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The sensors are small but the software is good. Night photography is easy on a recent smartphone and you don’t even need a tripod.
by speedgoose 4y ago
The sensors are small but the software is good. Night photography is easy on a recent smartphone and you don’t even need a tripod.
- sudosysgen 4y agoI've tried it with an iPhone 13 and an older camera with significantly worse low light performance than any camera from the past 7 years, and even if I disable the built-in image stacking, the mirrorless camera with an f/1.4 lens is incomparably better. I could properly expose my backyard with nothing but light pollution handheld. Newer cameras can even film video with nothing but moonlight.
- speedgoose 4y agoWhich camera is it? My old X100T is a complete mess in extreme low light conditions and I don’t remember things to have improved much in the following years.
- sudosysgen 4y agoAn A7ii with a Sigma EF 85mm f/1.4 (incidentally the whole set up used is about half the price of an iPhone 14 Pro). The X100T is a great camera for the experience, but it kinda sucks for low-light. If you want good low-light performance, then image stabilization is a must and full-frame with a lens faster than F2 makes a huge difference too. In the end I can hand-hold comfortably at 1/4th of a second, and the camera itself takes in 4x more light, so low light performance is much better than on an X100T. I can upload the pictures I'm talking about later today, if you want.
- appletrotter 4y agoYeah as other commenters have pointed out, it’s night and day (no pun) between dark shots on DSLRs and phones.
- Kye 4y agoThe only catch is, at least on the iPhone 14 Pro, you can't do stuff like light trails with the included camera app. Its very smart, fancy processing carefully removes the trails as it combines exposures so you end up a very well-lit picture of traffic rather than pretty lines and no cars.