What if the Sony Xperia 1 III went to school and got a degree in filmmaking?
No need to wonder - it would become an imaging professional. It would
become the Xperia Pro-I.
Sony has a habit of making phones no one expects, and no one has
thought to ask for. That's how the Xperia Pro came to be.
The Xperia 1 II's ultra-expensive alter ego was meant to be used
as an external monitor for Sony Alpha cameras... and it also happened
to be a phone with 5G connectivity.
The Xperia Pro-I, on the other hand, is not an accessory, it's the main act -
the phone is the camera. Inside the Pro-I, Sony fitted a 20MP 1.0" Type sensor, and
it's the first one this big with phase-detect autofocus on a phone, they
point out to get that Sharp
out of the conversation. What they don't explicitly mention is that
the Pro-I isn't using all of it - just 12MP, but we'll elaborate
on that later on. The point is - great main camera chops.
The other cameras aren't all that special but complete
a capable tri-set. There's an autofocusing ultrawide that's at the
reasonable end of the 'ultrawide' spectrum instead of the extreme.
As for zoom, gone is the dual focal length periscope of the
Xperia 1 III, replaced on the Pro-I with a more modest 2x-only unit.
