Samsung misleading advertisement-A violation of ethics?
Now that smartphones are capable of taking photos that can, in some instances, rival those of DSLRs, companies seem to be getting more and more comfortable swapping actual DSLR photos into their advertising. The problem is, most phone cameras are still far from DSLR quality, so it’s rarely a fair representation. And Samsung is the latest to get busted trying to pass one off. Acc. To news18 channel.,which says clearly writer and photographer Dunja Djudjic says that she caught Samsung Malaysia using one of her photos to advertise the portrait mode capabilities of Galaxy A50s, a midrange phone that came out over the summer. Djudjic suspects that Samsung licensed the picture from her through the photo site EyeEm, so payment isn’t necessarily a problem. But Djudjic does say that the photo wasn’t taken with an A50s Instead, it was taken with an (unnamed) DSLR she owns. Samsung doesn’t state outright that the photo was taken on the A50s but it’s certainly implied by the page it’s on, whic...