Impressive photos of the moon are often possible with Samsung mobile phones – without a tripod or additional equipment. But apparently the South Korean manufacturer is cheating, as a fan now shows.
On the left is the blurry and pixelated photo of the moon that the Samsung fan took with his cellphone, on the right is the resulting image. (Source: /Reddit/ibreakphotos)
With the Galaxy S23 Ultra and other Samsung cell phones, you can take impressive photos of the moon – without having to dig through the camera parameters in Pro mode or screw the cell phone onto a tripod. It is enough to zoom in on the moon and pull the trigger, as the following YouTube video shows.
However, a fan of the South Korean manufacturer is now open Reddit reveals that Samsung is helping massively with this. To do this, he loaded an image of the moon onto his computer, scaled it down and pixelated all the details. He then had the 170 x 170 pixel image displayed full screen on his monitor, darkened the room and photographed the screen from across the room with his Galaxy phone. The result: a sharp, detailed image of the moon.
AI apparently adds details
How can that be? According to the fan, Samsung apparently uses an AI that recognizes that you want to photograph the moon. It was previously trained with hundreds of images of the moon and uses these to add details such as craters to the motif.
Also interesting…
Samsung isn’t the only manufacturer convicted of “trickery” in moon photos. In 2019 there was a similar debate about moon photos taken with the Huawei P30. This has not damaged the reputation of the Huawei P30 Pro as an excellent camera phone. And with the S23 Ultra, too, many people probably don’t care how the beautiful moon photo was taken.
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