What is the ``too mysterious and strange photo'' that the iPhone accidentally took with a probability of 1 in 1 million?



High-end smartphones such as Apple's iPhone and Google's Pixel are equipped with high-performance cameras, allowing anyone to easily take beautiful photos at any time. PetaPixel, a camera-related news site, introduces a very rare example of an iPhone camera accidentally capturing a scene that would never occur in reality.

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Below is a photo taken by British comedian Tessa Coates with her iPhone while trying on a wedding dress. At first glance, it looks like a normal, happy photo, but if you look closely, you'll see that in real life, Coates has his left arm down and his right arm in front of his waist, whereas in the mirror in front of him, Coates is... You can see that Mr. Coates has both hands folded in front of his waist, and that he is reflected in the mirror on the left with both hands lowered.



This photo is not a photo taken using Live Photo or burst shooting, and of course it is not a photo that was taken and then composited using photo editing software, but it is a photo that was ``taken'' with an iPhone. Coates said on

Instagram that he was so surprised by the strange photo that he completely panicked on the street.

When Mr. Coates immediately headed to the Apple Store and asked why this strange photo was taken, the corresponding technical staff explained, ``The iPhone is not a camera, it is a computer.''

According to the technical staff, the iPhone takes multiple photos in an instant when you press the shutter button, even if it is not panoramic or burst shooting. Although you are usually not aware of it, when you press the shutter on your smartphone, multiple images are taken, and in a very short amount of time, the multiple images are combined and processed by an algorithm to form a single photo.



The moment a photographer holds up an iPhone and presses the shutter button, the camera captures the landscape from left to right. The subject, Mr. Coates, moved his arms at the same time, and the AI in the iPhone stitched together the multiple photos taken, resulting in the photo shown above.

However, of course, this photo could not be taken unless various conditions were met exactly, such as the timing of pressing the iPhone's shutter and the speed and timing of Mr. Coates' arm movements. It is something that can only be photographed based on probability.”

PetaPixel says, ``In recent years, smartphones have made great strides in terms of image quality, but these big advances are not due to advances in hardware.In fact, ``computational photography,'' in which photos are processed using algorithms within smartphones, is the key to smartphones. It's my biggest influence on photography.'

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