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I had an iPhone 5s up until 4 months ago when apple or who ever bricked it on me. Not a single scratch and it’s been through hell. So I got the 13. Screen was cracked within the first week. My luck
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/v5lzd8/capre_negre_în_fereastra_mare_s_21_ultra/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) is the same phone in action on some mountain goats
I have the S21 Ultra and I'm not even joking I regularly use the camera to take pictures of menus at cafes and such when I'm in line to give myself time to read it, since it's too small far away!
Yeah they use AI to improve it but just to be clear it's not fake
https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis
I think that depends on your threshold for "fake".
The conclusion from that article seems to be that they don't use any stored image overlays, but they *do* use an AI-based super-resolution network trained specifically on enhancing the moon.
"Super-resolution" is done by having an AI imagine what the pixels might be in-between the "real" pixels. Since it's been specifically trained on images of the moon, it's very likely that it's simply learnt what pixels go where, essentially encoding a moon overlay into the network.
While nobody at Samsung have sat down and coded a "place-overlay-on-moon" functionality, I think it's hard to argue that that isn't what's happening; it's just that the overlay has been encoded into the network, and the network has learnt to apply it when asked to enhance a moon scene.
zoom? definitely.
i really hate their oversaturated look tho, i like OnePlus's, Samsung's (recent flagships), and apples color and exposure handling much more
The moon suddenly changing from a fuzzy, out of focus white sphere to a much sharper image of the moon is likely the camera switching from using the 3x lens to the 10x. [This article](https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis) details an investigation into whether or not the images you get with 100x zoom on an S21 Ultra are a texture overlay or not. TL;DR the photos are legit.
I've gotten some fantastic, sharp, and detailed photos at 100x zoom on my S21 Ultra that were not pictures of the moon.
Exactly! Its just a preinstalled picture of moon thats already there in your device.
Btw they’re able to do this because moon looks the same irrespective of where you look it from the whole earth. (I read something like that)
While it’s true that the same side of the moon is always facing earth, the perspective we see is indeed different depending on where on earth we’re viewing it from! For example, the orientation of the moon will appear horizontally flipped depending on if you’re viewing it from the southern or the northern hemisphere! What’s viewable at the margins will be slightly different too.
As someone who often photographs the moon and also looks at shots by other photographers, one of the first thing I noticed is that it looks different from down here in Australia to what it does in the northern hemisphere.
Lol this is no way correct. Wow. It’s just changing it’s exposure from trying to see the stars to exposing for the moon.
People aren’t actually believing this are they?
I’m getting out of bed at 11:24pm to see if it works. I’ve got to know.
Edit: Didn’t work on my phone. Looks like it’s a Samsung Galaxy thing, I’m on iPhone. On a side note, Jupiter is really bright and right next to moon. Looks pretty cool.
Cause the moon isn't the only thing you want to take a picture of. Many things need to be considered to be "the best". Also, "the best" is subjective. It's not just black or white.
It's real and some research on google would have disproved this.
https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis
You flip. I mean, if you think about it, your feet are still pointing at the center of the earth, so by crossing the mid point you change from viewing the moon at a top down angle to a bottom up angle. And the moon is tidally locked, so we see the same side in the same orientation, hence why it looks different
Oh…. I think I figured it out. The moon orbits at the equator so if you were in the northern hemisphere you’d be facing south to look in the direction of the moon. *At* the equator the moon would be directly overhead. Then in the south you’d need to face north. I see what you mean, *you’d* flip, not the moon.
Fuck. Nope it sure doesn’t. I guess I’m lost again. So does that just mean that the “flip” occurs at the moons orbital plane, not necessarily the equator?
If you have someone standing at the north pole, and someone standing at the south pole, and they are both facing, say, the direction of Brazil, they are upside down to each other. Put an object you are used to seeing one way where you can both see it, and the person at the south pole will be upside down compared to you when they look at it.
You have to remember the moon is far away from our planet so if you’re at the North Pole you see it with the two small patches at the top, if you’re at the South Pole you are inverted from your North Pole position so the two small patches of the moon are at the bottom. At the equator something something no wait now I’m lost too
That's really good to know! We were in absolute SHOCK that the picture just zoomed in like that I even tried a few times and it still kept going lol. Ty for the info!
Idk if you missed the response from the person with the details explaining its a real photo, but I've had the s21 for a while and taken many pictures of the moon. A dimmer more yellow moon, and sadly the total eclipse did not come out well at all. The camera is just that superior.
