With no final destination in mind and no set schedule for the road trip, we’re capturing photos of our beloved home country, doing a little backpacking, and shooting a few astrophotos, too. Only a few days after buying the OnePlus One, Diana and I departed on our All-American road trip through the southwestern United States. The OnePlus One houses a 1/3.06″ Sony Exmor RS IMX214 Sensor and a 3.79mm f/2 lens (Approximately equivalent to a 28mm field of view on a full frame camera) It’s actually not the largest or highest resolution sensor or the fastest lens found in a phone today, but its combination of hardware and easily-hackable software have made for one of the most capable smartphone cameras available so far. It houses a 13 megapixel sensor with a 3.79mm/2 lens. The One was released a year ago on a limited invite-only basis and was opened to the public in April of 2015 for unrestricted purchase via OnePlus’s webstore. Better sensor technology than what you’ll find in your DSLR or mirrorless camera. That camera is housed in a smartphone called the OnePlus One. I recently purchased the camera with the most advanced sensor technology I’ve ever personally used. The OnePlus One Smartphone and Astrophotography The current progression of available technology indicates that it is inevitable. I predict that smartphones, or some evolution of them, will become truly enthusiast-oriented and professional-level photography tools, equal to or better than the best cameras we use today. For example, the primary marketing campaign of the iPhone 6 has focused entirely on photographs shot on the iPhone. We’re already seeing smartphone manufacturers concentrating specifically on the phone’s camera as being the primary selling point. The smartphone’s progression into the professional and enthusiast realm is just starting. Photography is thriving, and it’s almost solely because of the smartphone. They have made photography more popular and more ubiquitous than it has ever been in history. They dominate the world of photography as the most common camera in the world. Many of today’s smartphones are seriously good cameras. My OnePlus One smartphone with the Bamboo StyleSwap Cover next to the Sony a7II Though smartphone sensor technology has actually been quite good these last couple years, it’s only just now that we’re seeing the right combination of sensors, lenses and software to make photographs that were once only possible on enthusiast-oriented, large sensor cameras. The photo you see above was made with a smartphone. Yucca and the Milky Way, White Sands National Monument, NM, OnePlus One, 30s, f/2, ISO 3200 Introduction This is my account of shooting my first smartphone images of the Milky Way with nothing but my OnePlus One smartphone and a tripod. I anticipate the day that our slim pocketable smartphones will be more powerful and capable cameras than the the top-of-the-line DSLRs and mirrorless cameras available today. It’s about making some amazing images with limited equipment. This article is about providing evidence to the contrary. Some believe that smartphones will never replace “real” cameras like DSLRs or mirrorless cameras.
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