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Switched from a phone camera to a used DSLR for aurora shots and the detail difference was insane
I spent 6 months trying to get decent northern lights photos with my iPhone 13 near Fairbanks and got nothing but blurry green smudges, then I borrowed a friend's old Canon 6D from 2012 and the first shot showed stars and curtains so sharp I almost cried, anyone else find a huge gap between phone and real camera for night sky pictures?
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phoenix_martin401d ago
That bit about "blurry green smudges" hit me right in the feels... I went through the same thing last winter with my Pixel 6 and felt so cheated when the results looked like bad watercolors. Then I got a cheap used Nikon D750 from a pawn shop and the first real aurora shot showed individual stars and the green layers so crisp I actually teared up a little. It's wild how phone sensors just can't handle the low light and movement of the northern lights, even with all that computational stuff... once you see the real deal from a bigger sensor you can't unsee it.
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kai_chen21d ago
yeah @phoenix_martin40 i used to think my iphone was enough but now i get it, big sensor changes everything.
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jessem591d ago
Wait you got a D750 from a pawn shop? How much did that set you back?
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