The realme was super impressive when I got it. But, In comparison the realme isn’t as clear. Glad I got the pixel.
The Realme photo looks fake. You just don’t get that much light at night from a 30 second shot without a lot of post processing. You’d probably get blurry stars too, depending on your location.
It’s great if you want to take photos of your friends at night, but if you’re trying to get genuine photos of the stars, I wouldn’t trust it.
Yeah, I agree. Way to much light. Also, good luck getting your mates to sit for 30 seconds.
And, yes, the realme photo was way more blurry. I literally took both these photos around 5 mins of each other about an hour after sundown
Edit: Might have been closer to 2 hours after sundown.
The RealMe has so much AI, you could get sued by Nintendo when they find a Pikachu in the clouds 🤣.
I think any and all comparisons of modern smartphones are worthless beyond personal preference. All of these phones do massive amounts of filtering and post processing which makes any direct technical comparison a waste of time. With equal exposure you could get either of these results with either phone by taking the raw image and doing the right editing.
Comparisons are helpful to find which matches my preferences, and it’s helpful to know which phone will process the images in a way that I can get images I like without doing the processing myself.
Raw image taking has been around for a long time now, even on smartphones. I’m not sure how processed regular raw shots are on iPhones, but ProRAW pictures are a combination of raw and regular processed pictures according to Apple
A mate had an iPhone while I was doing this, they asked me to try the same thing with theirs. Gotta say with both my phones I just set them in a steady spot and selected night shot. Didn’t have that option on the iPhone that I could see, but that might be me not knowing how to use it.
My bad, they automatically set the exposure. At the same position it did about 4 seconds exposure and looked a bit darker than the pixel. Will post if they figure out how to send the photo to me.
The maximum amount of light that can get in your camera is determined by the aperture size, meaning how large the hole in front of the sensor can open, also commonly called f-stop. Smaller f-stop means more light (as it’s a ratio)
The Realme’s regular wide-angle back camera has a maximum aperture of f/1.8, while Pixel has f/1.85. Meaning technically, they’re more or less equivalent, you shouldn’t get that much more light in so little time. This could be the Realme camera software making really shit post-processing…
How can you get 4 minutes of exposure without everything becoming blurred and the stars just lines?
The astrophotography mode on Pixels (the only way to get 4 min exposure in the default camera app) works by taking quite a few photos with shorter exposures and then matching them up in post processing.
You even get a short animation at the end where every captured photo gets processed using the rest, so you can see stars moving around during the capture.
Wait there’s an astral photography mode on the pixels? I’ve gotten some half decent star photos with just the night shot mode and 2 second exposure, but I’ll have to look for it next time I’m outside at night.
It’s somewhat hidden if you don’t know where to look. You have to switch to Night sight mode, turn on astrophotography in the settings, and then set the phone down on a stable surface. After a few seconds without any movement, the capture button will change from moon to three stars and pressing it will start the 4 minute capture.
The sky isn’t blue at night.
30 second shot at night would give you a nice picture of some stars (assuming you had that neat star-tracker motorised gadget
