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    Camera Comparison between iPhone 12 mini and iPhone SE

    I submitted this photo into a recent weekly photo thread. It was shot with my iPhone mini, which is a two lens camera, and was mounted on a tripod. I initiated a one second delay in Camera Pixels Lite so that the camera was stable. Both photos had minor retouching to try to remove the shadows on the backdrop, which I wouldn't get if I backlit the scene.

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    As a comparison, I tried almost the same shot with my old iPhone SE, which is a single camera. I took a focus bracket, and out of 10 shots, I only got two that were usable for the stack.

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    Both of these photos were shot with just the lighting from the layout. My next step is to shoot with the lighting that I purchased, but before I go there, I was curious about which of the two phones gave the best photos. Looking for feedback here. I'm not sure that the photos are coming out clear enough. I did not shoot these with the camera close to the aisle, I had to zoom so that I could set my tripod in the aisle outside of the layout. Do I need to shoot these types of photos closer to the model and not have to zoom in? Is the loss in clarity typical if I shoot at a high resolution, and then downsize the photo to fit here?

    Feedback appreciated.

    Regards,
    Jerry




    #2
    I think the first one has a slight bit more clairity, but it could be lightened up a tad. Other than exposure, there isn't much difference that I can see.
    HO Scale

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      #3
      The top photo seems slightly clearer, like Michael said but the lower photo is a bit lighter, particularly the smokebox front and boxcar end.
      Perhaps that's just lighting, was the intensity varied between photos?

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        #4
        As Russ stated, the top photo is a tad bit darker. But that will all change when/if you start using lights. This can all be touched up in your editing software at a later time.

        As for the clarity/sharpness issue Jerry, camera phones usually do a piss poor job when one uses the digital zoom. Even the tiniest amount of digital zoom (on most phones) will result in poor sharpness.

        What I have done in the past to overcome this when shooting 1:1 trains with my camera phone is to shoot wide at ZERO zoom and then crop the image to suite. This retains the sharpness and allows for a poor man's zoom effect.

        This 1st photo was a grab shot with my iPhone 13 on zero zoom settings.

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        Same photo below, but I cropped it within Irfanview (https://www.irfanview.com/).

        As you can see it remained crisp and sharp but looks like I zoomed in on it.

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        This can be done on the layout as well. Basically shoot wide and crop to desire.
        If your taking multi pics for stacking, also shoot at zero zoom and and take at least 5-10 images (the more the better) using a longer timer.
        I think I have set mine for 5-10 seconds?
        Then run them through the program and lastly, crop to suite.

        Hope this helps?
        The Little Rock Line Blog

        Rule #1 of model railroading.
        It's probably responsible for the greatest number of shoddy layouts because no one feels compelled to improve themselves. Meh, good enough...

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          #5
          Michael / Russ / Allen:

          Thank you for responding. I'm going to play further hopefully today, and try shooting without the zoom, and with lights.

          Regards,
          Jerry

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          • Allen
            Allen commented
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            Good luck Jerry!
            Looking forward to seeing what come up with.

          #6
          Jerry, Like the others commented, I think that the first photo came out looking better.

          Allen, that is a great suggestion.
          Loren Clarke - Fort Worth, Texas
          Modeling the Pittsburg & Shawmut railroad.
          https://www.flickr.com/photos/pittsb...wmut_railroad/
          "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above". James 1:17

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          • Allen
            Allen commented
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            Thanks Loren, it works on the prototype, so it should work on the model.

          #7
          Have not tried any lighting yet, but was playing around with taking photos without using the zoom. I shot these yesterday while getting ready for my operating session (I did everything I could to put off vacuuming).

          Here is a shot that I cropped out of a larger image. I did minor retouching of the photo to hide the square corner behind the freight house.

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          Here is another photo after playing around with backdrops in Paint.net and Affinity Photo. It is aggravating that I cannot do everything with one program or the other unless I want to spend countless hours watching tutorials and playing around. The backdrop was a screen shot from Google Earth in the approximate location where my railroad is set. This is a bit south of Spokane.

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          The photo below was shot in another area of the layout. Also shot with no zoom, then cropped out to get what I wanted. Minor retouching to the backdrop to eliminate a gap between panels, and added some grass to the foreground to lengthen the scene, and eliminate the fascia.


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          I shot these to see how my two latest car projects photographed (the CNJ resin auto car kit and the weathered Rock Island mill gondola with my printed culvert loads). I'm starting to feel like I should have binge watched the second season of "American Rust" instead. 😟

          I used Affinity photo to change the width on all three to 1200 DPI on the width. I don't know if this is too big to be posting here, but was too lazy to look up the maximum width. 🙁

          Regards,
          Jerry

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          • Scott1984
            Scott1984 commented
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            Amazing photos Jerry!! I don't know how you folks get such amazing pictures. Awesome work for sure.

          #8
          I think it looks very good Jerry!
          I can see that the boxcar looks a little scrunched in the second image, but it's not bad. I only noticed it when comparing it to the first image.
          Over all, I like it.
          The Little Rock Line Blog

          Rule #1 of model railroading.
          It's probably responsible for the greatest number of shoddy layouts because no one feels compelled to improve themselves. Meh, good enough...

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          • JerryZ
            JerryZ commented
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            I didn't even see the scrunched photo in the second image. Wow, some attention to detail on my part. :-(

          • Allen
            Allen commented
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            It's nothing major Jerry, I'm betting when you changed the width, you didn't preserve the aspect ratio?
            Look for a way to lock it and you'll be fine.
            Don't worry, there's a lot of things to play with. You'll get there.
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