Something modest about working on the Internet He is thinking You save with the latest trends. I spend my work And Personal life is online, so I have to be neat, right? Wrong of course. Case in point: selfie 0.5 (pronounced as the fifth point or sometimes zero point five). did you hear about it? neither do I. But it is not newSo let’s catch up.
Over the weekend, I was out with friends and family and To document the moment with some selfies, as you do. But after taking what I thought were enough pictures, one of us –Zoomer—Taking from her phone, he saidAnd one personal photo of size 0.5. the rest of us (millennials) He had no clue what a 0.5 selfie was like. (dont feelug, Gen Z. someday soonYou will also lose contact with whats amazing slaughter.)
Anyway, she turned her phone over, took a picture, and showed us: We all looked so young, while the space around us compressed. Perhaps the most notable was that her arm appeared road longer than it actually was. Everything clicked: Selfie 0.5, of course, is a selfie taken With the 0.5x Ultra Wide Angle Camera on your phone. Whoever named this thing knows what they’re doing.
A little background on ultra wide cameras
Ultra wide angle cameras produce a much different image than your standard or zoom lens. They’re designed with a large field of view, in order to take in more of your surroundings. The iPhone’s ultra wide-angle camera, for example, It has a field of view of 120 degrees. Some manufacturers call this a “0.5x zoom,” since the lens captures more of the scene than a 1x zoom camera (although these cameras Not actually getting old in the traditional sense of the term).
These lenses It wasn’t always a part of iPhones or smartphones in general. the The LG G5 started a massive craze in 2016Since then, smartphone manufacturers have added it. in the United States.s.iPhone is king, so it only makes sense that the technology would have exploded at once Apple introduced it with the iPhone 11. Since then, if you bought an iPhone or other device Android phone In the market, you had access to an ultra wide camera and, accordingly, the ability to take 0.5 selfies.
0.5 selfies are supposed to look weird
In practice, the best-looking ultra-wide shots are Landscape: You can fit a lot of scenery into your photo without noticeable distortion. However, due to how these lenses work, the closer you are to the subject, the greater the distortion, almost creating a “fish-eye” effect. Anything close to the lens gets stretched and twisted, so if you’re trying to take a traditionally flattering shot, you won’t be using 0.5x for objectives, or even averaging your photo out. It’s more common in style shots. This style has It just happened to grab Gen Z.
Gravity 0.5 selfie He is distortion. Sure, it’s a good thing the ultra-wide camera can have it all (and everyone) In the shot, but a regular selfie can also be taken. The 0.5x camera makes it look like a selfie stick crazy. Makes anyone close to the lens look funny. It makes selfies more interesting, and it’s even more fun to look back on those shots in your camera roll or your Instagram.
How do you take 0.5 selfies?
Applying a 0.5 selfie is easy enough: You open the camera app, then switch to the 0.5 wide-angle camera. Now, flip your phone so that it faces the rear cameras, raise your phone, and take a selfie using the volume button. (If it’s a little tricky, use your camera app’s timer.) You won’t be able to see what you’re shooting, of course, but that’s part of the fun: Your slightly exaggerated shots will return (and the arm will look like a human selfie stick).
0.5 selfies is nothing new
Now, I was thinking I’d found a new trend, and you might be reading this thinking I also learned something new. Unfortunately this Not the bag, not the case. A quick Google search for “0.5 selfie” He reveals that this type of shooting was actually Part of the entire online discussion year since. This leads me to believe it was pretty cool before that. So, be precise: don’t go telling the speakers in your life about this “fun new selfie.” You will laugh outside the room. But at least You wouldn’t be surprised if someone asked to take a “0.5 selfie” during your next family gathering. Hell, surprise everyone by suggesting you take one yourself.
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