Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S23 series last month, with teasers before the launch showing us the ability to capture the moon.
As part of the series launch, Samsung boasts a new camera system with insane zoom capabilities that can, for the first time, professionally capture the moon, called “Space Zoom”.
Soon after the launch, the popular technology YouTuber, Marques Brownlee (known as MKBHD), released a video demonstrating the zoom capabilities of the S23 Ultra.
But are the images of the moon captured with the S23 Ultra really genuine? Reddit user “u/ibreakphotos” posted an experiment trying to verify if the moon shots are real.
To test this, the user used a high-resolution moon image from the internet, and blurred it as much as possible using Photoshop to check if the moon shot from the other side of space is indeed real.
Using the zoom function, the S23 Ultra attempted to process the image, and here are the results:
Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S23 series last month, with teasers before the launch showing us the ability to capture the moon.
As part of the series launch, Samsung boasts a new camera system with insane zoom capabilities that can, for the first time, professionally capture the moon, called “Space Zoom”.
Soon after the launch, the popular technology YouTuber, Marques Brownlee (known as MKBHD), released a video demonstrating the zoom capabilities of the S23 Ultra.
But are the images of the moon captured with the S23 Ultra really genuine?
Update 14.3 – Samsung Responds:
“Samsung is committed to providing the best possible photography experience when a user photographs the moon.
The scene optimization technology, based on artificial intelligence, identifies the moon as the main object, captures multiple frames for multi-frame composition, and then AI enhances the details of image quality and colors. This technology does not contain a layer of image on the image.
Users can disable AI optimization, which will disable automatic detail improvements in the image captured by the user. Samsung continues to improve scene optimization tools to minimize any potential confusion between a real moon shot and a moon image.”
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There are no official details on how this feature would work or what type of camera technology would be involved.
It’s also important to note that taking high-quality pictures of the moon is not a new concept and can be achieved with the right camera equipment and settings.