out to where they made the voice in the voice over sound a 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.980 little bit more separated from the background noise the yard worker you 00:14:48.300 --> 00:14:53.399 could hear a little bit less but things like wind noise and you can kind of hear 00:14:52.019 --> 00:15:00.060 a little bit of compression throughout the recording so obviously still not an 00:14:57.180 --> 00:15:05.100 ideal place or setting to record a voiceover and that's to be expected if 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:08.040 you start with a bad recording no level of post processing is really going to 00:15:06.660 --> 00:15:12.660 fix those problems especially not one that's AI based to be fair to Sony 00:15:10.860 --> 00:15:16.380 though I do want to actually do one more recording right here right now to see 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:21.360 what it sounds like kind of in a studio environment more like maybe this is 00:15:19.019 --> 00:15:25.139 similar to a hotel room if you were to record your voiceover which is probably 00:15:23.220 --> 00:15:30.120 more likely what people will do if they're even going to use this feature 00:15:26.760 --> 00:15:32.579 so this is a test of the Xperia 54's mic 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:36.720 indoors select the settings that you want I'm 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:40.019 going to just denoise let's see what D Reverb does 00:15:38.100 --> 00:15:43.800 do some mic simulation and Studio simulation let's do all of them so 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:49.920 here's the original so this is the test of the Xperia 54's 00:15:46.560 --> 00:15:52.459 mic indoors in a studio setting so this 00:15:49.920 --> 00:15:57.660 is the test of the Xperia 54's mic indoors in a studio setting second time 00:15:55.560 --> 00:16:02.579 around I'm actually pretty impressed I think Sony did exactly what they set out 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:07.380 to with this AI based program the tuned version of this vo does sound a decent 00:16:05.100 --> 00:16:12.899 amount better and it kind of eliminates that echoiness of this being such a 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:15.360 large room it's not perfect but I'd say 00:16:12.899 --> 00:16:20.459 to my ears it's pretty good this phone checks so many boxes especially in terms 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:24.899 of the specs expandable storage all that kind of stuff headphone jack it is 00:16:22.260 --> 00:16:29.160 definitely squarely aimed at creators so I am probably fitting within the niche 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:33.540 of a phone like this but I really like what Sony's been doing with their Xperia 00:16:30.779 --> 00:16:38.759 line and I do really hope that they're successful because there are very few 00:16:36.540 --> 00:16:46.079 other smartphone makers really kind of packing all of these features into one 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:48.000 device so yes 9.99 us is expensive and 00:16:46.079 --> 00:16:51.660 this is not a review it is only a first impressions but 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:55.440 this phone is awesome could it be better yes but 00:16:53.940 --> 00:16:59.339 think they're going in the right direction so I hope for Sony's success 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:03.899 on this one anyways thank you guys for watching if you want to see more on the 00:17:01.800 --> 00:17:08.939 Xperia lineup maybe you can watch the 1-4 video If you haven't it's a slightly 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:13.500 bulkier better version of this phone but also more expensive and I hope you have 00:17:11.040 --> 00:17:17.839 a great day take care I'm looking at Andy He is wanting me to wrap this up