You’ll be surprised to learn that doesn’t work without some amazing tech to process the photons. Different settings will produce a different photo.
Hell, just changing focal length makes a bigg difference to what your face looks like: https://imgur.io/gallery/ZKTWi no digital manipulation required.
Which of those faces is “real”? They’re all just recording photons hitting the camera, but look very different.
It gets even worse when we start talking about colors. For example: it took cameras decades before they could accurately capture black faces. Where accurately means “an average person would say it looks right”
