camera adds 10 pounds?, sry if there's another topic on this. Options

[left_alone]

Does the camera really add 10 pounds to a person's body?

Just wondering, since everyone else thinks it does.

[*paul murphy*]

Does the camera really add 10 pounds?

Just wondering, since everyone else thinks it does.

((Sorry if there is another topic on this))

Add 10 pounds to what?

[left_alone]

Oh, sorry. To a person's body.

[*paul murphy*]

Oh, sorry. To a person's body.

Like...when holding it? It's just the camera that weighs 10 pounds

[*x____duckii*]

I think it does. Maybe that's why I come out so fat on pictures.

[Eryi]

No Paul, she meant, when you take a picture of someone will you end up (in the picture) looking 10 lbs. bigger/heavier. I don't notice it though.

[iheartjohn]

Probably. Doesn't seem to make me look fat.

[*paul murphy*]

i think that's just something fat celebrities say to make themselves feel better :/

Haha, I second that motion.

[jennyjenny]

It probably does. I took a picture of my math teacher and she's pretty y'know, big. and she looked bigger on camera.

[Kenado]

Don't video cameras also add 10 pounds?

[*lolita kitty*]

nah, i dont think so. my dad always recorded me and my friends on film as a kid, but we never looked fatter..... i dunno =]

[Kenado]

Hmmmm I dont really realize if anyone does get fatter in pictures.

[Fallen Fairy]

I think people just say that sometimes.
However depending on the lens you could look wider.
But i'm no expert.

fallen fairy

[miss barnes]

i dont think its cameras but video cameras

[heyyfrankie]

it's just something bigger people say because they see themselves and it appears that they are bigger than they think. [/sarcasm]

[*paul murphy*]

it's just something bigger people say because they see themselves and it appears that they are bigger than they think.

[The-Mach-Hare]

i agree with the whole celebrity thing...probably because most people will never meet that particular celebrity in their life (unless its oprah) so they just say the camera adds 10 lbs because the viewer will never actually see them up close.

[angel-roh]

it depends on the cameras you're talking about. mine doesnt weigh that much.

mine weighs less than 4 pounds...

[*paul murphy*]

it depends on the cameras you're talking about. mine doesnt weigh that much.

mine weighs less than 4 pounds...

She means it makes u LOOOk 10 pounds heavier.

[left_alone]

She means it makes u LOOOk 10 pounds heavier.

lol

[glit_gal]

I don't think it does...it's an untrue saying.

[Saeglopur]

It's like... the first time you've seen yourself aside from the mirror. The mirror is life-size ... the TV isn't. I don't know. I'm just kidding.

[Looow]

I don't think so. It doesn't make me look 10 punds heavier .

[heyyfrankie]

lol

don't spam. the both of you.

[lakerfever2476]

I think it adds ten pounds when the camera is too close to you.

[xquizit]

I wish. I always look small.

[mouse_3k]

To me, I think it does because I always look bigger in my photos.

[pshaa.shauna]

It think it has to fo with the angle and ghow your posed in the camera, I kno in some pictures I look extremeley big but in others I look petite, it differs.

[Paradox of Life]

i think that's just something fat celebrities say to make themselves feel better :/

Lmao. That works. But there are still a few stars that look anorexic on camera. The camera adds a few pounds on me as well I think it's because it captures the light in a weird way to make you look rounder. I suppose it depends on the camera...?

[*mona lisa*]

"So how many cameras are actually on you?"
Sorry. I had to do that.

I don't think so; at least not on cameras. I still look like a stick on video cameras.

[*Azarel*]

I don't mind either way, for the most part. I don't think cameras really make a difference in how much you appear to weigh; it's just all how photogenic you are.

[emazing]

I don't think it happens to me.

[starlette]

actually, being a person who has her picture taken a lot now, it really does. When I met destinys child, they were a hell of a lot skinnier than they look in pictures. Michelle looked anorexic. But in pics she looks a little more normal. But it definately makes you look bigger. Thats why celebs are sooooo skinny, cuz every where they go, they gain 10 pounds cuz they on video or having their picture taken.

[starlette]

wow, you met destiny's child?
...can i touch you?

haha girl. Maybe we can work it out. I had lunch with them a few years back. *sigh* good times

[aznxdreamer]

i think they do but i dno how.

[xaznxehgix]

i think so too.

[ikayto]

I think just regular camera's have a way of adding pounds. If it's like dark and you use flash, theres like no shadow on you because the flash is that bright; leaving no shadows to show your curves. Or vice versa, too much shadow creates a statue of liberty effect, the shadows streakign from the sides bring more attention to those areas.

