Huawei P30 Pro's “Moon Mode” is a scam; understand the controversy

Taking beautiful pictures of the full moon is still a big wish for photographers, amateurs or professionals, around the world. do it with a smartphone was never a recommended task, but launching the Huawei P30 Pro changed the axis of photography through cell phones.

O P30 Pro was announced by the Chinese manufacturer with one of the best cameras in smartphone of the present and brought the unprecedented “Moon Mode” (“Moon Mode”, in Portuguese), which would finally bring to reality the possibility of taking a beautiful photo of the moon with your cell phone, without the need for professional photography equipment.

Huawei P30 Pro

Revealed March 26 as part of the new line P30 de smartphones da Huawei, P30 Pro stood out for its rear camera, considered one of the best, if not the best, in the current mobile device market.

O P30 Pro comes with a quadruple camera suite developed by Leica, which features a 40MP sensor, wide-angle lens, f/1.6 aperture and OIS + 20 MP, ultra-wide-angle lens, f/2.2 + 8 MP aperture, telephoto lens, f/3.4 aperture and OIS + a ToF depth sensor.

Moon Mode

Using a combination of all the lenses in the P30 Pro and artificial intelligence algorithm that improves the details in the photo, the Huawei presented the “Moon Mode” as a perfect alternative to take that much-desired photo of the moon, without even the need for a tripod.

How it works: The user uses the zoom of the Huawei P30 Pro towards the moon and from there, the device identifies, using artificial intelligence, that a photo of the moon is being taken and suggests the “Moon Mode”. With the mode activated, the camera system helps to take a “detailed picture” using its special algorithms.

the farce

after being accused of using fake photos in advertising campaign do P30 Pro, Huawei entered into yet another controversy. According to the website Android Authority, which cites Wang Yue, user of P30 Pro, “Moon Mode” is nothing but a farce. In fact, the very innovative mode doesn't help to improve the image to result in a good photo of the moon, but rather puts pre-existing images of the moon in your photo.

“Actually, this is not much different from a filter of the Snapchat", says the website article. In other words, the photo taken with the “Moon Mode” it may not necessarily be your photo, but a blend of your image with pre-existing artificial increments.

The evidence presented by Wang Yue show convincing arguments to prove that the “Moon Mode” It doesn't work the way it was presented. Read the article in Chinese.

Huawei's answer

Searched by website Android Authority to comment on the aforementioned report, the Huaweireaffirms that the “Moon Mode” works exactly as advertised.

“'Moon Mode' operates on the same principles as other AI modes, in that it recognizes and optimizes details within an image to help users take better pictures. It does not replace the image in any way – that would require an unrealistic amount of free storage space as the artificial intelligence recognizes over 1.300 scenarios.

Based on machine learning principles, the camera recognizes a scene and helps optimize focus and exposure to improve details such as shapes, colors, light and shadow. This tool can be turned on or off easily while taking the picture. While there is a 'Moon Mode', the photo can still be taken without artificial intelligence because of the SuperZoom Lenses”

Huawei, in a statement to the Android Authority website

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