Samsung S7 Selfie Camera WTF?!!?

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Hi guys, I just bought the Samsung S7 phone for my girlfriend,

as "the best phone" on the market at the moment.

 

WOW We're disappointed :o.

 

There is something majorly wrong with the selfie camera.

 When you turn the phone downwards, you forehead becomes gigantic.

Turn it upwars, your face looks like a moai statue.

 

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What the actual fuck is going on? - If they did in on purpose, why the actual FUCK would they do it on purpose?

 

Excuse the language.

[DevilishBooster]

Welcome to the world of fish-eye wide angle lenses. It's not a faulty phone, they're all like that. Linus even mentioned it in today's video, the review of the LG G5. Either learn to live with it or return the phone and get something else.

[mikat]

they used a fisheye lens, to get a wider shot

 

[SeanAngelo]

4 minutes ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

Hi guys, I just bought the Samsung S7 phone for my girlfriend,

as "the best phone" on the market at the moment.

 

WOW We're disappointed :o.

 

There is something majorly wrong with the selfie camera.

 When you turn the phone downwards, you forehead becomes gigantic.

Turn it upwars, your face looks like a moai statue.

 

---------------iMPROPER LANGUAGE INCOMING----------------

 

What the actual fuck is going on? - If they did in on purpose, why the actual FUCK would they do it on purpose?

 

Excuse the language.

 

this doesnt have it?

[byalexandr]

Pull it farther from your face as to reduce the effect the fisheye lens has. Then crop afterwards if your subject is too small in the original photo.

[NumLock21]

So you've basically just spend $800 on a portable fun house mirror.

[vanished]

Yup, everyone has already explained that it's a very wide angle lens.  It's common knowledge (at least among photographers) that when doing portraits, you actually want to be rather far away and zoom in with something like a 70 - 200mm in order to compress the facial features and avoid the nose-bulge syndrome, but obviously that's not possible on a phone 2 feet from your face.

[Mew]

Have you tried turning off all the beauty features? 

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

11 hours ago, SeanAngelo said:

 

this doesnt have it?

because this doofus is always in the center of the screen. as soon as you're in the top or bottom, it happens.

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

6 hours ago, kurahk7 said:

Have you tried turning off all the beauty features? 

I think she has. It's in the lens itself  So disappointing. 

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3 minutes ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

I think she has. It's in the lens itself  So disappointing. 

You could try processing the image to convert from the fish eye effect to a rectilinear projection.  It may help you avoid the nose bulge, but be aware that features near the edge of the image will be stretched instead and may lead to a case of alien-forehead  

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

You could try processing the image to convert from the fish eye effect to a rectilinear projection.  It may help you avoid the nose bulge, but be aware that features near the edge of the image will be stretched instead and may lead to a case of alien-forehead  

how? 

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1 minute ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

how? 

I don't know any off the top of my head but I'm sure there are free tools for it.  I'm pretty sure that photoshop/camera raw/lightroom can do this inherently as part of the lens distortion correction feature, but those are expensive of course and may not have a profile for your lens, meaning you'd need to play with sliders to get the right effect.

[electrolux]

Yes, it's called a fish eye lens, the G5 doesn't have it.

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

1 hour ago, electrolux said:

Yes, it's called a fish eye lens, the G5 doesn't have it.

it's freaking stupid as a selfie camera.

[SeanAngelo]

10 hours ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

because this doofus is always in the center of the screen. as soon as you're in the top or bottom, it happens.

do an example, maybe that would help...

[Rodinski]

On 6/9/2016 at 11:20 PM, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

I think she has. It's in the lens itself  So disappointing. 

Did they not include a feature to account for lens distortion or am I just thinking of Photoshop?

 

I'll check my S7 tomorrow.

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

14 hours ago, Rodinski said:

Did they not include a feature to account for lens distortion or am I just thinking of Photoshop?

 

I'll check my S7 tomorrow.

Did you find out anything?

[Rodinski]

37 minutes ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

Did you find out anything?

Top right there is a "effects" option.  It has a face correction option.  Doesn't correct as much as I hope but it seems good at doing a bit!

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

16 hours ago, Rodinski said:

Top right there is a "effects" option.  It has a face correction option.  Doesn't correct as much as I hope but it seems good at doing a bit!

I already found this, and applied it. and as you mentioned. it doesn't seem to be doing as much as we hoped for either.

[Rodinski]

39 minutes ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

I already found this, and applied it. and as you mentioned. it doesn't seem to be doing as much as we hoped for either.

I guess we'll just have to take selfies further away and crop. 

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

On 13/6/2016 at 4:11 PM, Rodinski said:

I guess we'll just have to take selfies further away and crop. 

Good luck doing that on snapchat lol

[vanished]

On 6/13/2016 at 8:11 AM, Rodinski said:

I guess we'll just have to take selfies further away and crop. 

On a phone picture?  Oh god please no my eyes   Just get one of those narcissisticks and a phone with a more tele lens