Photographing the moon is not easy. With a professional camera, preparations are essential: tripod, remove the anti-shake mode from the camera, manual focus, closed f-number as well as the shutter speed which must be medium (250 for example). This means that often the image is not as sharp as we would like. And that’s when your “friend” stands next to you, pulls his Samsung out of his pocket and takes a handheld picture of you and it becomes one of the clearest pictures on the Moon. But you who read this blog, know that there’s a trick and it’s called computational photography
Cell phones today, their cameras, in addition to working very well and being advanced hardware, have software that reaches where the physical elements do not. No matter how good the camera is, it can’t be one of the best due to the size of the sensor and the crystals, so its shortcomings are compensated for by the software. What is called digital photography and sometimes they cross the line
It was possible to determine that those of Samsung use a series of models so that the photographs of the moon are always good, however we take the picture. A Reddit user showed it as follows:
He downloaded a high-resolution image of the moon, scaled it down to just 170 x 170 pixels, cropped the highlights, and applied Gaussian blur to dramatically obscure detail on the moon’s surface. This low resolution image was placed on a monitor and captured remotely from a Samsung Galaxy device. The resulting image has much more detail than its source.
So Samsung makes you believe that their Zoom is great and that you are a very good photographer. But the reality is quite different. Thorough.
