Social media users are accusing Samsung of lying about the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s ability to take photos of the moon, and for reasons unclear to me, everyone seems to be feeling quite strongly about it all…
On the left we have a blurry image of the moon, displayed on a laptop; on the right we have what the Galaxy S23 Ultra managed to make out of it.that sparked the newly-developed interest in this not-so-intriguing conspiracy.
After I uploaded the same blurry image of the moon on my MacBook and turned off all lights, I moved to the other end of the room I then stepped way back into the hallway and went well past the 30x zoom mark to snap another photo of the blurry moon on my MacBook monitor, and voila… I took a zoomed-in video of the moon , as well as a few photos, which seem to prove all of the above. The interesting thing is that even in video mode with 20x zoom you can sort of make out some of the moon’s details.
What the Galaxy S23 Ultra is doing , is that when it takes a photo of the moon, the phone does actually use an AI learning algorithm to reconstruct lost detail in the moon. That’s possible because the moon and Earth are tidally locked, meaning you’ll always see the same “face” of the moon, which also makes Samsung’s training algorithm fairly straightforward.
The scene optimizer technology automatically detects the scene shot, if the focus is right. It adjusts the configuration values to improve the resolution of the image afterYou just have to press the shutter button after the moon is framed in a desirable composition and location. The Galaxy camera takes multiple shots and combines them later to remove any noise in the final image
My verdict will leave everyone disappointed , as I’m not about to “cancel” Samsung. But I’m also not about to cancel those who accused the company of faking moon photos. Could Samsung have been more forward about how the tech works? Yes, totally; it’s clear that Samsung’s marketing team is trying to sell the “dream” of moon photos without much explaining but its come to a moment when they’ve now had to come out clean - which they did