In wanting to know?

[Sadandslovenly]

Asked in another thread...iPhone camera, if you turn the camera so the screen takes a pic of you, why does it then turn it round in the photo?
Anyone with an iPhone will ( hopefully) know what I mean.
Facial disfigurement shows as ok when I look in a mirror, but the pic taken with iPhone makes me look like Godzilla
Can ANYONE help?? Pwease

I think I know what you mean.

The camera lens has a concave shape for the depth perspective of an image and usually distorts images when they are too close to the lens.

I think you subconsciously block out imperfections slightly or get used to them when you're looking in the mirror every day.

I have a chipped tooth and I only notice it in photos. It doesn't look half as bad in the mirror.

Hope I've grasped what your getting at correctly!

Thanks guys. I would like to know which image people see when thy look at me....my mirror image, or the image made by the camera on the iPhone?
If someone takes a pic normally the image is same as when I look in a mirror.
I know I sound completely barking bloody mad but I'm getting conscious of it now
My mirror image is ok, my iPhone image is hideous!

Well if people are 6 inches from your face then what they will see is something similar to the image you see on your iPhone. But if people are at a normal distance like a couple of feet away, like you would be in front of a full length mirror, then that will be the perspective they see.

Thanks
Perhaps I'm paranoid?!!
Might be time to get a paper bag?

Stop being hard on yourself, there's no need to be paranoid

I have the same problem with my Samsung galaxy s3 :(