iPhone camera distorting photos of computer screen

It would help if you included a screenshot.

But my guess: Are you very close to the screen when you take the picture? This would make the camera use the wide angle lens, a lens used to pack more space into a picture than normal. If you're very close, then the center of the computer screen is significantly closer to the camera than the sides, so they have a different magnification. It can make pretty funny pictures of faces, where the nose is closer to the lens than the ears! But it's great for getting pictures at a dinner table, maybe, where you can't back away any farther. Fun Houses use convex mirrors to get the same effect.

So-- I think you should move back when you take the picture. That's the best I can do without seeing what you got.

K8-kitty wrote: Your description pretty much matches what I keep getting, so I’ll try moving back next time.

Yes--it looks like moving back should give you the right perceptive, and the detail should be fine.

Have you thought about doing a screenshot on the computer? You would avoid the reflections and the Moiré patterns with the pretty colored lines. Then you can crop the picture to the dimensions you want.

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