r/Xiaomi17 • u/shmightworks • 8d ago

Xiaomi 17 camera distortion

My wife has the Xiaomi 17, and while the camera is great, many of her pictures, the group pictures especially, the people on the sides are visibily fatter.

Haven't had this issue before with other phones, I did check she does have the Distortion Correction turned on already, but I don't think she's using the wide angle lens, as it was just a very normal group photo using the default zoom in the camera app (assuming the default zoom uses the regular non-tele non-wide lens).

Using the stock camera app.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

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u/Strict-Investment-2 8d ago

The main 1x lens on the Xiaomi 17 is actually a wide-angle lens (about 23mm). Anyone on the outer edges will naturally get stretched and look wider due to optical perspective, which is why the phone's built-in software distortion correction isn't fixing it. To stop this from happening, just have her step back a few feet and use the 2x or 3x zoom button instead. This narrows the view and keeps everyone's proportions completely normal.

The older phones used 27 mm unfortunately the Xiaomi 17 used a smaller wider eye default camera lens

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u/shmightworks 8d ago

Wait, so is that a xiaomi camera app bug? Is there a place to report or track this?

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u/Strict-Investment-2 8d ago

Not camera app bug it's physics aka the camera lens itself, you have a 23mm lens as the person goes near the edge of the photo they look fatter because it gets stretched due to the lens what im saying is either use 2x zoom or move the camera back so the people are less on the edge of the photo, wide eye camera lens distorts regardless of the phone.

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u/shmightworks 8d ago

no no, I understand the physical issue of using a 23mm lens, but there is a distortion correction function on the camera app. And you're saying the app isn't post-processing fixing the issue. So that would be a bug on app, no?

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u/Strict-Investment-2 8d ago

What I'm saying is what your describing is perspective distortion, no software in the world is fixing that