Like you have a light source in your phone display. Your left and right eye display different location. Just as your normal view because it just combines both imagines. Is the combined image the true position of the reflected structure?
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In: Physics
The shortest answer is this: cameras do not perfectly represent real life. All the interpretation of that data happens in your brain, not in the camera. That process is prone to mistakes, which is why optical illusions exist.
Photographs are not your eyes. Depending on the camera, objects might get squished together, spread out, stretched in one dimension or many dimensions, etc.
Your camera also only has one image, whereas your vision has two. With only one image, there is *no* depth. Objects in photos are only as big or small as they look depending on context.
For example, you see a photo of somebody [holding up the Tower of Piza](https://manasupaluku.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/andrew-holding-up-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa-photo-by-tarcisio-arzuffi1.jpg). Is that:
– a photo of a really big person holding up a normal sized building?
– a photo of a normal-sized person holding up a small model of a building?
– a photo of a normal-sized person standing very far away from a normal-sized building and pretending to hold it up?
From a camera, you can’t *really* tell. They all look the same. Your brain is good at using context clues to interpret distance, but that is prone to mistakes.
So an object in a photo might not be exactly where it appears to be, depending on the arrangement of the photo and the camera that took it.
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