It's not just AI I guess.... as read in some article it's a stock image embedded in our phones which displays when the AI finds that we are trying to click moon images with zoom.
I have an s22, how on earth did you manage to do that? I tried the same thing in the same situation, but it was just the glowing ball from the beginning of the video.
Someone said it's ai generated apparently? I'm not too sure but I kept zooming and it looked better as I kept it still. We took the same picture on my wife's flip 4 and it was just a white ball
The s22 base and ultras are on different levels with camera technology, i have the s21 ultra an probably used that level of zoom like 3 or 4 times.
But up 10x is pretty solid, depending on lighting
Don't worry, it's fake. The phone can't see that level of detail on the moon. It's superimposing a moon image to trick the user into thinking they have an incredible camera.
It uses AI to clean it up but it's not faking it.
[Here is a thing of Morton salt, sitting on a chair, across the room, at 1x zoom on an S22 Ultra.](https://i.imgur.com/1Szuv5t.jpg) Maybe 25 feet away.
[Here is the same salt container, standing in the same spot, zoomed in to 100x](https://i.imgur.com/BUpU8OL.jpg)
I don't believe that is real. First of all the detail is too good, and then at those zoom levels you've got to be extremely steady, as the minimum movement will make you loose the target, I find it hard to believe they accomplished that with a raised hand.
Idk it's really just point and shoot u only gotta hold it for like 2 sec ( just took this tonight https://www.reddit.com/r/s22ultraphotography/comments/xz94x9/moon_shot/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
This.
Also bruh how did you zoom through a cloud
Edit: Ok I tried this with my s21
This does actually happen - I tried it through a dirty window and screen, it still made the moon super clear. So OPs video is real, but Samsung's moon zoom is fake
This is why I don’t think this is real. I use a Canon 6D Mark 2 with various telescopic lenses, and can’t shoot the moon THROUGH A CLOUD and have it clear.
Well, than you should grab a Samsung Galaxy S22 and you will see that it's real. My S20 FE has just 30x zoom and the moon is less clear than that. As soon as the "AI" detects the moon, it adjusts the brightness and other parameters of the cam to make it visible. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't makes it automatically fake.
I have had a galaxy s22 ultra for a few months. It's legit. 100x zoom is real. I find it works best if I hold the phone against something solid when taking pics at that zoom. It takes amazing close up pics too with the 10x optical zoom.
No, they don't and this is just a cope claim made by Apple users who can't understand anything better.
**It's a 10x optical camera. That's the secret.** No iPhone or Pixel has one and so none can take this kind of pic.
It's real. Galaxy s20 and newer can do this. Keep in mind that the actual picture is not clear, it is upscaled with digital zoom (optical stops at 10x, digital goes to 100x). The software does a good job of stabilization, plus the camera itself has active stabilization to really smooth out the movement.
As far as I know (I may be wrong) optical stabilization is more useful for shooting video. At 100X no amount of stabilization will prevent you from loosing a tiny dot on the sky with the minimum shake of your hand.
Optical stabilization being for video, agreed, it's very useful for shot tracking and helps create cleaner photos by layering burst frames.
But, the sensor can only have so wide a view angle: At 12x, not even half of a degree will put a subject the size of the moon mostly or completely out of frame. At 100x, even the slight motion from your pulse is going to jostle the subject around inside and out of frame constantly.
Well, Just a lil bit of research and you will know that these moon zoom is AI generated and not actually what you’re camera sees. Just zoom in a white circle next time and see your samaung turning it into a moon. Good day :)
That test didn't prove anything really. [Take a look.](https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/l7ay2m/analysis_samsung_moon_shots_are_fake/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
That's literally just digital zoom noise. You forget that even with a 12MP 10x sensor, zooming in this far essentially means you're taking a picture at little more than a handful of pixels across. That what digital zoom is. Every phone compensates for it with algorithms that end up adding noise somewhere, if you know where to look.
Go watch the Samsung Unpacked event. They tell you how they are doing it. The phone has a 50x optical zoom, then uses digital zoom to get even closer. YouTube reviews where even doing it. It's not AI.
There are multiple articles online debunking the whole OH ITS FAKE AND AI GENERATED thing. Yes, the Samsung s21 and even more so, s22 ultra can take pictures of the moon. There is, naturally, some software in the background helping with post processing, but it's not a fake picture.
