Samsung faking Moon shots

By: Rohit Yadav

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Updated on: 15-Mar-2023

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Unlike other brands that use overlays or texture effects, Samsung claims that it does not apply any such effects. However, a Samsung user on the r/Android subreddit recently posted a detailed explanation that purported to prove that Samsung's moon shots are "fake."

Their method involved downsizing a high-resolution image of the moon to just 170 by 170 pixels, clipping the highlights, and heavily obscuring the surface details with a gaussian blur. This low-resolution image was then captured with a Samsung Galaxy device, resulting in an image with considerably more detail than the source.

Samsung apparently achieves this effect by using machine learning trained on a large number of moon images, making the photography effect purely computational. This has led to accusations that the feature is a disingenuous representation of the camera hardware's actual capabilities, and has sparked heated debate online, even calling into question the iPhone's reliance on computational photography.