I just recently passed from android to Iphone 15 Pro and while it’s effectively better under all aspects, it really leaves much to be desired on the moon pictures, with results being vastly inferior to my old Honor 20 Pro from 2018. All of this seems to be due to the apparent lack of focus and exposure control. Now, I understand that Apple phones are not for “Pro” photography but… can’t the AI in the phone really see that that’s the moon and it should focus at infinity? Also, what’s with the huge light flares that I always see when imaging bright lights?
Doesn’t Samsung just overlay moon.jpg when it detects you’re framing the moon irl?
I think it is actually a machine learning neural net but it’s job is basically “does that look like the moon? Then put the moon stuff on it.”
yupppp. “AI”
No, it uses ai enchancing just as every other smartphone does.
There are literally videos of people fooling the algorithm by putting a white circle on a dark background and it suddenly turned it into a moon…
All phones use AI to sharpen images, but Samsung uses AI to quite literally slap on a fake image of the moon when it detects a moon, so this is very, very different.
That’s Samsung bs speak for the over-glorified, high tech way that it overlays moon.jpg into images that it detects contain the moon.
So is every picture that you take a jpg overlay because of ai? The amount of stupidity is astonishing. And if you think that apple doesnt do the same you are just naive and stupid
My best shot EVER on my 14pro max. Literally had to stand there for 20 mins and eventually I got a decent pic! I don’t think it gets any better than this lmao most of the time when I try to photograph the moon it’s just a white blob.
I took this using LightRoom. It allows you to choose the ISO and shutter speed. This photo was with 1/800s shutter speed, 100 ISO, and f/2.8 aperture.
Saw this advice once from u/seoulitude and kept it as a screenshot. Haven’t had a chance to try it yet:
“set the video to 4k60fps > click the telephoto lens and zoom in > tap your subject and lock the focus > lower the exposure / drag the sun dial down > take a video > take the photo”
Use a camera, not your phone. Probably not the answer you were looking for, but it’s the truth. You need a physically much larger sensor to get high resolution at long distances.
I have a 10 inch dobsonian telescope actually, but I just was curious about how to get a decent snap with the camera too whenever I see something interesting on the go (e.g. the moon pops out of a forest or something)
Bro doesn’t want to be a professional moon photographer.
Screenshot from a video I took. iPhone 14 Pro Max
How would the moon feel embarrassed?
Honestly I’ll stick to my samsung galaxy with the whole ass camera built into it
automatic overlay of moon.jpg featureHighly advanced, Super Retina, KrystalKlear Technology, 5 lens, whole ass camera.
Check this tutorial
You don’t really need to go to video mode for that
I’m going to be the jerk and just say “use a real camera”.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the iPhone, and even as a photographer I use it more than anything else. But moon pictures require a zoom lens. Otherwise you’re just not going to get it right. 200mm focal length plus, and the iPhone 15 pro max’s 5x zoom is only 120mm.
That, and a larger sensor for better low light performance.
Gotta enable pro raw in the settings
There is exposure control when you tap the screen to focus and then swipe up or down to set the exposure
Not the moon but took this at night with night mode turned all the way up
