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

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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. The test of Samsung’s phones conducted by Reddit user u/ibreakphotos was ingenious in its simplicity. Our Zoom Zoom Zoom nursery rhyme resource features bold illustrations and will look spectacular when used as a display item in your classroom. If you’re using any of the PSAM exposure modes, setting the camera’s exposure manually or use program or shutter or aperture priority, you may want to underexpose the image to ensure that the detail of the craters on the moon’s surface aren’t blown out. 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.

Three of the six lenses on board the Ranger 7 probe in 1964 were made by Angénieux and captured the first ever close-up pictures of the Moon. This is an established technique that has its problems (see: Xerox copiers altering numbers when upscaling fuzzy originals), and I don’t think it would make the resulting photograph fake. The poor rocket has never been into space so when Reva and Bobby count down and press a big red button, Jupiter Two bursts into life. Whenever the “zoom, zoom, zoom” part starts, hands are rubbed together while rocking them up in the air. For photography, the standard of “realness” is usually defined by the information received by an optical sensor: the light captured when you take the photo.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. For years, Samsung “Space Zoom”-capable phones have been known for their ability to take incredibly detailed photos of the Moon.

In 2021, Input Mag published a lengthy feature on the “fake detailed moon photos” taken by the Galaxy S21 Ultra. Using Spot metering will also help you get the correct exposure for the moon, which will be the brightest part of your image. Samsung told the publication that “no image overlaying or texture effects are applied when taking a photo” but that the company uses AI to detect the Moon’s presence and “then offers a detail enhancing function by reducing blurs and noises. 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. In fact, by the early 1960s the Angénieux brand had already built a solid reputation in the United States thanks to the success of its lenses for the motion picture industry, and through its work for television with the American camera manufacturer RCA from 1958.

But for the time being, it seems fair to conclude that Samsung’s Moon photographs are more fake than real. And secondly: Moon photography is marketing catnip because a) everyone knows phones take bad pictures of the Moon and b) everyone can test the feature for themselves. Next, players will pretend walking with their fingers while singing “If you want to take a trip, Climb abord my rocking ship”.