I agree. Not to forget that we did not get many chances. A couple of shots and with no preview and hope for the best. It was an expensive and time consuming.
Agree not mad at Apple because they didn’t promise it but the rumors were way off
Oh my, based on some previous posters you're totally wrong: It is definitely NOT a compelling upgrade from 11 Pro (a guess, or 'Max'). LOL.
Same, because I'd like to do this. However, I took photos of the comet in 2019 in Night Mode, and a few others of stars. Not ideal, but you certainly get more stars than are apparent with naked eye in an urban area
My gut tells me that some of those “rumors” were planted by Apple…
A tiny camera with a tiny lens and sensor is never going to collect enough light in a reasonable amount of time to be useful for astrophotography. Physics just won’t allow it. If you compare a typical smartphone sensor coupled to a 12mm f/1.8 (full frame equivalent lens, actually it is only about 1.9mm focal length due to tiny sized camera) to an actual full frame camera 12mm f/1.8 lens, the full frame lens lets in 39x more light. Imagine looking through a pinhole in a piece of cardboard and comparing that to looking through 1 inch hole in another piece of cardboard. You will see a lot more light looking through the much larger hole. Same thing with cameras. The bigger the hole (aperture opening) the more light that will make it to the sensor. These tiny smartphone lenses just don’t let in enough light. The phone can compensate a little bit through artificially brightening the image through in-camera processing, but not that much, and what they do via this processing lowers the over all image quality. It sounds good in their BS marketing blurbs, but in reality smartphone cameras are terrible in low light situations. If they ever bump the sensor size up to a 1” sensor, then they will be much better, but then the lenses will need to be a lot bigger. So I doubt we will ever see smartphone cameras that do well in low light.
I felt it was implied but not stated which made me wonder if the Apple legal team, fearing a mass class action law suit, told them to drop that claim.
Using a regular tripod as a static mount for the iPhone 13 won’t really work for taking night sky photos because you would have to leave the shutter open so long that the stars would become very elongated and look like dashed lines rather than points of light. In theory though, you could mount an iPhone 13 to an equatorial tracking mount that will track the stars through the sky and get some decent photos. Unfortunately tracking mounts cost a few hundred dollars and up, plus they require a good bit of knowledge to properly align and use. And even then, the photos would still be from tiny sensors and way less quality and more noisy than from a camera with an APS-C sensor are full frame sensor.
There’s a picture on Apple’s site that shows the stars at night in the photo. You might be right. They talked about how great it is in the dark, but only hinted at star photos. I also think it may be a software thing that isn’t ready and may come later this year or next.
13 mini 256/512GB … pay day is this week.1TBWhat are you ordering?
