The only difference between a mirror and a camera is that you are reversed in the mirror. Otherwise, they are both just as “accurate.” Here's the thing: the camera/mirror doesn't matter. Distance matters.
The mirror image is a virtual image. The camera image is real.
The answer is simple: Mirrors. There's a difference between your image in the mirror and in photos. The image you see in the mirror is reversed compared to the image that others see face-to-face with you.
Hold two hand mirrors in front of you with their edges touching and a right angle between them like the two covers of a book when you're reading. With a little adjustment you can get a complete reflection of your face as others see it. Wink with your right eye. The person in the mirror winks his or her right eye.
Neither is very accurate. A mirror shows a reversed image of your face, and our faces are subtly asymmetrical. Therefore, a mirror image will always look slightly different from how we appear to other people - in that regard a photo is more accurate.
One major factor is that photos generally show us the reverse of what we see in the mirror. When you take a photo of yourself using some (but not all) apps or the front-facing camera on an iPhone, the resulting image captures your face as others see it. The same is true for non-phone cameras.
People see you inverted in real life, or the opposite of your mirror image. When you look in a mirror, what you're actually seeing is a reversed image of yourself. As you're hanging out with friends or walking down the street, people see your image un-flipped.
The image formed by a plane mirror is always virtual (meaning that the light rays do not actually come from the image), upright, and of the same shape and size as the object it is reflecting. A virtual image is a copy of an object formed at the location from which the light rays appear to come.
What is a Non-Reversing Mirror? A non-reversing mirror, also known as a True Mirror, allows you to see something as though you were looking directly at it, instead of its mirrored image.
When you take a picture of yourself in the mirror, you are taking your mirrored image and flipping it, which if what you most accurately look like in real life. Of course, depending on the mirror it can add a tad bit of distortion or strange reflections of light, but overall, yeah they're accurate.
Relax! You will be relieved to know that when other people look at you in real life, they are more likely to see what you see when you look in a mirror (without the reversal) rather than what you look like on phone pictures.
Paskhover and colleagues explain in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery that the distortion happens in selfies because the face is such a short distance from the camera lens. In a recent study, they calculated distortion of facial features at different camera distances and angles.
The camera lens is not the human eye
That results in all sorts of weird idiosyncrasies. It's called lens distortion and it can render your nose, eyes, hips, head, chest, thighs and all the rest of it marginally bigger, smaller, wider or narrower than they really are.
Back camera is how you look from other people, and typically shot from distance people normally see you, so perspective will be also likely going to be close.
the pictures taken by the back one often shows my eyes are proportionally smaller. Also the front camera seems to produce completely dark pictures when the lighting isn't good, while the back camera can still produce clearer pictures.
Mirrors physically reflect light and our surroundings. Light indicates illumination, consciousness, knowledge, and other spiritual concepts. Mirrors thus reflect truth in terms of spiritual symbolism. They represent reality.
The best example of a virtual image is your reflection in the mirror. Real images are produced by intersecting rays while virtual images are produced by diverging rays. Real images can be projected on a screen while virtual ones cannot.
A camera has only "one eye", so photography flattens images in a way that mirrors do not. Also, depending on the focal length and distance from the subject, the lens can create unflattering geometric distortions.
Put simply, light beams from every point on your face travel to the mirror, where they are reflected. Some of those reflected beams will travel towards your eyes where they will be detected. The image that you see has two interesting features: The image of your face appears to be behind the mirror.
In short, what you see in the mirror is nothing but a reflection and that may just not be how people see you in real life. In real life, the picture may be completely different. All you have to do is stare at a selfie camera, flip and capture your photo. That's what you really look like.
People see the same as the camera sees, because camera designers have chosen it to be that way. We want the camera to show what we would see if we are positioned where the camera is.
Prosopometamorphopsia is a visual disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. Facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.
Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder are compulsively drawn to the mirror, checking the mirror to ease their fears about how they think they look or continuously checking to see if their perceived deformity is still there or has become worse.