"Castle in the Sky" [Huawei phone digital glitch, 海市蜃楼 华为 ]

[Mick West]

An interesting shot posted on Facebook. Looks like a digital artifact? (The floating blocks center top, not the fighter jet)

Here's another shot at around the same time

 

[Whitebeard]

The plane looks like Eurofighter Typhon to me

 

[deirdre]

This guy had the same issue and presents some examples. He is saying some of his zoom photos have some artifacts, but none have artifacts without the zoom.

Recently I noticed very visible large block-like artefacts in the sky. These artefacts are present on some pictures, but not on all, and they are already present in the photos before editing them

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I took some more shots and finally found out what's causing the artefacts: the digital zoom. All the pictures that are taken without zoom are ok, and most (but not all) with any level of zoom have these artefacts.

The Huawei P10 actually has, what it calls, 2x Hybrid Zoom, a digital zoom which is supposed to allow the level of detail of an optical zoom up to a level of 2x, by the means of two separate lenses. I don't know exactly how it works, but there seems to be something messed up in the current implementation.

https://photo.stackexchange.com/que...or-these-block-like-artefacts-in-the-blue-sky

 

[Mick West]

Excellent, and the OP photographer said they were taken with a "Huawei mobile", so that clears it up. It's s digital zoom glitch. Bad programming.

There's lots of those phones, so I'd anticipate other similar photos showing up, given the popularity of floatin cities in Asian culture. A search for mirage + huawei (海市蜃楼 华为) gives other examples:

http://www.twoeggz.com/news/8634122.html

http://inews.ifeng.com/55430504/news.shtml

 

[deirdre]

said they were taken with a "Huawei mobile",

you could have mentioned that

my forum link above says

Just called Huawei Support - they told me that its a hardware fault and has to be checked in repair center. Got a P10 here with exact same artifacts in the sky.

https://photo.stackexchange.com/que...or-these-block-like-artefacts-in-the-blue-sky

 

[Mick West]

you could have mentioned that

Sorry, I was in a rush.

given the popularity of floating cities in Asian culture

I was just at a Chinese friend's house, and they had this on the wall:

Which reminded me of the older floating city threads.
https://www.metabunk.org/floating-cities-are-generally-not-fata-morgana-mirages.t6922/