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Lew Later

The Huawei Moon Photo Scandal

Lew Later

Quickscope Media

Tech News, News, Technology

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Huawei has found themselves in the midst of a brand new smartphone photography controversy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Will he do? How you doing? Great. You're doing what you do. That's the main thing. I look forward to it.

0:08.5

Starting to look forward to these. These little, these chats.

0:12.8

Yeah.

0:13.8

The news coverage.

0:16.8

I say it every time it's a lot going on right now.

0:19.4

Let's jump straight into it.

0:20.4

It's something I want to talk about.

0:22.0

Do you mind? No no go for it did you hear about the

0:26.5

latest wahway camera controversy you didn't you see I stumped you there. Well there's been a couple in the past

0:36.4

There's the new one

0:38.4

It's a Huawei moon photo camera controversy specifically relating to the moon.

0:47.0

Like who would have thought that would be the place where a controversy would emerge?

0:51.0

Now you may have seen people posting their photos on social media of the moon.

0:57.4

It's a popular thing to take a photo of in the first place,

1:01.4

but of course the latest P30 pro it's got this crazy

1:05.1

zoom function on it the hybrid zoom the optical plus the digital and there's an AI

1:12.3

mode that is engaged when you're taking a photo of the moon.

1:17.0

Now people were taking these photos saying, man, my moon photos look great in this mode. I never imagined it. Moon mode. It's incredible.

1:27.8

But it turns out there's some magic going on in the background that might not be the type of magic that people are comfortable with.

1:38.0

So rather than just your typical enhancement of like trying to gauge the correct exposure or something

1:45.4

like this. It looks more like some Photoshop tactics in the background where the moon mode is actually looking at a database of images of the actual

1:58.0

moon and then superimposing layers of those moon images on your moon.

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