Is Apple iPhone 14 Pro finally good enough for astrophotography? I think it is!

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Жыл бұрын

The main camera on the new iPhone 14 Pro with 65% bigger sensor and a 24mm lens is finally suitable for wide field milky way photography. There are still some caveats and limitations but it can be done and it's possible to get some quite decent results!
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@yuu22061 Жыл бұрын

I think with the new 48mp sensor on the 14 pro they are still testing and optimising things before they give us the control we want on it. Same with the dynamic island, very clear that the 14 pro was rolled out without much dev done before release unfortunately and we are paying for that now

@ParagOak Жыл бұрын

This how reviews should be. You have covered all the points with different apps. Thanks for sharing.

@sayedabdulmalequeahmed4189 Жыл бұрын

Why people aren't making a astrophotography video on iphone 14 pro your the second KZfaqr who made a legit video on it really appreciate Love from india

@emeryeyes Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. I just got the 14 pro max and want to start astrophotography. This was very helpful because I just discovered today there is no manual override on night time mode for longer exposure. The most they let you manually chose is 3 sec. It went up to 10 sec on auto. I will be trying the 30 sec with a tripod tonight.

@siuleung42 Жыл бұрын

You do not apply the crop factor to the aperture when comparing light gathering ability. It's to compare relative depth of field only. The lens is an f/1.78, but it would give you the depth of field of a 24mm f/6.3 lens on a full frame. The f number is an attribute of the lens itself and is a ratio between the focal length and the entrance pupil. The size of the sensor behind it is irrelevant. This applies when converting relative focal lengths between sensors of any size.

@donny6109 Жыл бұрын

could u please try compare it to the pixel 6 pro or even pixel 7 pro when it next comes out, that thing is a beast at astro photography

@gregorbajc7292 9 ай бұрын

Hi there. Will you also be testing 15pro max? Cheers!

@Goofyahhmemes4real Жыл бұрын

Is there an app on iPhone where you can stack the photos?

@timpuckett110 Жыл бұрын

I was in Astronomy many years, I am retired now, You have some really nice shots on astrobin...

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@StarScaperPhoto Жыл бұрын

Interesting and thorough test! Makes me curious to go a night out with my phone only, just out of curiosity what that could produce :-).

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

Yeah exactly. I was also curious to see. I am also curious to test it under darker skies

@MarkoPejovic Жыл бұрын

If you could you should test Huawei p30 pro. Its 3-4 years old but still it is better than 90% new phones in things like this. It has real pro mode and amazing RYYB sensor which collects ton of light. I used it for a year or so and was able to take some great pictures from tripod. With tracker that should be much better.

@Bopperkid Жыл бұрын

14:09 what was the software you stacked the photos in?

@elmachodeyewtewb Жыл бұрын

How can I take good photographs and videos of the upcoming solar eclipses with the iPhone?

@firevr Жыл бұрын

I’m confused I have the same phone and can adjust exposure up to a max of 30 seconds?

@alwishy2696 Жыл бұрын

Ive had good success with my 12 pro max shooting at 30secs on a tripod obviously But doing an Andromeda challenge as soon as we get clear Skys On a move shoot move equatorial mount and then stitch them together with the starry sky stacked app. My D750 died so I thought sod it lets have a go...... Ha Ha

@kotovsky3097 Жыл бұрын

In the Even Longer app, you took jpeg-compressed pictures. In the pro version, you can take pictures in raw, the pictures are combined into one raw file, either in the light trail mode or in the star trail mode. I use it on my iPhone XR and got good shots of the night sky. I create a series of images and stack them in Sequator. Where can I share my pictures?)

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

Send them via email, I’m curious. You can find my email in the description of the video

@kotovsky3097 Жыл бұрын

@@kamilkp Thanks)

@Q_QQ_Q Жыл бұрын

Share on Instagram for everyone to see

@brtrettel Жыл бұрын

You could make a vídeo about “nightotgraphy” of Samsung galaxy s23 😍

@adrianmarqfnf5104 Жыл бұрын

how do you get the camera to not get blurry with the night sky, mine always gets blurry and i can’t do anything

@randywilson6366 11 ай бұрын

I'm trying to figure out how 30 1-second exposures averaged out is different from one 30-second exposure. Isn't that just an average, too? And why can't those other apps "stack" the 30 1-second exposures like Pixinsight does? It seems to me that it should be possible to put a camera (iPhone or DSLR) on a tripod, take a bunch of pictures over the course of several minutes, and then stack the resulting frames such that the stars that have dipped below the horizon are ignored; the ones that were visible the whole time are "stacked" even as they move across the sky (thus reducing noise and sharpening the real stars); and then crop the top of the picture a bit so that the stars that weren't in the frame for the whole time are cropped out. Is that what some of these apps already do?

@Arda.D Жыл бұрын

Even with 13 pro max I got better milky way shots with 30seconds raw long exposure on default camera or even longer raw shots. If you like I can send you my captures

@anything7087 Жыл бұрын

Where to stuck photos?