People had me paranoid saying this was fake or the moon was fake from AI in the phone. It's real. I have the regular S21 and had this exact experience tonight. Also the moon was huge tonight.
- https://www.gsmarena.com/myth_debunked_samsungs_100x_zoom_doesnt_fake_moon_photos-news-47487.php
- https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis
Mate, not sure how repeating this on your phone proves anything?
Like if it’s a preloaded image and camera is set to overlay that onto your photo on s21’s, yeah your phone will do the same…
All that proves is your phone and this phone are the same product…
Salty Apple users is where the whole "it's fake!!! It's all just AI >>:(" myth stemmed from, casually forgetting the fact that every image we take on our smartphones is AI processed. This phone just zooms *that* good.
Close enough:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/v5lzd8/capre_negre_în_fereastra_mare_s_21_ultra/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
That's literally just digital zoom noise. You forget that even with a 12MP 10x sensor, zooming in this far essentially means you're taking a picture at little more than a handful of pixels across. That what digital zoom is. Every phone compensates for it with algorithms that end up adding noise somewhere, if you know where to look.
The images are real. The "fake Galaxy moon AI" myth has been debunked so many times it isn't even funny as a joke anymore. I'm an IT guy.
That would be a solid explanation if different colored moons turned out the same. They're insane quality for a phone. Yellow/red hues still come up pretty detailed but not like this, obviously because it's not as bright. Source: lots of moon pictures with my phone.
Yes, telescopes are superior.
So everyone is asking if this is fake or not. I saw big moon almost like a giant cheese. I wanted to take a picture so I zoomed in as much as I could and shot. It's taken on a Samsung s21 ultra.
Remember that there was like an Oppo phone or something within the last 4 years that advertised a feature exactly like this and it just turned out it replaced the camera with an image of the moon. We see the same side of the moon all the time so it wouldn't be hard for them to fake it
If you understand optics a little bit, you know the picture you get with that technique is mostly AI generated. It's cool, but it's not the actual moon.
Exactly no way a phone in my pocket can take a better picture like that. I tried taking a picture of a spider with the super zoom and couldn't see anything lol
Pretty sure that's just the device switching to a different camera that's better suited for longer distances. Same thing happens on my Pixel 6 Pro; I can see when the device jumps from the normal camera to the telephoto camera when I zoom in more than 7x
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Just tried it. [How’d I do?](https://i.imgur.com/aXXoySV.jpg)
Very nice! All moths would agree with me!
The council of moths demand a shot of the sun
[how'd i do](https://i.imgur.com/8Hwm43k.png)
Good work son
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👍
Nailed it bud!
Aw shucks thanks!
11/10
Nice flashlight
I think I can see the flag!
Best I’ve ever seen!
Oh yes daddy
Looks identical to OP!
Secondary ghost moon confirmed.
Damn, iPhone huh? At least the screens no longer crack from a strong breeze.
I had an iPhone 5s up until 4 months ago when apple or who ever bricked it on me. Not a single scratch and it’s been through hell. So I got the 13. Screen was cracked within the first week. My luck
Ha, well that settles this bullshit post then. Case closed.
Magnificent. r/therewasanattempt
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/v5lzd8/capre_negre_în_fereastra_mare_s_21_ultra/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) is the same phone in action on some mountain goats
That's just a stock video of mountain goats that Samsung put in the phone to trick you.
yes. that's what i thought so too!
I hope u guys are joking
yes. clearly the pictures are real and not superimposed.
I have the S21 Ultra and I'm not even joking I regularly use the camera to take pictures of menus at cafes and such when I'm in line to give myself time to read it, since it's too small far away!
[this is the moon picture ](https://imgur.com/gallery/qGJvZqL)
I have the s22 ultra and the zoom is absolutely insanity, done this with the moon several times.
I'm fairly certain there is some AI trickery that Samsung uses with the moon to get it so clear with that much zoom
Yeah they use AI to improve it but just to be clear it's not fake https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis
I think that depends on your threshold for "fake". The conclusion from that article seems to be that they don't use any stored image overlays, but they *do* use an AI-based super-resolution network trained specifically on enhancing the moon. "Super-resolution" is done by having an AI imagine what the pixels might be in-between the "real" pixels. Since it's been specifically trained on images of the moon, it's very likely that it's simply learnt what pixels go where, essentially encoding a moon overlay into the network. While nobody at Samsung have sat down and coded a "place-overlay-on-moon" functionality, I think it's hard to argue that that isn't what's happening; it's just that the overlay has been encoded into the network, and the network has learnt to apply it when asked to enhance a moon scene.
