Amazing! Nokia N8 Astrophotography – modified N8 looks out to the stars.
From one star looking out to another.
Check this out, Michael’s Nokia N8 has been modified for Astrophotography. the innards are taken out so it can take pictures of the stars!
Michael says he was drawn to the N8 because of the size of its sensor. It’s fairly large (and larger than many dedicated digital cameras at the time of launch and still to this day). He notes that for a camera phone, ‘it’s really big!’ and so very sensitive to light.
Great for planetary work apparently, and major plus due to the HDMI out. A wish though is that the N8 would have a long exposure mode.
More info here:
http://theycallthislife.net/post/11889351780/nokia-n8-camera-teardown-part-1
This is the moon. Shot a few days ago.
He says he’s interested in trying out microscopes too. I think you might remember some older work by some early generation Nseries as Microscopes.
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Cheers AmmAR for the tip!
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o.o awesome
Outstanding!! @_@
To infinity and beyond!
HAIL N8 THE GREAT..!!! \^0^/
”It’s not technology, it’s what you do with it” hehe
+infinity
Actually, as I was filming the Jupiter bits the whole “amazing everyday” thing ran through my head a few times.
Glad all you guys like my little experiment thus far!
“its not a smartphone”
really? Oo… hmmm
It’s not a “smart” smartphone anyway. It represents probably the last bastions of the “old guard” of Symbian and Windows Mobile, etc. How they could release S^3 with this thing in a post-iPhone world to this day blows my mind … and it’s not like Anna is much better. This is a different matter for a different post, however.
This.
Wish we can increase the exposure time in the future nokia phones… or with firmware updates in current phones. Exposure time of atleast 20 sec (if not possible in minutes) would be awsome…
Currently my phone supports exposure time of only 2 sec
Agreed. I want to start somthing going to write a camera app that takes a sequence of exposures and automatically adds them together, in effect making five 2 second exposures a ten second one with less signal to noise (also might as well add automatic dark frame subtraction as well, but idk if the N8 can take a photo and leave the shutter closed automatically).
That said, exposure time IS the current limiting factor in this experiment. If i could leave the N8 shutter open for a few more seconds, i KNOW i could image deep sky objects – hell, the Orion Nebula would be EASY. … But nope, no shutter control. I don’t even need to change the speeds, really, I just need a Bulb mode. Regardless, doubt anyone at Nokia will step up and get me the custom camera firmware I need.
Because of this, I’ve kinda moved on to trying the modded N8 for things that you can do during the day, like shooting super shallow depth of field videos with canon EF lenses. See: http://theycallthislife.net/post/16205930729/canon-ef-to-nokia-n8-lens-adapter-id-like-to
To boldly look where no phone has looked before.
It’s really an amazing technology what they are doing with it.
thats cool
Hmmm, Wonder if you could put those innards into a modified N9 body, and my gosh that’d be a sexy phone
Most probably it is almost impossible nowadays…
Some reasoning can be read here: http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/06/27/damian-dinning-on-nokia-n9-imaging/
simply awsome! i tried my N8 to click microscopic picz..! even i found smthng awsome interesting by zooming again those microscopic picz which can find even detaild studies..!!!!
Great pictures.