Comment by dylan604
4 days ago
let me help you, s/phone/camera/
you make it sound like it is something specific to phone cameras, when any digital camera has a chip much more sensitive than your eyes. add in the ability to do long exposure, and your camera will give you much more information to what's out there.
Yeah, phone/camera has become close to the same thing for many people I guess. I meant camera (of the modern digital sensor type).
I'm not aware of phone cameras being able to do long "open shutter" types of exposures, but maybe I'm mistaken. Wouldn't that need a tripod or some other sort of physical stabilization? All the aurora photos I saw a few weeks ago had been taken from a hand-held phone and were fairly sharp and clear. Is image stabilization so good that a modern camera can take a sharp, hand-held multi-second exposure?
my camera phone has been able to do longer exposures for quite some time now. some apps even have astro mode. my phone will do long exposure instead of using the flash, and expects the user to hold the camera steady (ha!) but i'm assuming uses a lot of stacking.
and yes, if you want good long exposure, you don't want to do it hand held. but the "AI" is doing a lot in the post processing to fool you into thinking hand held is an option