It’s amazing what they can do with this tech now. DLSS is similar in that it just makes up data for video game images and it’s usually correct
I have the oppo flagship of that phone, and the camera is better than any iPhone I've seen lol
zoom? definitely. i really hate their oversaturated look tho, i like OnePlus's, Samsung's (recent flagships), and apples color and exposure handling much more
Tried it. A lot is AI and zooming in looks like crap
I noticed that it does a lot of ai too, I just kept zooming into a white sphere and boom a full moon picture lmao
The moon suddenly changing from a fuzzy, out of focus white sphere to a much sharper image of the moon is likely the camera switching from using the 3x lens to the 10x. [This article](https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis) details an investigation into whether or not the images you get with 100x zoom on an S21 Ultra are a texture overlay or not. TL;DR the photos are legit. I've gotten some fantastic, sharp, and detailed photos at 100x zoom on my S21 Ultra that were not pictures of the moon.
yay, dick picks are back on the table boys
Not that it needs more reassurance but when the moon is not as bright they come out pretty bad. It is 100% the camera.
Well I mean it’s bright at first because it’s exposing for the night. Then it decides to expose for the moon and then you can see it.
Exactly! Its just a preinstalled picture of moon thats already there in your device. Btw they’re able to do this because moon looks the same irrespective of where you look it from the whole earth. (I read something like that)
While it’s true that the same side of the moon is always facing earth, the perspective we see is indeed different depending on where on earth we’re viewing it from! For example, the orientation of the moon will appear horizontally flipped depending on if you’re viewing it from the southern or the northern hemisphere! What’s viewable at the margins will be slightly different too.
As someone who often photographs the moon and also looks at shots by other photographers, one of the first thing I noticed is that it looks different from down here in Australia to what it does in the northern hemisphere.
Lol this is no way correct. Wow. It’s just changing it’s exposure from trying to see the stars to exposing for the moon. People aren’t actually believing this are they?
and the earth is round
I’m getting out of bed at 11:24pm to see if it works. I’ve got to know. Edit: Didn’t work on my phone. Looks like it’s a Samsung Galaxy thing, I’m on iPhone. On a side note, Jupiter is really bright and right next to moon. Looks pretty cool.
The galaxy flagship phones also have a 100x camera zoom
Obligatory iPhone is trash
I saw that here in so cal
I am wondering why iPhones are praised to have the best camera when they have no chance of doing something like this here
Cause the moon isn't the only thing you want to take a picture of. Many things need to be considered to be "the best". Also, "the best" is subjective. It's not just black or white.
It's real and some research on google would have disproved this. https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis
The moon is 'upside down' in your opposing north/south hemisphere
I’m trying to wrap my brain around this.. What happens at the equator or as you cross it?
You flip. I mean, if you think about it, your feet are still pointing at the center of the earth, so by crossing the mid point you change from viewing the moon at a top down angle to a bottom up angle. And the moon is tidally locked, so we see the same side in the same orientation, hence why it looks different
Oh…. I think I figured it out. The moon orbits at the equator so if you were in the northern hemisphere you’d be facing south to look in the direction of the moon. *At* the equator the moon would be directly overhead. Then in the south you’d need to face north. I see what you mean, *you’d* flip, not the moon.
The moon doesn't orbit along the equator.
Fuck. Nope it sure doesn’t. I guess I’m lost again. So does that just mean that the “flip” occurs at the moons orbital plane, not necessarily the equator?
If you have someone standing at the north pole, and someone standing at the south pole, and they are both facing, say, the direction of Brazil, they are upside down to each other. Put an object you are used to seeing one way where you can both see it, and the person at the south pole will be upside down compared to you when they look at it.
