Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
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Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
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Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
#2Ah man, I immediately thought of another recent case of a smartphone manufacturer faking their phone's camera shots[0] (turns out TFA links to it as well). Just a single instance of this kind of fraud is enough for me to write off a brand forever, frankly. If you're lying to my face before I even bought your product, who knows how much else you're lying about. Zero trust for companies like this.
[0] https://www.diyphotography.net/huawei-passes-off-dslr-photos...
Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
#3Ah man, I immediately thought of another recent case of a smartphone manufacturer faking their phone's camera shots[0] (turns out TFA links to it as well). Just a single instance of this kind of fraud is enough for me to write off a brand forever, frankly. If you're lying to my face before I even bought your product, who knows how much else you're lying about. Zero trust for companies like this. [0] https://www.diyph…
You'd write off an entire massive company for the mistakes of Hauwei Egypt or Samsung Malaysia? It's not like this is central company policy, it's the people localizing the marketing.
Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
#4The crazy thing is, their phones take amazing photos. Why do they need to fake it?
Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
#5The crazy thing is, their phones take amazing photos. Why do they need to fake it?
Because they’re actually nowhere near as good as a DSLR and they want you to think they are.
Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
#6The crazy thing is, their phones take amazing photos. Why do they need to fake it?
The same reason anybody uses a stock photo for anything. You can spend $10,000 and a bunch of time to rent a set, actors, techs and a photographer or you can spend $200 to buy a stock photo in a few minutes.
Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
#7Ah man, I immediately thought of another recent case of a smartphone manufacturer faking their phone's camera shots[0] (turns out TFA links to it as well). Just a single instance of this kind of fraud is enough for me to write off a brand forever, frankly. If you're lying to my face before I even bought your product, who knows how much else you're lying about. Zero trust for companies like this. [0] https://www.diyph…
You'd write off an entire massive company for the mistakes of Hauwei Egypt or Samsung Malaysia? It's not like this is central company policy, it's the people localizing the marketing.
They reflect company values and culture.
If this was the first incident, then I would tend to agree with you. But this is just one of a long string of similar incidents that together form a pattern that reflect on the company values.
Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
#8The crazy thing is, their phones take amazing photos. Why do they need to fake it?
They all fake it. Even those few that are taken with a phone are so far removed from what a phone owner has, I think it would be more honest to label them with a huge "FAKED photo" banner.
Here's an example for iPhone where they're using some complex mounting frame to connect a 35mm prime lens to the front of an iPhone. The phone becomes more like a smart camera back. https://petapixel.com/2017/06/30/truth-shot-iphone-style-ads...
I call it fraudulent, and should be in breach of advertising regulations.
Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
#9The crazy thing is, their phones take amazing photos. Why do they need to fake it?
A phone camera lens just cannot take a photo as good as a DSLR without having a proper sized sensor and a matching lens size... you can do all sorts of software tricks to make a photo look "better" but it's not physically possible, despite what their marketing teams want you to believe.
Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
#10The crazy thing is, their phones take amazing photos. Why do they need to fake it?
They all fake it. Even those few that are taken with a phone are so far removed from what a phone owner has, I think it would be more honest to label them with a huge "FAKED photo" banner. Here's an example for iPhone where they're using some complex mounting frame to connect a 35mm prime lens to the front of an iPhone. The phone becomes more like a smart camera back. https://petapixel.com/2017/06/30/truth-shot-iphon…
OnePlus doesn't, at least https://photos.oneplus.com/gallery