Best Samsung/Android Settings to capture the Aurora Borealis

[juliussneezer]

iOk, so my son and I bounce outside to get pictures of the Northern Lights and on my Z Fold5 I look up at the sky and see and capture this on the default camera settings...



He stands next to me, laughs, aims his iPhone at the sky and on the default settings sees and captures this...



Considering my phone is supposedly state of the art I was shocked.

I can only put it down to my default settings being unsuited to shot I was trying to take.

So, does anybody have any ideas for the optimum settings I should be using to at least get photos that are the equal of those taken on a 3 year old iPhone?

[jamesbilluk]

juliussneezer said:

iOk, so my son and I bounce outside to get pictures of the Northern Lights and on my Z Fold5 I look up at the sky and see and capture this on the default camera settings...



He stands next to me, laughs, aims his iPhone at the sky and on the default settings sees and captures this...



Considering my phone is supposedly state of the art I was shocked.

I can only put it down to my default settings being unsuited to shot I was trying to take.

So, does anybody have any ideas for the optimum settings I should be using to at least get photos that are the equal of those taken on a 3 year old iPhone?

With your camera settings, there should be an option to go to 'More' There should be some different modes in there, 'Night' should be there, or theres 'Pro' mode where you can set a longer exposure.

The good thing with the fold, you can use 'flex mode' it can be its own tripod. https://9to5google.com/2023/05/01/galaxy-z-fold-4-...

Edited by jamesbilluk on Saturday 11th May 17:10

Edited by jamesbilluk on Saturday 11th May 17:14