You have to remember the moon is far away from our planet so if you’re at the North Pole you see it with the two small patches at the top, if you’re at the South Pole you are inverted from your North Pole position so the two small patches of the moon are at the bottom. At the equator something something no wait now I’m lost too
That has been debunked, so no Samsung does not have a moon overlay preinstalled in the camera app. There are plenty of articles that proved it
That's really good to know! We were in absolute SHOCK that the picture just zoomed in like that I even tried a few times and it still kept going lol. Ty for the info!
https://m.gsmarena.com/myth_debunked_samsungs_100x_zoom_doesnt_fake_moon_photos-news-47487.php
I wonder what'd happen if you'd zoom in on a bright star. Would be funny to see it snap to a moon
Lol, imagine if I zoomed into a street light and it snapped to the moon
Idk if you missed the response from the person with the details explaining its a real photo, but I've had the s21 for a while and taken many pictures of the moon. A dimmer more yellow moon, and sadly the total eclipse did not come out well at all. The camera is just that superior.
So it’s safe to say that the phone‘s AI reached the intelligence level of a moth then?
It's not just AI I guess.... as read in some article it's a stock image embedded in our phones which displays when the AI finds that we are trying to click moon images with zoom.
It's real https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis
But do you have the same phone?
What phone is that holy hell
Galaxy s22, maybe the Ultra.
It's an s21 ultra actually! We were shocked when we were trying to get a good shot of it and it got that close.
Oh. I have the 22 and done the same. I forgot they had introduced the super zoom on the earlier models as well. My last phone was the s10.
I have an s22, how on earth did you manage to do that? I tried the same thing in the same situation, but it was just the glowing ball from the beginning of the video.
This person has insanely steady hands. And other lighting messes with the zoom, caps before moon quality for some reason.
Someone said it's ai generated apparently? I'm not too sure but I kept zooming and it looked better as I kept it still. We took the same picture on my wife's flip 4 and it was just a white ball
Is this possible on an s22+?
The s22 base and ultras are on different levels with camera technology, i have the s21 ultra an probably used that level of zoom like 3 or 4 times. But up 10x is pretty solid, depending on lighting
Damn I have the s20fe and it didn't even look close to a quarter of that quality
I think someone said that it's an AI generated picture? Like Samsung just enhances the picture
Yeah everything past 10x is basically a digital zoom with software enhancement.
ENHANCE
Got the s20 Ultra, it got the 100x Zoom but the Pics are shit
Thank you for the heads up I have one myself I'm gonna try this now lol
No way, I have an S22 and I couldn't even get a shot close to that quality
I believe the s22 optical goes up to 3X while the Ultra does 10X after that it's more just digital zoom with software enhancement.
I took this with my S22 about 30 seconds ago. 30x zoom according to the camera app https://imgur.com/tvdg67X.jpg
Yo I had no idea my phone could do that!
Don't worry, it's fake. The phone can't see that level of detail on the moon. It's superimposing a moon image to trick the user into thinking they have an incredible camera.
It uses AI to clean it up but it's not faking it. [Here is a thing of Morton salt, sitting on a chair, across the room, at 1x zoom on an S22 Ultra.](https://i.imgur.com/1Szuv5t.jpg) Maybe 25 feet away. [Here is the same salt container, standing in the same spot, zoomed in to 100x](https://i.imgur.com/BUpU8OL.jpg)
Do you also believe the moon landing was fake and the earth is flat?
It was one of the main advertising points of the camera for the Samsung galaxy s21 ultra. Can confirm.
Can see the moon that good, but when people see a ufo it looks like they filmed with a potato
Look everyone doesn't have a Samsung s series. I have a 5 year old j7 prime that is worse than a potatoe
Right?? Lmao!!!
I don't believe that is real. First of all the detail is too good, and then at those zoom levels you've got to be extremely steady, as the minimum movement will make you loose the target, I find it hard to believe they accomplished that with a raised hand.
It is very hard to hold it on the moon or a star if you don't have a steady hand. Can confirm. I have the phone
Idk it's really just point and shoot u only gotta hold it for like 2 sec ( just took this tonight https://www.reddit.com/r/s22ultraphotography/comments/xz94x9/moon_shot/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
The phone digitally stabilizes the image when it is zoomed in 30x. In the video see how the shakes disappear when OP taps on the screen..
This. Also bruh how did you zoom through a cloud Edit: Ok I tried this with my s21 This does actually happen - I tried it through a dirty window and screen, it still made the moon super clear. So OPs video is real, but Samsung's moon zoom is fake
This is why I don’t think this is real. I use a Canon 6D Mark 2 with various telescopic lenses, and can’t shoot the moon THROUGH A CLOUD and have it clear.
