Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
But When I do take a selfie, it somehow bounces back, after when taking a poloriad in reverse, from what the camera app takes a photograph, like there is a mirror or something build within..
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Not so sure if this is all phones...
- Thread starter Milo Willamson
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It's not all phones - I never take selfies, but i just used the front camera to photograph the scene in front of me and it wasn't reversed.
All I can suggest is that you go through the camera app's settings and see whether there is anything that lets you choose whether you get normal or mirror selfies. Or use any photo editing app to flip them horizontally afterwards.
All I can suggest is that you go through the camera app's settings and see whether there is anything that lets you choose whether you get normal or mirror selfies. Or use any photo editing app to flip them horizontally afterwards.
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
Alright i will try Snapseed see if that will work
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
I am guessing because of the entire cameras in the world, you can never see your real face.
Actually what's really weird about my pixel's camera is that when you turn the front camera on it displays a "mirror" image on the screen, but when you take the picture that is the correct way round! This is clearly deliberate - it requires that they reverse the image for the preview, so additional processing to do that - but I can't for the life of me work out why. But maybe if I took selfies it would be more obvious to me...
The vast majority of the time that people spend looking at themselves is done with a mirror, which flips the image horizontally. Because of that, most people perfer their mirrored appearance, not their real, un-flipped appearance that the rest of the world sees.
So, the front facing camera is showing you what you would expect to see in a mirror. Most people are happier with selfies taken that way.
So, the front facing camera is showing you what you would expect to see in a mirror. Most people are happier with selfies taken that way.
Except the actual photo is not mirrored, just the preview. It's why they do that that puzzles me.
I hope it's because they have done some study that showed that most people found framing easier with the mirrored view, rather than the whim or pet theory of some designer. I can sort of see how that might be for some people: if I had poor spatial visualisation I could see that the person on my left appearing on the right of the preview might confuse me. Personally I find it more confusing than showing a preview of the actual image, because I expect it to have a rotated perspective rather than a mirrored one (and find "what you see is not what you get" odd).
Not that it matters, because I only discovered it now while playing about while reading this thread. I'm one of those odd people who would happily buy a phone with no front camera. But if I used it I'd find it really weird and annoying if it actually took mirrored photos (I have a friend with one arm, who could illustrate the problem with that very clearly
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I hope it's because they have done some study that showed that most people found framing easier with the mirrored view, rather than the whim or pet theory of some designer. I can sort of see how that might be for some people: if I had poor spatial visualisation I could see that the person on my left appearing on the right of the preview might confuse me. Personally I find it more confusing than showing a preview of the actual image, because I expect it to have a rotated perspective rather than a mirrored one (and find "what you see is not what you get" odd).
Not that it matters, because I only discovered it now while playing about while reading this thread. I'm one of those odd people who would happily buy a phone with no front camera. But if I used it I'd find it really weird and annoying if it actually took mirrored photos (I have a friend with one arm, who could illustrate the problem with that very clearly
).
FWIW I used to have a Samsung that took mirror image selfies. Other phones I've had have been aright in this respect.
Like this is not really Russian Cyrillic at Moscow Airport.
Like this is not really Russian Cyrillic at Moscow Airport.
LG gives you the option how to save the front facing camera images.
While I don't know if any direct research was done to favor the flipped image display for the "selfie" preview, I do know that when a front-facing camera displays the actual image it seems counter intuitive to frame the image.
While I don't know if any direct research was done to favor the flipped image display for the "selfie" preview, I do know that when a front-facing camera displays the actual image it seems counter intuitive to frame the image.
Ease of framing is a good point. I think I would still intiutitvely expect it to behave like a mirror, even though I understand why that's artficial.
Photographs containing text, or other non-mirrorable objects, are a good justification for saving the image the real way around.
Photographs containing text, or other non-mirrorable objects, are a good justification for saving the image the real way around.
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
I do not see that on my Moto Z2 force though...
droidros
Android Enthusiast
My camera app gives the option to take the mirrored picture but I don't want that. I have been searching for an app that shows the on screen preview image as non-mirrored - i.e. the way other people see you and the way the default picture will actually look. I know how I look in the mirror and that is not the same as how others see me. I also want other people and objects to appear on the correct side and writing to not be mirrored.
You are right. All phones don't do that.