Went out on a rare clear night to a wetlands near me to take some photos of the stars. As it was so dark, and the stars are so small, I had to rely on the focus peaking function of my camera to tell if the stars were in focus or not.
I’ve got home and started to process the photos, and I’ve found out that despite the camera telling me that they were in focus, they clearly weren’t.
Hey ho, what’s a wasted few hours in the freezing cold between friends…
TBH, that’s significantly better than I would have expected for photos of the stars taken on a phone.
FYI stars (and anything over a few hundred feet actually) is at an infinite distance as far as your phone’s optics are concerned. So it’s not a matter of focusing, it’s a matter of trying to resolve what are effectively pinpoints of light on a black background while in your hand, where the minutest movement will smear them across the sensor.
Photographing the stars is not trivial, even with a real camera and a tripod.
Thanks, but this was with a real camera on a tripod 🙈🤣
I’ve done astrophotography with this camera a few times, and used to use my DSLR. I find this camera a bit more difficult to use because it’s mirrorless, and the light from the screen gives me problems seeing the stars. I have astigmatism, so it takes me a while to go from bright to dark. Because of that, I use the focus guide to make sure that the stars are in focus. For some reason, this time it’s showed them as being in focus, but they’re clearly not.
I don’t know what changed this time, but it’s bloody annoying! >.<
Sorry, I don’t know what the hell was going on that my brain interpreted your post to say you were using a phone. Thanks for not being a dick in return, even though you would have been justified 😅
But op used the word camera 3 times and the word phone 0 times…