iPhone 16 Pro Max Camera problems: Blue smudges, lines, etc. [MERGED]

[E2EK1EL]

I can see some smudges/banding on these.

I have an iPhone 16 Pro and do some astrophotography. I have the banding issue, although initially (when I got the phone) it was fine. Maybe I’ll post an example later.

He doesn’t have the blue banding issue, what you are seeing is the gas effects of the galactic core during the Milky Way season and traces of the Nothern Lights at low levels sitting in the opposite direct at a weak level. If he had the blue banding issue, his Oct shots would have the blue banding appearing in the exact same spot or spots in his images regardless which direction or what month he shot them at. He is shooting in a bortel class 1 area and facing.a bortel class 1 in all his shots. Wherever his Milky Way spot is located, it’s the best of the best and also he’s using a sky tracker.



When I’ve discovered I had the blue banding issue on 3 different IP16P, I was shooting in various bortel class 2 areas and facing a bortel class 2-4 areas, the blue banding patterns I had was the long blue banding for the first and 2nd and the 3rd iPhone 16 Pros was also the zebra pattern, but only in the bottom left corner. No matter what I did, facing the darkest spot I could find or facing light to medium light population area, my blue banding pattern would never change from shot 1 to shot 300.

 

[PeteS1963]

He doesn’t have the blue banding issue, what you are seeing is the gas effects of the galactic core during the Milky Way season and traces of the Nothern Lights at low levels sitting in the opposite direct at a weak level. If he had the blue banding issue, his Oct shots would have the blue banding appearing in the exact same spot or spots in his images regardless which direction or what month he shot them at. He is shooting in a bortel class 1 area and facing.a bortel class 1 in all his shots. Wherever his Milky Way spot is located, it’s the best of the best and also he’s using a sky tracker.



When I’ve discovered I had the blue banding issue on 3 different IP16P, I was shooting in various bortel class 2 areas and facing a bortel class 2-4 areas, the blue banding patterns I had was the zebra for the first and 2nd and the 3rd iPhone 16 Pros was also the zebra pattern, but only in the bottom left corner. No matter what I did, facing the darkest spot I could find or facing light to medium light population area, my blue banding pattern would never change from shot 1 to shot 300.

I can see it in shots way outside of the core and on one of his pictures that isn’t of the galactic core. Maybe it is traces of the Northern Lights but not convinced.

This is one of mine from a Bortle 1 site. No tracker.

 

[E2EK1EL]

I can see it in shots way outside of the core and on one of his pictures that isn’t of the galactic core. Maybe it is traces of the Northern Lights but not convinced.

This is one of mine from a Bortle 1 site. No tracker.

It happens all the time when I shoot the Northern Lights, when the levels are weak and I'm just waiting for the next set of CMEs to arrive, I shoot the milky way out of boredom and on those nights blue + green fogs patches are floating around.

 

[PeteS1963]

It happens all the time when I shoot the Northern Lights, when the levels are weak and I'm just waiting for the next set of CMEs to arrive, I shoot the milky way out of boredom and on those nights blue + green fogs patches are floating around.

I am familiar with the Northern Lights too.