Wow.

From one of the comments there:

> When people take a picture on the moon, they want a cool looking picture of the moon, and every time I have take a picture of the moon, on what is a couple of year old phone which had the best camera set up at the time, it looks awful, because the dynamic range and zoom level required is just not at all what smart phones are good at.

> Hence they solved the problem and gave you your picture of the moon. Which is what you wanted, not a scientifically accurate representation of the light being hit by the camera sensor. We had that, it is called 2010.

Where does one draw the line though? This is a kind of lying, regardless of the whole discussion about filters and photos always being an interpretation of raw sensor data and whatnot.

Again, where does one draw the line? The person taking a snapshot of the moon expects a correlation between the data captured by the sensor and whatever they end up showing their friends. What if the camera only acknowledged "ok, this user is trying to photograph the moon" and replaced ALL of the sensor data with a library image of the moon it has stored in its memory? Would this be authentic or fake? It's certainly A photo of the moon, just not a photo taken with the current camera. But the user believes it's taken with their camera.

I think this is lying.