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> Quite sad it defocused Look at it from the bright side. You will never forget to manually focus the next time a meteorite passes by. :)

by mikae1 4y ago

Aachen 4y ago
It's not that I forgot, actually. I considered using the "pro video" mode on my phone where I can manually set focus to infinity, but decided against it because - I wouldn't know what shutter time and ISO setting to use, or if it should need to be adjusted during the event when I want to be watching it - I was already fairly late to the party to start thinking about and configuring this stuff: I didn't know of the +/-1 second window at the time, only saw the 10-minute window (which was a good thing because an adjacent tweet in that thread said it wouldn't be visible even halfway here so I might not have gone out at all!) - The phone will try to use a broader light range ('HDR') in default mode, which is not something I understand (my confusion about that is a comment in itself), but not in pro mode. It doesn't work for extremes like capturing the sun as part of any picture, but in most cases it will work as though you took two pictures with slightly different shutter times and it'll scale values and stitch the pictures so that the dark areas are not pitch black and the bright areas are not full white. That seems like something I'd not want to disable, as it might make it capture more detail of the bright parts of the event. ... but as I write this, I realize that I can select 'auto' for shutter, ISO, white balance, etc. also in pro mode. Configuring the shutter is the main reason I use pro mode for, so it hadn't occurred to me that there is also a little 'auto' button for that in the corner! Not at the time, and not at the beginning of this comment either ^^'. I can set focus to infinity and only lose "HDR", not automatic selection of other settings. That might actually be worth it, don't know. But that's a good thing to be aware of, so thanks for making me realize this :D
- mikae1 4y ago
  > that's a good thing to be aware of, so thanks for making me realize this :D NP :)

> Quite sad it defocused Look at it from the bright side. You will never forget to manually focus the next time a meteorite passes by. :)

by mikae1 4y ago

> Quite sad it defocused Look at it from the bright side. You will never forget to manually focus the next time a meteorite passes by. :)

Aachen 4y ago

It's not that I forgot, actually. I considered using the "pro video" mode on my phone where I can manually set focus to infinity, but decided against it because - I wouldn't know what shutter time and ISO setting to use, or if it should need to be adjusted during the event when I want to be watching it - I was already fairly late to the party to start thinking about and configuring this stuff: I didn't know of the +/-1 second window at the time, only saw the 10-minute window (which was a good thing because an adjacent tweet in that thread said it wouldn't be visible even halfway here so I might not have gone out at all!) - The phone will try to use a broader light range ('HDR') in default mode, which is not something I understand (my confusion about that is a comment in itself), but not in pro mode. It doesn't work for extremes like capturing the sun as part of any picture, but in most cases it will work as though you took two pictures with slightly different shutter times and it'll scale values and stitch the pictures so that the dark areas are not pitch black and the bright areas are not full white. That seems like something I'd not want to disable, as it might make it capture more detail of the bright parts of the event. ... but as I write this, I realize that I can select 'auto' for shutter, ISO, white balance, etc. also in pro mode. Configuring the shutter is the main reason I use pro mode for, so it hadn't occurred to me that there is also a little 'auto' button for that in the corner! Not at the time, and not at the beginning of this comment either ^^'. I can set focus to infinity and only lose "HDR", not automatic selection of other settings. That might actually be worth it, don't know. But that's a good thing to be aware of, so thanks for making me realize this :D

mikae1 4y ago
> that's a good thing to be aware of, so thanks for making me realize this :D NP :)