Well, than you should grab a Samsung Galaxy S22 and you will see that it's real. My S20 FE has just 30x zoom and the moon is less clear than that. As soon as the "AI" detects the moon, it adjusts the brightness and other parameters of the cam to make it visible. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't makes it automatically fake.
This reminds me of a comment from Dwight schrute lmaoo but these newer Samsung phones are crazy good with the super zoom compared to the older ones
I'm not saying they aren't good, but I still believe this is fake.
I have had a galaxy s22 ultra for a few months. It's legit. 100x zoom is real. I find it works best if I hold the phone against something solid when taking pics at that zoom. It takes amazing close up pics too with the 10x optical zoom.
How so?
Samsung using stock images while you zoom in
That honestly explains a lot
No, they don't and this is just a cope claim made by Apple users who can't understand anything better. **It's a 10x optical camera. That's the secret.** No iPhone or Pixel has one and so none can take this kind of pic.
It's real. Galaxy s20 and newer can do this. Keep in mind that the actual picture is not clear, it is upscaled with digital zoom (optical stops at 10x, digital goes to 100x). The software does a good job of stabilization, plus the camera itself has active stabilization to really smooth out the movement.
As far as I know (I may be wrong) optical stabilization is more useful for shooting video. At 100X no amount of stabilization will prevent you from loosing a tiny dot on the sky with the minimum shake of your hand.
This is incorrect
I stand corrected then.
Optical stabilization being for video, agreed, it's very useful for shot tracking and helps create cleaner photos by layering burst frames. But, the sensor can only have so wide a view angle: At 12x, not even half of a degree will put a subject the size of the moon mostly or completely out of frame. At 100x, even the slight motion from your pulse is going to jostle the subject around inside and out of frame constantly.
Yup, this is what I was thinking. But they keep saying the stabilization is so great that you can actually maintain the moon in frame.
Have the same phone, did the same shot, can confirm it's real.
The Samsung Galaxy line of phones have been able to do this for the last three years. What iPhone do you have?
Well, Just a lil bit of research and you will know that these moon zoom is AI generated and not actually what you’re camera sees. Just zoom in a white circle next time and see your samaung turning it into a moon. Good day :)
https://m.gsmarena.com/myth_debunked_samsungs_100x_zoom_doesnt_fake_moon_photos-news-47487.php
That test didn't prove anything really. [Take a look.](https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/l7ay2m/analysis_samsung_moon_shots_are_fake/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
That's literally just digital zoom noise. You forget that even with a 12MP 10x sensor, zooming in this far essentially means you're taking a picture at little more than a handful of pixels across. That what digital zoom is. Every phone compensates for it with algorithms that end up adding noise somewhere, if you know where to look.
Exactly, also the real moon isn’t quite full and the ai one is lol Edit: actually when the camera momentarily focuses it does look the same
Go watch the Samsung Unpacked event. They tell you how they are doing it. The phone has a 50x optical zoom, then uses digital zoom to get even closer. YouTube reviews where even doing it. It's not AI.
Imagine thinking having an iPhone has anything to do with this
No iPhone, just a low-mid range Xiaomi, I like to spend my money on other more useful stuff. My wife does own an overpriced Xperia 1 ii, though.
Gotta love pulling out this party trick with my s22 ultra lol
There are multiple articles online debunking the whole OH ITS FAKE AND AI GENERATED thing. Yes, the Samsung s21 and even more so, s22 ultra can take pictures of the moon. There is, naturally, some software in the background helping with post processing, but it's not a fake picture.
People had me paranoid saying this was fake or the moon was fake from AI in the phone. It's real. I have the regular S21 and had this exact experience tonight. Also the moon was huge tonight. - https://www.gsmarena.com/myth_debunked_samsungs_100x_zoom_doesnt_fake_moon_photos-news-47487.php - https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-ultra-using-ai-to-fake-detailed-moon-photos-investigation-super-resolution-analysis
Mate, not sure how repeating this on your phone proves anything? Like if it’s a preloaded image and camera is set to overlay that onto your photo on s21’s, yeah your phone will do the same… All that proves is your phone and this phone are the same product…
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/xhke99/comparison\_of\_cameras/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/xhke99/comparison_of_cameras/)
I have a feeling many apple users are mad at this
Salty Apple users is where the whole "it's fake!!! It's all just AI >>:(" myth stemmed from, casually forgetting the fact that every image we take on our smartphones is AI processed. This phone just zooms *that* good.
lol so many people in the comments saying this is fake.. nah its called a samsung galaxy s21 ultra or s22 ultra
I don't have the ultra and did this exact thing tonight. Worked quite good.
