“Bug” in photo taken with iPhone makes woman turn to Apple to understand it

2023-12-02 22:30:00

While shopping for a wedding dress, the British woman Tessa Coates it was photographed by an iPhone and the result mightn’t be more astonishing. Three projections of her in the photograph simply do not “match” — which seems to be a very rare case.

When we look at the image superficially, everything is apparently fine, but the problem lies in Coates’s arms, which appear in different positions both in the main capture and in the two mirrors that appear in the photograph — probably in a dressing room.

As she explained on her Instagram profile, it is the original photo, without edits. “It is not panoramic and not a Live Photo“, wrote the woman, who also stated that “the fabric of reality collapsed” when she noticed the explicit inconsistency between the three sides of the image.

Mystery solved?

In order to unravel the mystery, Coates went to an Apple store, where a technician explained that what happened was due to the computational aspect used in smartphone images nowadays. “the iPhone is not a camera, it is a computer”, commented the professional.

As the iPhone camera takes a huge amount of images quickly to form the final image, the algorithm ended up deciding to compose the image with different moments — probably Coates moved his arms quickly in the small interval in which the capture was made.

The technician also highlighted that what happened to the bride in the dress store was something rare — “1 in a million”. Maybe that’s why it’s not common to see these inconsistencies in our daily lives.

Or not!

The people at the Halide app, who obviously know a lot regarding photography — and iPhone cameras — cast doubt on the issue.

This image, which is being shared as an example of “iPhone photo processing going crazy”, is almost 100% certain to be a fake and not an iPhone camera glitch.

Exposure merging happens, but on a timescale that is far shorter than one that allows pose changes as seen here. pic.twitter.com/RCLFnEfXlm

— Halide (@halidecamera) December 2, 2023

This image, which is being shared as an example of “iPhone photo processing gone crazy” is almost 100% certain to be fake and not a glitch in the iPhone camera.
Exposure merging happens, but on a much shorter time scale than that which allows for pose changes, as seen here.

The problem is not the issue of merging different exposures in a photo (something that actually happens). However, to have this result, this movement in Coates’ arms would have to be very, very fast, for us to have this effect.

In other words, it is difficult to know what actually happened. What’s your bet?

via AppleInsider, PetaPixel

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