Foto of the Stars???

[GeorgeElaphe]

Hey guys,

there is something very spooky going on! Just for fun I tried to take a foto of the night sky with clearly visible stars with my XZ3. Out of my hand, just using the automatic. The results seemed to be outstanding, incredible! A deeply black sky with bright shining stars! But soon I noticed that on each foto the constellation was different, what was on the foto was not what my eyes had seen. So, how do these fotos arise??? Is there kind of a "night shoot star spangled sky" - fake-software, to make Sony-customers happy? I would appreciate any ideas to resolve this mystery! Regards - George

[Strampke]

Reflection of lights nearby in the lens?

[GeorgeElaphe]

Hi Stampke,

how nice to get a reply so soon! Thank you! No, no reflections!!! The pics look soooo authentic! I tried to attach examples, but the software seemed to fail. Do you see them? If not, I would like to send them by email, if you'd like. I promise, they would let your jaw fall down!

[Uliwooly]

@GeorgeElaphe 

upload the pictures to drive, or any other website and post the link here. Are you saying that you see more stars in the picture than you can with your naked eye? if so, then there's nothing wrong with your phone

[GeorgeElaphe]

How can I upload to "drive"? I am sitting in my garden, with only my phone 🙂 I am not talking about any kind of "night shoot mode". The pics can't be "real". As I said: They do not show what I see. In other words:Taking five shoots show five different star-constellations. And please: I am not a technical "amateur" ...

[GeorgeElaphe]

[Strampke]

@GeorgeElaphe 

So out of curiosity I made some pictures of night sky too.

Ever since I screwed up the low light performance of my Xperia Z2 Compact by unlocking it I have never even considered taking pictures of night sky.

I admit, the result is above expectation.

As @uliwooly said there are more stars visible on the picture than with the naked eye.

However my sky is not black but filled with purple/green from the software that has been fighting to get a reasonable result.

[GeorgeElaphe]

Ok, we're getting closer!!! Please, make five shots and consider, if everything is all right!

[Strampke]

Take five.

Right, the bright starts are equal, the plane is moving and the faint stars are sometimes there and sometimes not.

I guess it has something to do with the software translating a brighter spot into a star or correcting it into the background depending from the surroundings.

[GeorgeElaphe]

Good morning Strampke,

on my photos not even the bright stars are reliably at the same position. Although it seems as if I see them before the shot. But also that can't be the truth, because when I start aiming in the "pure" sky above me, and I swing over to the horizon, I still see only stars! So we can agree that "the software" does this. You say it kind of "translates". I say: I want perfect, exiting pictures, but they must be "elaborated" by good hardware, used in the right way. Ok, thank you very very much for your contribution, thanx also to uliwooly, but at this point Sony has to explain. I am very sure that the "normal" supporter won't have a satisfying answer. If I lived in Berlin I would visit the Sony-Flagship-Store in the Sony-Center. Finally: In today's world, we have really really enough real problems, and what a lucky guy am I to be able to discuss items like this! But maybe the benefit is that with this we keep our minds open, and we do not believe everything "the big boys" say... Best regards - Jörg