[Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Lite Real Life Review] JoraForever:
Mi Note 10 Lite Astrophotography photo+raw samples

Hello guys, as a photography and astronomy enthusiast, i want to share my amasing experiences with my new Mi Note 10 Lite. Here is the link to most of my original samples.

[IMG="Sneak peak"]https://i.imgur.com/qSFc3Mj.jpg[/IMG]

How i made these photos:

Most photos have been done with the stock camera in a non-light polluted remote place.

I chose the standard quality for the photos, as "high quality" doesn't increase quality that much, but it takes considerably more space on the phone.

I mostly used ISO6400. (ISO6400 is a bit too noisy, because denoising filter is removing detail in the stars. i would suggest a value between 3200 and 5000, making the photos a bit dimmer)

A exposure time of 30s, and focus set to infinity is mandatory for this kind of photos.

Use a very stable support, use a good tripod on a solid base. I used a car as a support (i placed the phone face down on the roof of the car), but a car is not stable enough because we leaned on it, making the car rock back and forth, and that minor rocking made a lot of photos blurry.[You can't do 30s exposure photos hand-held lol. (anything above 1/4s exposure is blurry)]

Use a bluetooth shutter button (or wireless bluetooth mouse/keyboard, or something else),or use wired headphones with button (carefully, so that you don't pull the phone), or use a timer (5 seconds should be sufficient). [pressing the shutter button, or volume button really shakes up the phone, resulting in a blurry image]

Eliminate any stray light sources (car lights, other phone's light, other lights) because any light that can shine directly or indirectly on the lens of the camera, does affect the final image a lot.

Raw or not raw:

I can say that in the stock camera the raw toggle is done poorly, as it does not save a jpg when shooting raw.

It's easier to edit a non raw photo, and with a bit of talent, excellent photos can be done with non raw (with editing, of course).

I use snapseed to edit the non raw photos on my phone, as it's great, and easy to use.

I use photoshop to edit the raw photos, the whole process takes a lot of time, luma and chroma denoising, color grading, saturation, temperature, are all a nightmare and a half.

Yes, you can get better looking photos with better quality if you use raw, but only if you know what are you doing. (usually raw astronomy photos require lots of tweaking that auto modes don't cover)

I would suggest everybody to not use raw, use the 64mp mode, way less hassle, better experience, great detail.

Google camera astrophotography experience:

I've not tried many google camera ports on this phone (PixelCam_Plus_V2.0, and PX Mod v4.0), but i've had problems with both. (when it comes to astrophotography)

PixelCam does save them after a while, but it takes an unknown amount of time, the results are ok, but i'd like to see what i captured as soon as possible, and it doesn't want to turn on astrophotography mode sometimes.

PX Mod doesn't save astrophotography photos unfortunately.

If someone knows a decent astrophotography gcam (with more than 30s of exposure), please write a reply.

Comparison with Oneplus 5

The oneplus 5 had basically the same settings, but it mostly used ISO3200, i don't know which photos are done with what iso, but assume they all were done with 3200.

Even at ISO3200, the oneplus has lots more noise, but it captures the natural yellow light of the milky way.

I think the Mi Note 10 Lite does a better job at everything, except yellow color.

You can compare side by side the shots, as they were done roughly in the same place.

Tell me your experience. :)