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Tried out the Astrophotography mode on my pixel 9A (lemmy.world)
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Astrophotography mode takes a 4 minute night sight exposure

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Samsung GS22+ owner here. I've watched in realtime as a blurry blob moon photo I just took was replaced with a clean recognizable "moon" in my gallery, a few seconds after taking it.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if this has gotten more advanced in recent years. Identify a few key stars as reference, and then paint in a pretty Milky Way from pre-defined images, while pretending to collect a timelapse.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Samsung themselves admitted to their moon pictures being faked some time ago, which makes me consider the idea that these photos could also be faked in a manner you're describing (especially with all the effort Google has been putting into their AI).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well of course their moon pictures are faked, the moon is fake

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    It's called post processing. Generally it takes multiple frames and combines them or gets other camera data.

    In theory, if this were true, you should be able to get a light, place it where the moon is and point it at it, and it should replace it with a moon. But it doesn't.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Im familiar with post processing.

    To be clear, the assumption is that the algorithms the phone is using to determine you were trying to take a photo of the moon are "smart" enough to identify it as a photo of a night sky focused on the moon, rather than a light bulb. I'm not sure how you'd set up a light of the correct brightness at infinite focal length to test this though.

    ETA: I've never seen this post processing happen so starkly with anything other than a photo of the moon, so it sticks out pretty hard. And I take a lot of photos at work of things that are tough to capture clearly.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I had to dig through my phone to find these photos when i got home from work, but they were taken literally seconds apart with my phone on full optical + digital zoom. The detail on the second is absolutely absurd, while the first is what I typically see on my screen when I've tried to replicate since.

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