BLAH,,,i'm just babbling

^___^

i think they do. oh yeah and the magnification of the lenses. All lenses are different, one just might a little too concave, or too convex. meh......

what do i know

just a physics student........

lol

[ApocalypseAelis]

It's a phrase made up by one or more of the below:

a. insecure people
b. people fishing for compliments
c. people with a distorted image of their body

[shortiiex]

like i think in some pictures cause i had to take a new picture for my new passport and i was faattt

[IamRad]

i was wondering about that the other day hah

i dont think it does

[ikayto]

It's a phrase made up by one or more of the below:

a. insecure people
b. people fishing for compliments
c. people with a distorted image of their body

i agree with you completely, but sometimes it is the camera. Camera's do wonders, ever seen operah ahaha.............

cough*

*awkward silence

[yummy_delight]

i think it does.

then again, i do have a distorted body image and impeccably low self esteem.

[kill me please]

the lens is suppose make it add 10 pounds. but then again i think its just a saying. i dont consider it to add 10 pounds to me.

[enyceXaddiction]

HUH HOW?!?!?!?

[ikayto]

Reminds me of a Goosebumps episode where every time you would take the pictrue a piece of you would fade away..........

and there was a camera that added pounds or something

anyone see that?

like in the 1990s

[steezahh]

i cant tell; but with flash; more of you shows?

[OmG iTs LaUrEn]

i think that's just something fat celebrities say to make themselves feel better :/

me2

[berry_lickable]

yes a 10 pounds camera will add ten pounds ... when you eat it.

[toodlepops.]

Nahh, that's bull.
I don't look 10 pounds heavier on camera.

[jr0h]

maybe some cameras are like that. but yeah i always wondered why i looked so much chubbier in the pictures then i do when i look in the mirror.

[ichiban]

I never really notice. I dont think so ..

[rx_azngirl]

I don't think it does...it's just a saying for people to lose weight..I think.

[duplicatex0x0x0]

lenses have aberrations:chromatic aberration can change color/sharpness; coma aberration which affects images at the edge of a frame; Spherical aberration can distort an image.

Only when camera has a sperical aberration can it make you look 10lbs heavier

[gOODpIRATE]

i don't notice it in pictures of me.

[demolished]

not really. i seen myself taken pictures in front of the mirror. i dont think i can tell the difference. i may be stupid.

[islandkiss]

I believe that it does from experience :X

but that's where Photoshop comes in handy ^^

[b0st0ngrl]

I don't think so..because I used to be on camera a lot for our morning announcements at my middle school and I didn't look 10 pounds heavier..

[EddieV]

It should only add the weight of the camera...

[waitwaitwait]

I'd say it's just a saying so the models on TV will stay so skinny.

[starlette]

so do you normally have lunch with huge celebrities?
or how'd you get the opportunity to do that?

lol hells naw. I did this thing thru the radio where they auctioned off lunch with destinys child and front row tickets and I won. cost me 4500 dollars. I got pictures tho!!

[parallel]

Pssh. I would be pissed if I looked 1o pounds heavier.
I usually look lighter.


Besides my comment.
I'm pretty confused.

[starlette]

^^ that's a lot of money.

was it worth it?

Girl please. u bet it was. that was one of the best days of my life. That was back when my family was rich tho. But yeah, seeing as I'm the huge dc3 fan, I had to win lol. It was actually a suprise. I didnt know about it till I got out of school. I've seen them in concert 4 times, 3 times front row, plus I saw beyonce front row. Too bad now I'm too poor to go to their tour this year. Oh well. BUt yeah, the camera adds 10 pounds cuz they all looked so much skinnier than they do on film. Even beyonce. of course, that was back in the days of bootylicious, when she was a bit bigger, but still...

[xsweetxcandyx]

i look skinnir in pictures

may be it takes away 10 pounds

[heyyfrankie]

haha girl.  Maybe we can work it out.  I had lunch with them a few years back.  *sigh* good times

omg, how did that come about?

EDIT;; nevermind. but that's awesome danelle!!!

This post has been edited by Frankie: Jul 6 2005, 12:13 AM

[pandamonium]

i look a 100x fatter on camera. i guess i was holding 10 cameras at the time.

[[Deep]Thought63]

i don't really think so. but does a camera really weigh that much, i don't think so.

[jue]

i dont see any difference in me or my friends/family in picture. They lok the same.

[Gypsy Eyes]

I do modeling and trust me the camera can make you look soo much heavier depending on the angle the picture/video is taken from.