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Panasonic 42.5 - 1.7 lens makes me look fat !

Started Dec 20, 2018 | Discussions thread
AminF Contributing Member • Posts: 655
Re: Panasonic 42.5 - 1.7 lens makes me look fat !

I think that's exactly what it is.

The position and lens focal length of the average "selfie" gives a totally distorted view of what we actually look like. 
Get someone to take your phone 15 feet away from you and take a photo and your face will look fatter than when you take it yourself.

That's the reason I've just ordered an ultrawide angle lens - for my own selfies!! 

jaeae wrote:

Tom Axford wrote:

Have a look at this tutorial which gives some examples of using lenses with different ...

Tom's link is good advice!

To achieve "undistorted" classic portrait view you should use perhaps 45 - 90 mm equivalent lenses.

I wonder how much of this "makes you look fat" is because people have accustomed to wideangle views that tend to make one look thinner. Cell phones generally have wideangle lenses, something between 24 .. 30 mm equivalent.

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