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08-21-2018, 7:31am
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Chief Meat Gazer
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is she faking it ?
Huawei gets caught faking DSLR shots as smartphone pictures in a commercial
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbrea...a-3-commercial 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. 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. /cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/60953391/Screen_Shot_2018_08_20_at_9.44.50_AM.0.png) 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. In Huawei’s defense, the ad never outright claims that the picture was shot on a Nova 3 (although one could argue that it was heavily implied). And, as Android Police points out, this isn’t exactly Huawei’s first marketing mishap: the company was caught Photoshopping away bezels on renderings for the P8, and it was found to have posted a shot that appeared to be from a P9 on its Google+ page that EXIF data revealed to have been shot on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III. Still, it’d be nice if Huawei would stick to advertising its phone based on the strength of what it can actually do — which is probably impressive enough, even without fakery — instead of hiding its capabilities behind marketing smoke and mirrors. |
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08-21-2018, 10:16am
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Well, I'm glad we got that cleared up.
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08-21-2018, 10:44am
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Sparkles Flambeaux
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wait a minute..... advertisers lie about their products and services in order to get people to buy them with their money?
well, that doesn't seem very sporting.  how about an honest sales pitch: buy my crap or the cat gets it. and I have lots of cats. |
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08-21-2018, 11:10am
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Huawei is full of scumbags.
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08-21-2018, 12:58pm
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