The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has two telephoto lenses, one is a 3X zoom and the other is a 10X zoom. Working with the phone’s AI, the S21 Ultra can capture a digitally enhanced photo of the moon’s surface. The plot was that Samsung was able to apply a moon texture to anything that looked like it. Samsung denied this and explained that the camera’s super AI resolution takes multiple images of the moon and assembles a more detailed final image.
Easy to show. I tried it earlier. Here: Even if you take a blurry / messy photo of something that looks like a moon, it captures a moon texture (ish). 🙂 that easy. No magic hardware, just smart software (combination), Huawei did it a year ago. pic.twitter.com/BmVhUPnq8v
– Alexi Bexi (@alextv) January 21, 2021
Mag entryRaymond Wong, himself, thought he would investigate. He asked a few tech reporters, who voiced suspicion as to whether they thought there was background processing running in the background. One of them suggested that there were no overlay texture files present in the camera APK. Another noted that there was already a lot of software running in the background and wondered if Samsung was just dragging textures.
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra quad camera setup with 3X and 10X telephoto lenses
After receiving mixed reviews, Wong thought the only way to really prove it was to compare the 100X shots to another photo of the same moon captured with a mirrorless camera and long-range lens and see if the patterns lined up between takes. The first show below was shot by the Galaxy S21 Ultra, and the second with the Sony ASR III.
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