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iPhone 15 Pro Max Milky Way with 15 Pro Max
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Yes when you try the 5x lens in the dark, the native iOS photos app will indeed switch to 1x and crop. Anyone who wishes to use the 5x lens in dark conditions could try a third party photo app such as Halide. With such an app, you can make the iPhone actually use any lens you select and it has a full manual mode so you can select iso and shutter speed.
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…..And don’t forget about the app Even Longer”. It will also allow long exposures for all cameras on the iPhone and when used in raw, frame averaging mode, the images are so clean!!! For example: a 30” exposure to blur water. This app is a tripod only app though. Works great for star trails!!!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/even-longer/id1546911907
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I took these tonight. We had some Aurora Borealis too. 
iPhone 15Pro Max.
ProRaw Max.
Straight from the phone.
Only slightly cropped.
Umeå, Sweden
(Had to use ”Most compatible” while uploading because this site doesn’t allow raw…)
iPhone 15Pro Max.
ProRaw Max.
Straight from the phone.
Only slightly cropped.
Umeå, Sweden
(Had to use ”Most compatible” while uploading because this site doesn’t allow raw…)
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I took these tonight. We had some Aurora Borealis too.
iPhone 15Pro Max.
ProRaw Max.
Straight from the phone.
Only slightly cropped.
Umeå, Sweden
(Had to use ”Most compatible” while uploading because this site doesn’t allow raw…)
Wow, I’m moving in with you soon, my friend ☺️
If you look like Fabio, let’s gooooooo
Well, sadly I do not, but I can wear a wig, and my great grandparents were Swedish 🙃 my great grandmother spoke fluent Swedish until she was in her 90’s! I believe they moved to the United States when they were in their early 20’s.
Not only do you have some nice dark skies there, you’ve also got the Aurora, I’d have to drive about a thousand miles north to see that!
For right out of the camera, these are great! I’d love to see the aurora. I think the 15 pro max has the best camera yet!!!I took these tonight. We had some Aurora Borealis too.
iPhone 15Pro Max.
ProRaw Max.
Straight from the phone.
Only slightly cropped.
Umeå, Sweden
(Had to use ”Most compatible” while uploading because this site doesn’t allow raw…)
I’m in southeast Texas so I’d have to do some traveling to see it. One day hopefully.
Yeah there was a whole bunch of Swedes that migrated to the US around 1870-1900. 1910 there were 665 000 Sweden born Swedes in the US along with around 700 000 second generation Swedes. Sweden had 5.5 million citizens at this time so a lot of us ran away. Agriculture crisis was the main cause.
True, but there are tricks if you don't have a tripod such as setting it facedown on a flat surface with part of the phone hanging over the edge so you can carefully touch the capture button on screen. Works in wide open areas like next to a lake.
Look at the differences between the 14 Pro Max and the 15 Pro Max, same Milky Way, same night. The 14 pro max used ISO 12,500 whereas the 15 Pro max used 3200 and there’s more detail in the Milky Way from the 15 pro max…wow!
I live in Sweden as well but need to drive 620 miles to get to Umeå. The best place for aurora is Abisko which is yet another 440 miles north of Umeå
, but then you are as far north as you can get in Alaska That's crazy north lol. I'm from bavaria and want to visit Sweden/Finnland one day.I live in Sweden as well but need to drive 620 miles to get to Umeå. The best place for aurora is Abisko which is yet another 440 miles north of Umeå
Had my first chance to get aurora photos this evening. Boy, am I impressed! This is straight out of the phone. No edits or processing whatsoever.
So I tried this with my iPhone 14 pro and got some nice shots for a first attempt (Thanks OP) To which an andoid user said "ItS AlL Ai" I assume because they got caught with their AI remastered moon shots. My question to anyone who might know is how much AI does go into shots like this? Just curious.
Well none that I know of, & there better not be any AI included in my ProRAW files!!!. The 14pro in night mode of the Milky Way or other areas of the sky are strait out of the camera images. Of course I always shoot raw, so I have to edit my photos in Lightroom. HEIF or JPEG images of the Milky Way will look more soft or mushy compared to ProRAW due to the noise reduction applied and the highly compressed files. ProRAW always gives much cleaner results. The iPhone 15 pro & pro max do a much better job on the Milky Way than the 14 pro. I was very impressed. But no… no AI in the photos.
Some AI goes has to go into it because the Moon is always in motion and the Earth is rotating. Unless the phone is in a carrier that’s tracking the sky, there’s going to be some smearing. But, the images iPhones get of the moon are not “sharper than physics would allow,” as might be seen on some android phones.
Everyone in my group of friends took their best pictures of the moon one night. One with a Samsung showed a perfectly exposed photo of the moon against a pitch black sky. Not bad. Another had a moon that was blurrier, but there was much more atmosphere, with the landscape, clouds streaking the sky, altogether more pleasing.
I didn't take a pic of the moon though it was just stars and galaxy, and yes there was a tiny bit of "streaking" as the stars moved slightly in the 30 seconds which you can notice if you zoom in on my pics.
I ran mine through Lightroom too. Here are my favorites. I managed to get Andromeda!
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Yeah I see it! Cool. However the sky isn’t supposed to be blue like that. That can be removed using the color sliders. Were these HEIF or ProRAW? I wish adobe would create an optics preset to remove the vignette from the iPhone camera lens just as they do with DSLR lenses.