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@BasedLunatic
Just to be clear, I hate both of these. I hate that we've normalized faking photos. I already hated the over-processed approach Apple always took with their cameras, as a means to compensate for lower megapixel count, but the more recent filtering and AI stuff... it is Satanic in my eyes. I'd rather take photos with the most potato budget phone on the market than with either of these.
@BasedLunatic
> I don’t know what causes this distortion of face in the camera on phones
Post-processing. Processing, processing and more processing. You can't do most of it with video, because the CPU can't do it fast enough for 30-60 frames per second. But for a single photo? It's gonna have a second of spare time until it needs to write in on disk. More than enough to make you look thinner, your skin look smoother, etc., so it can enable your vanity, make you post on Instagram, and because you get likes for your nice looking ultraprocessed photos, it triggers your lizard brain to associate photos taken with Samsung, Apple, Huawei, etc. to attention, happiness, pleasure. So next time you change your phone, you'll buy Samsung, Apple, Huawei again, because you remember just how good your pictures with that phone were, because you did got so many Instagram likes.
