It’s been a year since I formally started my new hobby of astrophotography. Since then, I’ve taken some of the best phones to see how they handle astrophotography with their respective cameras — like the Galaxy S24 Ultra and its much hyped 100x space zoom. And now that I've had a good feel for the iPhone 16 Pro Max, including its new Camera Control button, I decided to spend a weekend using it for astrophotography.
There are good reasons why the iPhone 16 Pro Max is the best camera phone around. Not only does it have a versatile 48MP main camera that dishes up sharp results in just about any condition, but I’ve found that Apple effectively uses pixel binning to enhance the quality with photos from its 12MP telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom.
