Reddit forum user ibreakphotos said In fact, it’s about an experiment where Samsung proved that the flagships in the Galaxy S Ultra series can’t catch the moon in the quality the devices deliver. Smartphones show frames with a satellite image greatly altered by a neural network, rather than a real photo of the moon.
Ibreakphotos downloaded a detailed image of the moon from the internet and then using a graphics editor reduced the image resolution to 170 by 170 pixels and blurred it. The user opened the blurred image on a computer screen and photographed it with a Samsung smartphone from a great distance in Space Zoom mode. As a result, the flagship produced a high-quality photo of the Moon with satisfactory detail, not a blurry satellite image open on the PC screen.
“Samsung uses a neural network trained on hundreds of images of the moon to restore your moon photos or add texture to them. So many people think that good photos of the Moon are the capabilities of the camera, but actually it is not,” ibreakphotos wrote.
Samsung has been launching Space Zoom on its flagships since the Galaxy S 20 Ultra. Many journalists and bloggers often noted this option as a merit of South Korean devices.
The ibreakphotos post caused a huge backlash among Reddit users – some began accusing the South Korean company of lying. Later, a user under the pseudonym McSnoo pointed out that it would be difficult for dissatisfied Samsung fans to present anything to the company in court, as he spoke about the role of neural networks in the work of Space Zoom in 2022. True, he did this on the Korean tech support site, not as part of a presentation.
Formerly socialbites.ca Wrote The cameras of the Samsung Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus take imperfect photos with arbitrary blur.