ELI5- why is it so difficult to take a decent picture of the moon on your phone?

263 views

Edit: I forgot to add a message. It’s so pretty when you look at it with your eyes but when you take a picture of it through your phone, it is a pathetic white blob.

In: 33

6 Answers

Anonymous 0 Comments

The reason it’s harder on your phone versus another camera, is that phone cameras tend to have extremely wide lenses, 8mm. The professional photographers who take pictures of the Moon use extremely long lenses, over 200mm, and one effect of using a longer lens is it a compresses the images so things that are further away look less small than when you’re on a very short lens.

You are viewing 1 out of 6 answers, click here to view all answers.