Astrophotography : Using one camera, not two....

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Astrophotography : Using one camera, not two....

I make pictures of the moon through a telescope with an iphone. I had an iphone 6 before, no problems. I moved to an iphone X and since it has 2 lenses (2 cameras), it is impossible to use. You center the moon, zoom a bit, then it switches to camera 2. You move the iphone to camera 2, try to arrange the picture (adjusting brightness, focus), it goes back to camera 1, you try again, everytime the image is ready to be taken, it switches camera. I tried several things, pressing a longer time on the region of interest to block focus, but it still changes. it's a mess. Is there a way, maybe somewhere in the options, to choose a given camera and stay with it, and not let the iphone play that stupid game all the time. I assume that for people trying to get an image through a microscope it's the same thing. Same behaviour with iphone 7, 8 or X... Taking a video tends to stay with the same camera.

Thanks in advance for any useful tip.
Alain

iPhone X

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 10:42 PM

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geocroiseur Author

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Sep 1, 2018 11:16 AM in response to markwmsn

Thank you for your answer. The thing is I have a public observatory and we do receive thousands of people per year, and more and more have Iphone 7 8 and X, and they have just the regular camera application... And I use their camera to shoot pictures of the moon through one of my telescopes. So I was more trying to look into the iphone regular software if there was a way to set the camera I want to use and not let the iphone plays at catch me if you can type game.

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markwmsn

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Sep 1, 2018 11:54 AM in response to geocroiseur

I see. Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to get the current standard camera app pick one lens and stick with it through zooming and other changes.

I suggest that you let Apple know of your needs through their formal feedback path at https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos-ios.html

Perhaps they may add that feature in some future version of iOS.

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markwmsn

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Sep 1, 2018 11:16 AM in response to geocroiseur

Look around the App Store. There are a number of camera apps available that specialize in giving the user more control over details like which camera to use, at a variety of price points (including free). I don't use any of them to lock my iPhone X onto a single camera, so I cannot recommend any specific app to you. Of the ones I happen to have loaded at the moment, "Camera+ 2" does appear to be able to lock into telephoto mode, but I haven't used that feature in earnest.

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