Macro mode - Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go

I have juts got my XS from amazon today !!.. ( no NFC tags ) ...
Took it out in the park , all good pics etc...but How do you take Macro Mode ?
My desire can do it ... with a 3rd party ... so how do you do it with the XS...
Love the phone sooo fast !!!!!!!!!!

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Mine took macro shots fine in Auto Scene mode.
Like this:
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Blared out by the flash though.
Vignette worked fine with the AF too.

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Cant do it !! with nothing on , it focuses, then blurs, so the picture is taken blurd, even though it saw it fine and focused ok.
Vignette ???.... mmmm do you dip the phone in that stuff?? LOL

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dgattenb said:
Cant do it !! with nothing on , it focuses, then blurs, so the picture is taken blurd, even though it saw it fine and focused ok.
Vignette ???.... mmmm do you dip the phone in that stuff?? LOL
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I have read somewhere there is no setting its just auto for macro, but having never tried it I can't confirm sorry
Xperia S white

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auto focus , just zooms in and out ... i have a 3rd party which will take macros.. of sorts... lets hope ICS fixes this !!

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I'd say the minimum focusing distance is around 5cm for me on the stock camera app, which seems pretty reasonable to me. Perhaps like seanicca said, maybe the phone just tries to AF regardless of distance?
I mean, not all cameras have a "macro mode" per say (ex. most DSLR class cameras don't), as all it really is just software that tells the lens to search for focus with a closer and more narrow range of distance. Its benefit was really just to make the AF faster. Maybe they just decided to do away with it as the phone can handle focusing on a wide distance range quick enough to make the shooting experience simpler?

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Here is a macro I took on auto settings. I think it turned out great.

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How do you do it ?
been trying loads of things wit the stock camera, nothing is working .. i just get the focus zooming in and out , tried touch focus ( with the 5 dots .. ) no good..

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My picture took in marco mode:
Just point the camera close to the toy, wait for focus and...
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There is a limit to how close you can go, if the focusing is unableto lock, you just need to back off until it locks. This is not your point and shoot compact which can take a picture as near as 20mm.

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Very strangely, I was playing around with the camera on the bus in the dark, and for a brief two seconds the camera displayed the macro flower in the top left in the stock camera app when it failed to lock onto anything (it was really dark and I disabled flash). so it appears that macro mode is automatic.
However, I've not seen the macro flower icon since in any other shooting opportunities, even when I'm shooting something close around 5cm distance.
Weird, but I'm not complaining since it works fine.
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