How to make 8MP photos with Superior Auto in Xperia Z1?

[dantheman]

Hi all

I bought the Xperia Z1 mainly for the camera, but I am not satisfied with the results. In articles like the one linked here, it states that "Sony has wisely set the Z1 to take 8-megapixel oversampled photos by default".

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/30/4784014/sony-xperia-z1-review

Though,in superior auto my Z1 takes photos with 5248 x 3936 = 21 MP!  Could that be a reason for the poor image quality and how could I in that case change this setting without going to manual mode (there I already changed it).

Thanks in advance for your support!

Dan.

[BiswajitZ]

Its good if your z1 captures in 21mp resolution, people around here are complaining about superior auto for that 8mp resolution.

[dantheman]

Now I just upgraded to Android 4.4 and the Superior Auto works as it was intended, i.e. making 8 MP photos that are of a decent size (in terms of MB). Though, as you point out, the pictures also looses some of the details when you zoom in and it is difficult to say if the quality improved a lot otherwise.