Hijacking this comment because of this line that reminded me of something:

"There is a crazy amount of image processing going on behind the scenes in each smartphone"

I bought the Pixel 10 because it said it had great zooming capabilities. After 5X (that means 10X), it's completely stupid. Basically it takes a very blurred photo and then tries to reconstruct it with AI. The final results are completely awful and really distant from reality.

Any advice in how to improve that?

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deepsun an hour ago | parent | next [-]

One solution is to buy a more expensive Pro version that has optical 5x zoom (or, rather, a third camera that start at 5x).

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nemomarx 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can use third party camera apps - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/ is a decent one. I know there's a few professional ish options too with dslr ish focus control.

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dgacmu 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In photos after you can toggle between the AI modified and original. The original isn't as blurry as the preview shown - there's still a lot of image stacking happening and it's often very decent in my experience.

Edited to add: I have a pixel 10 pro which has a better zoom lens, so I could be having a different experience than you...

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cromka an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Basically it takes a very blurred photo and then tries to reconstruct it with AI

So the ENHANCE is no longer just some lazy movie writing!

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shye 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Can't wait for the first use of such images as evidence in court.

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johnvanommen 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Even funnier:

The biggest of the "sharpening with AI" models, if you let 'em go, they'll turn you into a celebrity on accident.

If you go to the Topaz AI forums on Facebook, you'll see examples of where the AI sharpening tool went off the rails and turned a blurry photo of someone (typically the user who bought the software, who is trying to clean up their own photos) into whichever celebrity that is in the AI model who resembles them.

IE, it might turn a photo of YOU into a photo of Robert Downey Jr.

	▲	cromka 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's hilarious! Also wonder how how long until photos are no longer court-admissible evidence because they get overwhelmed with the burden of the amount (and the cost) of the "non-AI" certification?

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RamblingCTO 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wasn't that the same manufacturer that got caught with the moon AI stuff? Lol

	▲	dgacmu 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The was Samsung, iirc: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_sp...
	▲	viciousvoxel 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That was samsung