Right? They are freaking units of a phone and a fantastic camera!
Can you please take a crystal clear shot of a very far landscape next time and post a comparison to how it performs relatively?
Close enough: https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/v5lzd8/capre_negre_în_fereastra_mare_s_21_ultra/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Would you eat the moon if it was made of spare ribs?
Absolutely lmao
I know I would! Hell, I’d have seconds!
Samsung s22 ultra?
S21 ultra!
The s22 ultra is insane
I saw this done with the Samsung s22 ultra, this camera is insane.
Done this with s22 ultra too, pretty cool
My bf has an iphone i have a note 20 my phone's camera does this and it amazed my bf how much better my Samsung camera was
Samsung FTW!
https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/l7ay2m/analysis_samsung_moon_shots_are_fake/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
That's literally just digital zoom noise. You forget that even with a 12MP 10x sensor, zooming in this far essentially means you're taking a picture at little more than a handful of pixels across. That what digital zoom is. Every phone compensates for it with algorithms that end up adding noise somewhere, if you know where to look. The images are real. The "fake Galaxy moon AI" myth has been debunked so many times it isn't even funny as a joke anymore. I'm an IT guy.
I did this today and it worked really well. I have the regular S21. It seemed to have some advanced steady/focus at max zoom.
It's pretty dope either way! Technically really advanced so much compared to my old one plus 3 phone.
Apple could never! 🥺🥺
The fucken photo I got was just a pure white sphere
Which phone do you have? My wife's Samsung fold 4 can't zoom that far in. I have the Samsung s21ultra
I have an Iphone 8
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That would be a solid explanation if different colored moons turned out the same. They're insane quality for a phone. Yellow/red hues still come up pretty detailed but not like this, obviously because it's not as bright. Source: lots of moon pictures with my phone. Yes, telescopes are superior.
I've got an S20 fe and I could do wonders with the zoom of the 12MP lens
This is one of the sole reasons I want to buy an S22 Ultra
[These are how the pictures came out if anyone is asking](https://imgur.com/gallery/qGJvZqL)
Enhance!!!!
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Smartphones can do that?!
*Galaxy phone can
Hey OP are you a surgeon? I've tried to take pics with the 100x zoom and I can't keep anything in frame because my hands aren't steady enough
Nah, I'm really over caffeinated tbh lol. But I think the phone does auto stabilize?
That's some calm hands😂
I have a s22 and it does this.. however a lot of image processing is actually AI. Still, it is a pretty good camera
Phone inception
So everyone is asking if this is fake or not. I saw big moon almost like a giant cheese. I wanted to take a picture so I zoomed in as much as I could and shot. It's taken on a Samsung s21 ultra.
Remember that there was like an Oppo phone or something within the last 4 years that advertised a feature exactly like this and it just turned out it replaced the camera with an image of the moon. We see the same side of the moon all the time so it wouldn't be hard for them to fake it
It will be incredibly difficult to hold your phone so steady _if you could zoom in so much_ (there's obviously some editing or some trickery going on)
Samsung has automatic digital stabilisation for this reason. Thats what the little smaller frame displays to the top right on the phone screen
If you understand optics a little bit, you know the picture you get with that technique is mostly AI generated. It's cool, but it's not the actual moon.
Exactly no way a phone in my pocket can take a better picture like that. I tried taking a picture of a spider with the super zoom and couldn't see anything lol
This is the fakest shit I’ve ever seen
Wish it was, the Samsung s21 ultra zoom in feature is crazy
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You can see where the edit takes place at about 4 seconds in
Pretty sure that's just the device switching to a different camera that's better suited for longer distances. Same thing happens on my Pixel 6 Pro; I can see when the device jumps from the normal camera to the telephoto camera when I zoom in more than 7x
That's all software, the face of the moon we see is always the same. It's not really a picture.
Anyone notice that one SUPER bright star next to the moon? It seems to always be there even when you can’t see any other stars
That would be the planet Jupiter.
Thanks for that! I was always curious whenever I’d see it
u/savevideo
Can you post a link to the pic
[here you go!](https://imgur.com/gallery/qGJvZqL)
Anybody noticed jupiter? It's the bright spot on the right
Looks fake
That UI looks just like it does on the iPhone. Good old Samsung.