Milky Way Photography with S24 Ultra: Weird things are happening here...

“Once you are over the initial amazement that it can do it at all, you are forced to conclude that it doesn’t do it very well” applies to shooting astro with cell phones as much as cows running steeplechase races.

Glad to see a new S24 Ultra video. I haven't done any astro with my S24U yet, but yeah, sadly ExpertRAW does some weird extra processing, which it didn't do on the S23 Ultra. What I noticed from your screen recordings: you might want to try the 50MP mode and also use manual focus. If I recall correctly the sharpest results were somewhere between 0.8 and 0.9 on the focus scale. I just played around to find what gave me the sharpest results. Also, 20 seconds and 800 ISO gave me the best results. But that was all on the S23U, so not sure how well that translates to the S24U. Maybe give that a shot, might help a bit 😅

Thanks, Brent. Would love to see separate images stacked as you mentioned.

That green is the Aurora. I take night pics of the Alaska sky and sometimes they become red. When the aurora is real strong, I get spectacular pics of it.

Brent, I love your videos! This was very comprehensive and informative!! I like your ZEN like approach to photography! Keep up the great work!

Pro mode for astro is the best. Exp. Raw is STRANGE in processing

Stack em up brother Brent!

Yes, do stack

I really admire your tutorials about the Milky-way, Astrophotography and Mobile Photography in General... ❤️❤️❤️

I've read that the post-processing it does automatically even on the raw and pro is a bug that will be fixed in the next soft update in August. Also, even though it says that it only affects photo mode, setting intelligent optimization in the settings to minimum does noticeably decrease the post-processing when using the 12mp cam, even in pro mode (on 50 & 200 it doesn't help because the phone takes longer to take a photo, giving it more time to post-process).

You should stack a hundred of RAW photos (or more) using Deep Sky Stacker (DSS). You may also need to take darks and flats in the field next time, to properly reduce noise, sensor imperfections, and vignetting. And a startracker mount like Nomad would help a lot.

i have been waiting for this so hard😍

Ive watched a few of your videos, and they are really great. I havent got a very technical mind on cameras/phones but your videos help show me settings that work. So thank you. Just curious to see/know if there are any other apps that shoot in proper raw mode. Would these photos save in a similar file format and edit in a similar way compared to the inhouse stuff on the s24u and would that then allow the use of the de noiser you mentioned in the video? Do the stack i would also be curious to see the result.

Thank you for the video. I am seeing much the same with my S24 Ultra. Excessively warm so I now set the white balance also to cool it down. The last update did fix the horrible banding problem in astrophotography mode and the raw file size has increased so looks to be different than a plain jpg in a dng wrapper. I am getting decent results in astrophotography mode now so glad about that - glass half full😊

samsung is smoking high stuff for processing the RAW mode too😂, you are the only one I have seen so far who have pointed this sketchy behaviour of Samsung ruining tte manual mode. You are the best at what you do!

Please upload one milkyway raw of this phone

a little hello to thank you I gave up on astro with this gear I just check the basic app and auto night mode the rest is no longer at the level of the S22u, even to stack with Sequator Looking forward to following you

Sir can you provides raws?

I just found your channel l like what I have seen so far. Went from an iPhone 8 Plus to s24ultra.

Could you please compare the stock camera with third party camera app like ProShot because the stock is not giving a real raw files even the pro mode is processed.