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China's Huawei Caught Faking DSLR Shots as Smartphone Pictures in a Commercial (theverge.com)
Smartphone cameras are better than ever, but sometimes there's just no substitute for a full-sized DSLR. Unfortunately, it seems that Huawei thinks so, too. From a report: A shot in the company's latest commercial for its new Nova 3 smartphone has been revealed by a behind-the-scenes photo to be a DSLR, not the smartphone as the ad alleges. As you can see about halfway through the ad, a bickering couple takes a selfie together apparently to show off how Huawei's AI and camera tech make it so that the woman doesn't need to put on makeup. But a since-deleted Instagram picture posted by Sarah Elshamy (the actress in the scene) reveals that instead of a fun selfie from the Nova 3, the shot in question came from a DSLR, shot by a professional photographer. In fact, the Nova 3 doesn't seem in be in the frame at all.
You would, if you were expecting a higher quality picture than what the phone actually produces.
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But we'd NEVER put a backdoor in our phones. No no no. So just trust us because we are so above board and truthful.
Nokia was caught in 2012 doing the same, where background reflections showed they had a full commercial camera + lighting rig shooting the supposed cellphone shot: https://www.theverge.com/2012/...
In other news, food does not actually look as good as the picture on the package.
Not saying that I like that, just wondering why start freaking out about it now.