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[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's taking a video and doing aligning/stacking of the frames like you said. Not taking an actual long exposure in the sensor. Most photos on modern phone cameras in low light are done this way. There's a cool paper by google on their algorithm.