@dhsuvajra8088 Жыл бұрын

What was the name of the tracker you recommended? I couldn’t hear clearly enough what it was!

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

„Move shoot move”

@gordork Жыл бұрын

The mini tracker you mentioned, what’s it called?

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

Move Shoot Move

@firevr Жыл бұрын

The max shutter speed in one shot is 10 seconds. The 30 second option stitches three 10 second images together.

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@woody5109 Жыл бұрын

On a serious note, I’ve transferred a 5 minute sub to my iPad and it’s pretty amazing what you can do to it. The average person is generally blown away. Kind of cool, I’m sure a guy like you could take it to the next level, try it out.

@a-n-d-r-e-a-s Жыл бұрын

How many exposures would you recommend for stacking?

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

With a mirrorless full frame camera I usually shoot around 10, but with iphone I’d go for like 25 maybe

@BoldFollower Жыл бұрын

What star tracker were you mentioning?

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

Move Shoot Move

@rupianosk Жыл бұрын

Hey i don't really understand why you say you can not have longer exposure than 1 sec, while you actually can? Am i misunderstanding something?

@CyclingwithRuss Жыл бұрын

What app did you use to stack the photos ? was it Lightroom ? im going to Australia in a few days ad want to try getting some astro photography whilst im there

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

Probably PixInsight but I’d recommend Siril (it’s free)

@douglevin9557 Жыл бұрын

Thank you SO much. I was considering buying one of these and now know not to waste my money with only a 1 second exposure! I’m still getting a legit 10 second exposure with a Samsung S21, so I’ll stay with that.

@rupianosk Жыл бұрын

? I don't know where you are getting your info but with the iPhone 14 Pro you can just set 1 tot 10 sec exposure, or even 30 seconds at dark night. Camera also way better than samsung

@pokeNHearts Жыл бұрын

Guess imma wait for the iPhone 15 Ultra

@sumicmusic Жыл бұрын

while the iphone 14 doesnt seem to be giving good results, i got some great shots of the milky way in a bortle 5 with a huawei p30 pro.

@DIGITALMIND63 Жыл бұрын

I thought by using third party Apps I could use ISO 100 with longer shutter speeds and get clean images in low light. What I learned using my Iphone 14 Pro Max is that once I chose a shutter speed slower than 1/60 of a sec the ISO would increase to higher ISO's. The phone raises the ISO to SIMULATE longer shutter speeds since it does not have an actual shutter. At first I could not understand what was going on because I was using ISO 100 on the third party app. When I checked the photos metadata the ISO was much much higher. So in conclusion I would say it's not possible to get acceptable results with a smart phone when doing astro photography unless you stack images like you did.

@reahs4815 Жыл бұрын

I can get up to 60 seconds of exposure with any iso from 50-6400 on my phone so it is possible (In RAW format)

@Andratos95 Жыл бұрын

There's one thing that has always confused me about f numbers. Say that I have a small phone camera with f/2 and a diameter of the aperture of 10mm. So, that means that the focal length is 20mm. If I now take a 8" (200mm) telescope with a focal length of 800mm, that's f/4 focal ratio. Does this mean that it collects less light than the phone? Even if the aperture is much larger?

@alenk738 Жыл бұрын

Don’t be silly. Lenses with the same f-ratio will produce the same photon density on the sensor, meaning the same brightness. But that doesn’t mean they collect the same amount of light. Larger lenses always collect more light. It is simple physics. Anyone who believes otherwise should contact all the professional observatories and tell them they are wasting their time building telescopes with huge mirrors!

@Andratos95 Жыл бұрын

@@alenk738 Okay then that explains it! Although it was my understanding that the reason why observatories build telescopes with huge mirrors isn't to collect more light, but to achieve higher resolution due to the better diffraction limit

@alenk738 Жыл бұрын

For both reasons. But the atmosphere puts a limit on resolution, even with adaptive optics. There is a reason the HST can resolve so much with such a comparatively tiny mirror.

@amhorizontlinks3010 Жыл бұрын

The native camera-App is able to shoot 30s exposures. But I’m not sure if it does it by stacking 1s exposures. Hab you tested/researched this?

@OMaMaRMY Жыл бұрын

Ive heard it combines three different 10 second exposures

@ptwoods Жыл бұрын

As you said, better use pixel 6 pro for smartphone astrophotography

@chrisak49 Жыл бұрын

I have both Pixel 6 and 14 Pro. The iPhone 14 Pro actually picks up more stars and a clearer galactic core which is shocking because Pixel 6 takes 4 mins to shoot Astro shots while iPhone only did it in 30 seconds.

@mahyarde67 Жыл бұрын

Which app did you use to stack the photos?

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

PixInsight. But the free DSS or Siril would be just as good for this task

@mahyarde67 Жыл бұрын

@@kamilkp thanks man. Nice work!

