Zoom to the Moon!: A first shiny space adventure touch-and-feel board book

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The generous interpretation is that Samsung’s process captures blurry details in the original photograph and then upscales them using AI. The company later offered a bit more information in this blog post (translated from Korean by Google).

In 2021, Input Mag published a lengthy feature on the “fake detailed moon photos” taken by the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But as the Reddit tests show, Samsung’s process is more intrusive than this: it doesn’t just improve the sharpness of blurry details — it creates them. Select it and the camera will optimize the settings, focusing at infinity, in the center of the frame. Brace yourself against a sturdy object or place the camera on a sturdy surface and use the Vari-angle LCD to compose the image.Without properly explaining the feature, Samsung has allowed many people to confuse its AI-improved images for a physics-defying optical zoom that cannot fit in a smartphone. They created an intentionally blurry photo of the Moon, displayed it on a computer screen, and then photographed this image using a Samsung S23 Ultra. The P900’s Vibration Reduction image stabilization means you can handhold the camera as you zoom into the moon. But a recent Reddit post showed in stark terms just how much computational processing the company is doing, and — given the evidence supplied — it feels like we should go ahead and say it: Samsung’s pictures of the Moon are fake. The only problem that it has is that the default max zoom is 200% of original and the imager may not want to artificially magnify (beyond the native size).

It’s a tricky question to answer, and one that’s going to become increasingly important and complex as computational techniques are integrated further into the photographic process. Fun, stretching, just the right length, full of adventurous vocabulary and punctuation, [with] tips to support the parent or carer at home or the teacher who needs inspiration at the end of a busy day. Use your mouse wheel or the + and – buttons on this incredible interactive view of the Moon to zoom in; use your mouse to let the image take you where you want to go. You can then edit this information pretty extensively the way professional photographers tweak RAW images and adjust color, exposure, contrast, and so on, but the end result is not fake.

Next they needed to develop a new mechanical processing method to prevent the grease - usually used on earth - evaporating in a vacuum and fogging the lenses. Another technique is to photograph the moon and the landscape as separate images and combine them together using an image-editing program.

It features engaging illustrations from Andy Rowland and quirky characters young readers will find hard to resist. Samsung doesn’t exactly claim its Moon shots are representative of all its zoom photography, but a consumer would be forgiven for thinking this, so it’s worth emphasizing what’s really going on.

This unique combination of engineering prowess and creativity at Angénieux ultimately led to a set of fabulous images that remain to this day an icon of human endeavour.

The series is ideal for both home and school, with gorgeous colour illustrations, tips for parents, and fun activity ideas.Samsung simply says it uses a “detail improvement engine function” to “ effectively remove noise and maximize the details of the moon to complete a bright and clear picture of the moon” (emphasis added). But for now, Samsung’s Moon imagery sticks out, and I think this is because it’s a particularly convenient application for this sort of computational photography. If you’re using a wide-angle lens and the moon is a small element, it likely won’t cause the overall image to suffer if the moon is blown out with no visible details.