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The battle of smartphones has been long debated by many as two tech giants such as Apple and Samsung have been battling to prove who has the best phone.
Despite of how good both phones are, many have favoured Apple due to its brand name and &ldquo;social status&rdquo; in society but many still stand strong by Samsung&rsquo;s side and it&rsquo;s more due to them loving the flexibility and customizability of an Android phone.
Battle Of The Cameras
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There&rsquo;s no doubt that as technology advances, both cameras are actually amazing and sometimes we can&rsquo;t help thinking that the phone takes better pictures than our DSLR or Mirrorless cameras. In fact, some of the most searched-for opinions online are about how the iPhone camera stacks up against Samsung.
For many years now, the highlight point of Samsung&rsquo;s camera has been their &ldquo;Space Zoom&rdquo; ability where the camera can take incredibly detailed photos. Most commonly with a zoom camera like it, we would point our phones to the sky and take a picture of the moon.
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Despite how incredible it is, recently a Reddit user u/ibreakphotos posted a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/">forum</a> about how much computational processing Samsung is doing and dubbing the image of the moon as fake. But here&rsquo;s the thing, the word &ldquo;fake&rdquo; can be very deciphered differently according to situations.
How Did The Reddit User Conduct This Test?
According to the thread posted up, the user had taken a high-resolution photograph of the moon and had intentionally blurred its photo. The user later took an image of the moon using the Samsung S23 Ultra and the results were quite surprising.
<img src="https://r2.myc.my/5753b3e394c1445468bdca4eb1e3fc4e845151f0ec9990fabefb3e70dd435426" /> First Image: High-Resolution Moon, Second Image, Blurred Moon &amp; Third image: Result from the phone
The first is a high-resolution picture of the moon and it was later brought down in quality as shown in the second image with little to no details but the photo taken by the phone was a &ldquo;crisp and clear&rdquo; photo of the moon. The post-processing of the phone also revealed details on the moon that was never seen before hence why the user dubbed the moon as a fake moon.
This whole controversy revolving around Samsung&rsquo;s ability to zoom up to 100x and unveil a crisp picture of the moon has been going around since they released the S20 Ultra in 2020 and many accused the company of programming and pasting textures of the moon into the phone. But in reality, there&rsquo;s more to it.
How Does Samsung Produce This &ldquo;Fake Moon&rdquo;?
In 2021, a lengthy feature had been posted about the &ldquo;fake detailed moon photos&rdquo; by <a href="https://www.inverse.com/input/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis">Input Mag</a> where Samsung says that there had been &ldquo;no image overlaying or textures applied to the photo&rdquo;. Instead, the phone does is that it uses an AI to detect the presence of a moon which later triggers an enhancing function. In a different post, Samsung allegedly says that they use a &ldquo;detail improvement engine function&rdquo; to remove any noise and maximise the details of the moon.&nbsp;
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In a video posted by Marques Brownlee (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd">@MKBHD</a>) on YouTube, he perfectly explains the whole situation that&rsquo;s happening behind the whole Samsung controversy. He explains that previously he made a YouTube Short that showed him zooming into the moon and it looked impressive. He said that it the picture is impressive and the phone isn&rsquo;t doing the AI fakery that Huawei got caught doing years ago.
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For context, Huawei&rsquo;s P30 Pro had faked the moon images as the system had used pre-existing images of the moon to show the final outcome of the photo.
MKBHD also went to the extent of testing out the camera on a high-resolution and low-resolution photo of the moon to see if the camera triggers the system's processes, and guess what, it actually did.
If you&rsquo;d like to know more about the details of how the feature works, you can head over to <a href="https://r1-community-samsung-com.translate.goog/t5/camcyclopedia/%EB%8B%AC-%EC%B4%AC%EC%98%81/ba-p/19202094?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-GB">this Samsung forum</a> that tells you about the software, but do note that it&rsquo;s in Korean and you&rsquo;ll need to translate it.
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In case you really wanted the most accurate kind of photo without AI processing the image, the feature can be turned off. All you have to do is go to your settings and make your way to the Screen Optimizer Setting in the camera app and disable it.
Conclusion: Is Samsung&rsquo;s Camera Bad/ Fake?
The short answer to that is no, it&rsquo;s not bad nor is it very fake. The reality these days is that phone photography nowadays is changing and the smart AI technology in our phones is processing the photos we take into something that will make our minds think that &ldquo;hey, that&rsquo;s a real photo&rdquo;.&nbsp;
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A good example of this would be the iPhone which can toggle the Smart HDR feature which could potentially ruin the look of some photos or make them arguably the best photo you&rsquo;ve taken.
We don&rsquo;t blame technology and plus, that&rsquo;s what gets everyone&rsquo;s attention. Are photos really becoming more fake these days, to some extent yes, but if it makes it better, why not right? End of the day, a phone is a phone and it&rsquo;s just a personal preference whether you&rsquo;re team Android or iOS.
What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments.
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*Sources: Visual and Reference Credits to Social Media, MKBHD, 9to5Mac, Reddit &amp; various cross-references for context.
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A Reddit user revealed that thanks to AI, a lot of the images we see nowadays are “fake”, but that’s not entirely true.

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Samsung “Space Zoom” Exposed: Are The Moon Photos Really Fake?

Samsung “Space Zoom” Exposed: Are The Moon Photos Really Fake?

A Reddit user revealed that thanks to AI, a lot of the images we see nowadays are “fake”, but that’s not entirely true.

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