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?
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.
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…
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.
I took this on the iPhone 13 Pro. Cropped and then edited in Lightroom mobile
Tripod, and some of the setting changes mentioned by others
Shot on iPhone 6s
Smartphones and even digital photography did not yet exist during the Moon Landing.
Shit really?
Lmao
Put your pants back on
The future of the bird inside this egg is so bright that it started glowing
Everyone showing off their iPhone photos, this was an iPhone 15 pro, what am I doing wrong 😭
Tap and hold you’ll then be able to set your exposure. You should get a slider shoe up in the middle of the screen.
I’m not an iPhone user at all, but I’ve heard around that just try to experiment with exposure and brightness and what not. I think the 15 Pros camera is a step up but I’m not sure about astrophotography. Just try to experiment with a couple settings, don’t worry if the moon looks dark when you are taking the photo as you can edit it later! Hope this helped any 🌚
Fun fact: most modern day android phones aren’t actually taking a picture of the moon either. The software approximates the picture and fills in the gaps using stock images.
iPhone’s, and probably some other Android phones too don’t do that. Just look how bad quality most of the pictures on this thread are. If they were computer generated, they wouldn’t look that noisy. I know Samsung does that thing you’re talking about because there’s a setting.
I took this way back when from my iPhone OG 👌🏻
There’s an app, that is pretty good called “Moontake”
There are some good videos on this with just the standard camera app. And in handy during a lunar eclipse
