Now just photoshop an image of the moon taken from a telescope on it 😂
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Samsung 'Fake' Moon Shots Controversy Puts Computational Photography in the Spotlight
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What do you expect from a company whose CEO has been to prison for fraud.
There are plenty of far-side photos you can find online. I'm not suggesting they send up a rocket! Their procedure involved blurring a photo on a computer and pointing the camera at the screen. So just substitute the photo.
And now that he has been released, they took him back and made him an executive chairman. It’s like a mob family 🤣
Oh, what do you know? He actually says exactly what everyone (else) here has been saying. That the Samsung phones change the image by adding detail that isn't there. Detail that simply can't be genuine based on the lens and sensor in the phone. Detail (and focus and exposure correction) that have been created by Samsung's method. He even says Samsung has an entire document that explains what they're doing.
He tries to handwave it away by saying "all phone cams change what we're looking at anyway" but he never, ever says the Samsung photos haven't been faked.
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Anyone still here? There is more:
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Moon and sky got gray rectangles, then photographed with Samsung:
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Moon and sky got gray rectangles, then photographed with Samsung:
That's it! I am for sure returning my S23 Ultra. I just took a picture of my dog and the end result was Brian from Family Guy.
I have found the 14PM is under processing sunrise/sunsets via photos. It always to be muted compared to what is there. Videos(HDR) taken are a little better, but still are underwhelming compared to what is taking place.
The orange was much more intense and vibrant that the photo shows.
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My friend at work has the vanilla Galaxy S21 and I told him about my Note20 Ultra and the moon. He got curious about his phone that we went outside and he adjusted the zoom from low #x until it gets perfectly clear at just 30x. This is S21's highest zoom capacity.
I later tested on Note20 Ultra at home and noticed that the moon looked blurry at 29x but once I hit 30x the screen suddenly showed the clear moon.
Try that between 29x to 30x on your android phone if it has 30x or higher and you will see.
Why so special at 30x?
I later tested on Note20 Ultra at home and noticed that the moon looked blurry at 29x but once I hit 30x the screen suddenly showed the clear moon.
Try that between 29x to 30x on your android phone if it has 30x or higher and you will see.
Why so special at 30x?
I am an idiot, that's what's going on.🤦♂️🤦♂️ The moon isn't in the same location in the sky every time.🤦♂️ Because of that, it appears to rotate with its pole pointed at Earth. Dammit Jim, I'm a bean counter, not a stargazer.
Hundreds of shots is nothing for someone who takes multiple shots in one sitting. I ain't gonna spend 15 minutes setting up my rig, centering the moon for a single shot. The first half dozen to get the exposure I want. The rest is experimenting with different shutter to aperature ratios.
In Photo, Edit, choose the circle in the middle and swipe to choose “Vivid” or “Vivid Warm”. The data is there and you can actually make it look more like what you remember by the other editing options.
What is demonstrated in the Reddit discussion, most recently, is absolutely not possible via deconvolution. Any of the state-of-the-art deconvolution solutions available will not bring you anywhere close to that result. It is cleanly, and extensively, outside "realms of consideration."I am familiar with various astrophotography software, in particular this one...
Lunar and solar deconvolution | Astro-photo
Lunar and solar deconvolution | Astro-photo | by André van der Hoeven
www.astro-photo.nl
...and it works as demonstrated at that link...well within the, cough, "realms of consideration".
The point of my posting is to educate the readers of this thread who are either maybe not familiar with or maybe not even aware of what is possible with deconvolution (or, in another word, well, math).
It probably goes without saying, but you absolutely can capture material detail in a moon photo using a telescope and a phone as a simple capture device. Could get much sharper and more detailed than this, even. The primary limitations these smartphones are up against when it comes to the moon, outside their sensors, are the optics themselves.
Umm... This is an article at MacRumors, I'm guessing most of the readers here are Apple fans.
Go post it in a Linux group, and I bet you get a lot of Linux fans commenting on it...
Samsungs so far behind. My Huawei Mate 20X did the fake moon shots over three years ago. 😂👌🏼