Who says you need an expensive DSLR to take good coral shots. (1 Viewer)

[PorpoiseHork]

So I decided to upgrade my phone since my old one was confused about its station in life. I went with the LG V30 and was playing around with the manual camera mode and these are a a couple shots I managed to get of some new corals I recently added.

Settings in manual mode are as follows;

Manual focus - On
WB set to 7500K
ISO - 1600
Fstop - 1/1250

By cranking the white balance way up, I was able to get the photo color to nearly the same as it appears in the tank it without a gel filter.

My new Blasto



And my new what I believe is a Favia



I'm sure if I do some tweaking with the settings I can get even better shots than these. I still want to compare them to what I can get with my D60 but I'm rather impressed with the results so far.

 

[FarmerTy]

So I decided to upgrade my phone since my old one was confused about its station in life. I went with the LG V30 and was playing around with the manual camera mode and these are a a couple shots I managed to get of some new corals I recently added.

Settings in manual mode are as follows;

Manual focus - On
WB set to 7500K
ISO - 1600
Fstop - 1/1250

By cranking the white balance way up, I was able to get the photo color to nearly the same as it appears in the tank it without a gel filter.

My new Blasto



And my new what I believe is a Favia



I'm sure if I do some tweaking with the settings I can get even better shots than these. I still want to compare them to what I can get with my D60 but I'm rather impressed with the results so far.

Have the LG V20. All my corals shots and videos are shot on that phone. I agree 100% that in lieu of a DSLR, you can get good enough with phones that have manual controls for camera settings for most purposes in our hobby.

 

[reefling]

Have the LG V20. All my corals shots and videos are shot on that phone. I agree 100% that in lieu of a DSLR, you can get good enough with phones that have manual controls for camera settings for most purposes in our hobby.

I have the Moto z2 play and it does the trick. We have 4 nice DSLR cameras, but I don't see a need to roll all that out most of the time haha

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[FarmerTy]

I have the Moto z2 play and it does the trick. We have 4 nice DSLR cameras, but I don't see a need to roll all that out most of the time haha

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4! Sell me one! [emoji6]

 

[reefling]

4! Sell me one! [emoji6]

I use some for video. 3 angles.

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[FarmerTy]

I use some for video. 3 angles.

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That's way over my head there! I'm still trying to master one angle.