@charmed13triq97 Жыл бұрын

Come back and make a MOON video and tell me how happy you are with the moon photos and the 14 pro max....... HORRRRRRRIIIIIBLEEEEEEE

@TheProject43 11 ай бұрын

What case do you have on your iphone on this film?

@kamilkp 11 ай бұрын

Standard leather case from Apple

@kamilkp 11 ай бұрын

Color ink

@Mistygio Жыл бұрын

Wait im confused. In Lightroom, were you able to adjust the edits that the iPhone already makes? Or were you able to apply a noise reduction reduction...? because I dont like the fact that iPhone applies noise reduction and theres no freaking way to turn it off. its the most annoying thing about iPhone and its the reason why I consider iPhone to be the worst camera ever put on a smartphone. But is there actually a way to undo it with Lightroom mobile?

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

In RAW images yes

@odebient Жыл бұрын

Sorry, stacking it where?? couldn't hear that very well.

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

In PixInsight

@nathanbarrett9209 Жыл бұрын

the 14 pro can do 30 second exposures in the regular photo app with nightmode as long as the phone stays perfectly still

@ILLiteSociety Жыл бұрын

Thanks for clearing that up. I was trying to figure it out, and holding in my hand I was getting 3-8 seconds tops lol. I got a tripod ready to go though, so I’m hype.

@SamuelPereira-ff5gq Жыл бұрын

The most I got was 10 seconds, Even though the iPhone was 30 seconds to take the photo

@are07s Жыл бұрын

Then it was not dark enough. I took 30 sec exposures with 12 Pro, 13 Pro, and now 14 Pro max

@nathanbarrett9209 Жыл бұрын

@@are07s if you look at the details of the photo it will still say it’s only a 10sec exposure

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

Correct

@stremsty Жыл бұрын

How is that good enough?.. 😅 have you seen s21-22 ultra's astrophotography results?

@GarryBurgess Жыл бұрын

If you have the camera on a tripod, in dark, it will give you 30 seconds exposure time. If you don't believe me, turn the camera face down and wait a bit for night mode, and your 30 second exposure show up.

@scotthunter4 Жыл бұрын

Don’t you need a star tracker for a half minute exposure? On my DSLR I would only shoot max 10 seconds otherwise you get star trails.

@kamilkp Жыл бұрын

Depends on the focal length but with a 24mm you do need it. Hence why I used one

@nathanbarrett9209 Жыл бұрын

@@scotthunter4 hes talking about the IPhone, they can do 30 sec exposures when still on a tripod

@tokurwaniezle Жыл бұрын

poland❤

@Barbaria_Sailing Жыл бұрын

Sorry but you are obviously confused about f-ratios. Don’t tell anyone that the iPhone (in theory) collects the same amount of light as a 100mm f-9 refractor.

@Monsterhumster Жыл бұрын

Indeed. F and T numbers are different, and though the iphone 14 pro has 6.3 ekvivalent lens in terms of bokeh, in terms of light collecting any 1.8 lens collect 1.8 amount of light - it doesnt matter how big the sensor is.

@Andratos95 Жыл бұрын

I have a honor 20 pro (a cheap phone from 2019) and it absolutely demolishes the results obtained with the iPhone 14 Pro, like it's not even close... I'm sure any current flagship Android phone will shame it even more

@woody5109 Жыл бұрын

So my IPhone 8 won’t cut it…😂😂

@diandrecarty4512 Жыл бұрын

Dwl bro😅😅😅😅

@FordSierraIS Жыл бұрын

using a phone for astro is pointless. a old cheap dslr will yield much better results

@reahs4815 Жыл бұрын

for me I'm getting better results with my phone than using my dad's old dslr

@DonJames_ Жыл бұрын

Yep its the ecosystem lol and apple knows they have all their customers locked in the loop so they can do whatever they want.

@cosmophile9 Жыл бұрын

I don't think that's astrophotography.

@jasonlee4267 Жыл бұрын

the iphone 14 pro is garbage at astro compared to the 13 pro max, not sure if this apple deliberately tweaking it somehow or its just accidentally been missed, there are a few videos from Shane Moyston i think his name is, covering it, he basically only shoots astro with phones to excellent results....until the 14 pro

@wyattparnell2412 Жыл бұрын

He had a recent video that somewhat fixes the issue. It’s a bug with the focus on the phone. I don’t believe it’s a hardware issue. Obviously it shouldn’t have the issue it does but it should be fixed with software.

@jasonlee4267 Жыл бұрын

@@wyattparnell2412 yea I saw both, and given his video, i'm not all convinced they did fix it, the iPhones 13 still looks amazing in comparison to even the fixed update, but yea, it is only an OTA update that can be fixed, there was an issue with the ISO being locked to 800 as well in night mode, not sure if that got sorted out yet...

@chrisak49 Жыл бұрын

Nah side by side the 14 Pro is getting more stars, more clear galactic core