Samsung has introduced a plethora of smartphones in recent times and the company seems to be focusing more on camera capabilities as well as AI integration in its phones. Recently, Samsung had launched the Galaxy A7, first phone with triple camera setup.
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But now, the company caught using DSLR photo on Galaxy A8 Star landing page and this is not the first time that something like this has happened with the South-korean brand.
A shot in the Samsung’s new commercial for its new A8 Star smartphone has been revealed by a behind-the-scenes photo to be a DSLR, not the smartphone as the ad alleges. While promoting the new smartphone, the company used a stock image taken with a DSLR to fake the camera’s portrait mode. The picture features a different background and is used to advertise the company’s new Galaxy A8 Star’s Portrait Mode feature.
Everything was fine until the photographer found out about this. The photographer, Dunja Djudjic, who shot the photo of herself was notified that her photo was sold on Getty via EyeEmand soon did a reverse photo search. Her initial reaction to using the photo “to fake their phone’s portrait mode”, was to “burst out into laughter”, not because of what Samsung did, but because of how photoshopped her face was.
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The photographer Dunja Djudjic even tried to contact Samsung, but was unable to get a reply about the image’s use.
This isn’t the first time Samsung has been caught passing off DSLR photos as sample smartphone shots. Earlier also, Samsung Brazil caught passing stock photos as Galaxy A8 camera samples.
Even the smartphone companies know that when it comes to photography, nothing beats a DSLR. Recently, Huawei also caught faking the Nova 3 selfies with a DSLR. So, nothing new here and we can expect smartphone makers to continue doing this.