Is Samsung faking moon photos with Galaxy S21 Ultra's 100x Space Zoom?

Last updated: February 1st, 2021 at 07:30 UTC+01:00

The Milky way S21 Ultra has the near versatile smartphone camera on the market place right now. Thanks to its dual-telephoto cameras (3x zoom and 10x zoom) and the Zoom Lock characteristic, it is well-equipped to have clear images of faraway subjects. However, some consumers and experts have expressed doubts over its ability to have real photos of the moon. It was being alleged that Samsung is using AI trickery to fake images of the moon, similar to what Huawei did a couple of years ago with the P30 Pro.

The conspiracy was that Samsung is slapping a texture of the moon onto annihilation that resembles information technology. And then, Raymond Wong from InputMag decided to investigate those claims by talking to experts and comparing the images of the moon shot using the Galaxy S21 Ultra and a $4,800 camera rig. He talked to some tech reviewers, including Michael Fisher (a.k.a MrMobile), Danny Winget, Dave Lee (Dave2D), Max Weinbach, and Brian Tong.

Easy to Bear witness. Tried information technology simply now. Here: Even if you take an unsharp/messy photograph of something that looks similar a moon information technology snaps a moon(ish) texture on information technology. 🙂 simple as that. No magic hardware merely clever software (combination), huawei did same year agone. motion-picture show.twitter.com/BmVhUPnq8v

— Alexi Bexi (@alextv) January 21, 2021

Dave Lee suggested that the images could exist fake or at least optically enhanced across reality. He said, "I think if it is fake, they're doing some college-level stuff than Huawei." Michael Fisher tried to pull a fast one on the Milky way S21 Ultra into thinking that a golf ball placed confronting a black background is the moon and checked if the phone is adding moon textures over it. Wong tried to do the same using a clove of garlic and taking a 100x shot. However, the Milky way S21 Ultra didn't turn those objects into a moon by adding textures.

Max Weinbach tried to search the Galaxy S21 Ultra'south photographic camera APK to run into if it had textures of the moon, but nothing turned up. Brian Tong said, "I don't think the S21 Ultra is making up textures that it adds on top of the Moon. Adding textures seems way too aggressive. I could understand AI possibly filling in the blanks to a certain degree."

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After receiving mixed opinions from the experts, Wong figured that the only way to prove what was going on is to compare the Galaxy S21 Ultra with a mirrorless camera and a long-range zoom lens. He captured an image of the moon with the Sony ASR 3, which had a $2,000 200-600mm lens fastened to it. The patterned lines and textures lined upwards between the shots of the two devices. Moreover, even after cleaning up the image from the mirrorless camera and then sharpening information technology in Adobe Lightroom, the Galaxy S21 Ultra's image turned out to be better.

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra with 100x Space Zoom

Sony A7R III Moon Photo Zoom Lens — Sony A7R Iii with a telephoto lens

In the end, it was proven that Samsung isn't faking photos of the moon, only there was a lot of software processing going on in the background. In fact, the Galaxy S21 Ultra shot ameliorate images of the moon than the Sony mirrorless camera that costs thrice equally much as the smartphone. Even in our review of the Milky way S21 Ultra, we managed to capture some impressive images of the moon in the twenty-four hours and the night.

You lot can read more on this subject field and how Samsung is using AI to improve its 100x Space Zoom so that it tin capture such fantabulous shots of the moon in the detailed commodity on InputMag past clicking the source link beneath the commodity.

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