Picture of the moon taken with lumia 930

[Geo Hutchings]

Using ProShot, I had the "34MP" output resolution (16:9 ratio) with 10.0x live digital zoom. Here's the tricky part - 34MP is the output of the sensor itself without digital zooming, where any form of digital zooming would be taking a smaller (and lower resolution) portion out of that 34MP at 16:9 aspect ratio. However, ProShot still gave me a "34MP" image even if it was digitally zoomed in at 10.0x magnification. I've talked to the developer about this a few months back and he said that the app intentionally saves a larger version of the cropped area of the sensor as if it was using the entire sensor was being used. So, if my digital zooming was only using (for example) a 5-MP section of the sensor, ProShot will still save the resulting 5-MP photo as a 34-MP photo, similar to simply increasing the resolution of an image in PhotoShop without really increasing the quality of the photo. His justification was something like, "Users were complaining about the output resolution not being 'full resolution' when zoomed in". My response was that that was ignorance on the part of the "photographer".

So to answer your question, not sure if ProShot can output "DNG" types of images, but the output was a JPG file (a pseudo 34MP image).

I will try using a tripod, possibly a motorized one designed for astronomy, and then force the OIS off (possible with Lumia Camera by setting the focus manually) - I need the OIS off because the lens gets slightly left behind by the rotation of the earth at that levels of magnification with the telescopic attachment causing a slight blur in long exposure images... or I could simply use shorter exposure times.:wink:

P.S.
Installed then uninstalled 1Shot before - don't remember why. I'll probably try it again and see how it compares against ProShot.

Update:
Just tried 1Shot now. First impressions: Aside from it's fast (under 1.5 seconds, which is similar to Camera360 Sight) start up time, there seems to be nothing special about it. Focusing time and quality are the same with Lumia Camera, Microsoft Camera, etc. White balance is the same. Detail recovery at high levels of magnification seems to be the same, though this needs further testing (just like my previous tests elsewhere). The zoom control, however, needs a lot of improvement - since when did moving my fingers away from each other mean zooming out-then-in?

Ahh i see that's a clever idea with proshot did not know that, and the reason for fast shutter speed is because moon is bright, like real bright so much so i had turn my exposure down, if i had the raw image, deleted since then but it shows you the image with 0 exposure and it looks like the sun, but like magic turn down exposure in the raw editor and the moon comes back with all its detail, the image i got there is about 3mp or less, its very low but the took about 40 shots to get it right, changing the sliders to get it right, most were like yours at first, i just happen to get it right and i was using a tripod so no shake, its all about how much light you let in to much its to bright, to little its bury

My reasons for liking 1shot is because of continous focusing great for birds ect, tap to capture, you can change it from pinch to zoom or drag, go in to the settings

 

[gpobernardo]

Ahh i see that's a clever idea with proshot did not know that, and the reason for fast shutter speed is because moon is bright, like real bright so much so i had turn my exposure down, if i had the raw image, deleted since then but it shows you the image with 0 exposure and it looks like the sun, but like magic turn down exposure in the raw editor and the moon comes back with all its detail, the image i got there is about 3mp or less, its very low but the took about 40 shots to get it right, changing the sliders to get it right, most were like yours at first, i just happen to get it right and i was using a tripod so no shake, its all about how much light you let in to much its to bright, to little its bury

My reasons for liking 1shot is because of continous focusing great for birds ect, tap to capture, you can change it from pinch to zoom or drag, go in to the settings

Yes, I had to adjust the brightness (exposure value) to get the shots of the moon I posted. At first the moon looked like a bright white ball reflecting second-hand sunlight. I'll be ordering a telephoto attachment (the one that grips onto the sides of the phone) and see how that performs - the L1020 "lossless" zoom is great for terrestrial subjects but not so for those beyond.:wink:

 

[Harshv61]

Took this with my 1020 using pureview zoom.