Google pixel

[bish]

Hi all,

Does anybody have a google pixel phone? My samsung might need replacing and I wonder if its worth getting as I have seen some really nice milky way photos with them.

Thanks

[blameTECHIE]

I love my google pixel 5 - may not have the best lens/sensor on the market but the software makes up for it (as pixel phones usually do).  Saving in RAW+JPG makes things a bit more useful as well.

Not sure if it's a feature on other android phones, but placing it into camera night mode, on a tripod and then angling up to the sky automatically engages astrophotography mode - autostacks about four minutes of night mode shots.

Have attached a some random images that I took of one evening when setting up, they're not great (wasn't really going for anything) and unfortunately there's a bit of light pollution but the stars are nice and sharp and the on-phone stacking seems to do really well (this was taken just outside Kidderminster looking East(ish) so roughly over your neck of the woods @bish)

And it's water/dust proof, so I've been happy to leave it outdoors overnight with a USB powerpack when I started playing with timelapse mode. 

[bish]

44 minutes ago, blameTECHIE said:

I love my google pixel 5 - may not have the best lens/sensor on the market but the software makes up for it (as pixel phones usually do).  Saving in RAW+JPG makes things a bit more useful as well.

Not sure if it's a feature on other android phones, but placing it into camera night mode, on a tripod and then angling up to the sky automatically engages astrophotography mode - autostacks about four minutes of night mode shots.

Have attached a some random images that I took of one evening when setting up, they're not great (wasn't really going for anything) and unfortunately there's a bit of light pollution but the stars are nice and sharp and the on-phone stacking seems to do really well (this was taken just outside Kidderminster looking East(ish) so roughly over your neck of the woods @bish)

And it's water/dust proof, so I've been happy to leave it outdoors overnight with a USB powerpack when I started playing with timelapse mode. 

That's great. Thanks for your reply.  They do look really good. 

[scotty1]

I took this photo in my garden on Friday using my pixel 4a.

After taking a photo in astrophotography mode, the phone makes a short animation of the stacked photos. There's a satellite flare.  

In astrophotography mode the camera takes about four minutes to take one photo.  It's about bortle 5-6 here in town.

A bit of editing in phone for this pic. 

I have noticed that the centre of the photos from my pixel tend to be brighter than the edges. These are jpgs though.

Edited August 8, 2021 by scotty1

[AR86]

Just thought I'd pitch in here too, this image was on a Pixel 4 taken last night of the Pleiades (cropped in from the full image). Taken handheld (through a skylight window - using the frame for stability) for the full 4 minutes in AP mode.