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?
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.
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.
Doesn’t Samsung just overlay moon.jpg when it detects you’re framing the moon irl?
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…
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
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.
yupppp. “AI”
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.”
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.
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.
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”
Close your eyes
Everyone showing off their iPhone photos, this was an iPhone 15 pro, what am I doing wrong 😭
I took this on the iPhone 13 Pro. Cropped and then edited in Lightroom mobile
Shot on iPhone 6s
Lmao
Smartphones and even digital photography did not yet exist during the Moon Landing.
Shit really?
You can try going into video, zooming all the way in, start recording and tap and slide down the exposure and use that button in the bottom right to take individual pictures
There are some good videos on this with just the standard camera app. And in handy during a lunar eclipse
Use a DSLR
Check this tutorial
You don’t really need to go to video mode for that
I can’t agree more. IPhone hates moon. I tried so many times on 15 pro max. Lack of focus and exposure control on camera app probably cause it. Also, you may notice it keeps on changing lenses while you try to focus on the moon.
