I doubt you are getting a true 16:9. The sensor is probably scaled to 4:3, with other options being simply a digital zoom/crop.
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iPhone 5 Camera pics not full screen?
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I doubt you are getting a true 16:9. The sensor is probably scaled to 4:3, with other options being simply a digital zoom/crop.
That's correct. Sensors in phones are 4:3 and a 16:9 is just cropping the top and bottom bits off to achieve a wider ratio.
AFAIK, my iPhone 4/4S also displays taken-photos zoomed-in a little bit.
If I completely zoom out, I would get black bars at the top and bottom.
Interesting. I just tried this on my 4S and indeed there are black bars on the top and bottom if I zoom completely out. This means that photos are zoomed to full screen by default. I wonder why this behavior has changed?
The bottom line is there is no sane reason this is not a user selectable option.
There is no reason the camera app shouldn't allow you to set the desired aspect ratio and there is no reason you shouldn't be able to dial in exposure compensation, or desired resolution. It's odd that you can crop to whatever ratio you want after the fact, but it has to be done to each individual picture -- a time consuming process.
This is particularly disappointing when one of the big selling points (for me at least) was the airplay capability. Projecting 4:3 pictures onto my 16:9 flatscreen TV is underwhelming.
There is no reason the camera app shouldn't allow you to set the desired aspect ratio and there is no reason you shouldn't be able to dial in exposure compensation, or desired resolution. It's odd that you can crop to whatever ratio you want after the fact, but it has to be done to each individual picture -- a time consuming process.
This is particularly disappointing when one of the big selling points (for me at least) was the airplay capability. Projecting 4:3 pictures onto my 16:9 flatscreen TV is underwhelming.
I agree. I took some awesome sunset pictures tonight and displayed them on my HDTV via AirPlay. 4:3 was a bummer.
So take a panorama shot instead.
It's apple's way of giving us that option I guess. Obviously not my preferred method because who know what aspect ratio you'll end up with. I think I'll send some feedback about this request and maybe, just maybe they'll add in an option later on down the road.
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Why don't you take the pic in 4:3 and zoom in yourself if you want to fill the screen? Or crop it to 16:9. What are we talking about again?
Give the screen a spread!!! Geez! It's an 8mp camera. Just spread it out until it fills the screen. Dang you people are picky and full of complaints & Never satisfied.
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Sorry! The imaging sensor is not shapped that way. It is more square than rectangle. The only camera that comes close is the the Mamiya RB67 which is a 6x7cm film camera. My Nikon D800e, which is a pro camera with 36.3mp will not even shoot at that format.
And the photos are 6mp as opposed to 8.
there will be a tweak when the iphone 5 is jailbroken im sure of that.
Yeah you can. View the image, tap "Edit", tap the crop button, tap "restrict dimensions", choose "16x9". Cameras that have a 16:9 option do this automatically, but it's the same process.
iPhone five shoots video in 16 x 9 aspect ratio therefore the only way you can take a widescreen shot is by capturing a photo whilst shooting a video this works for me check out the photo quality isn't that great but it's still good at my mums 46 inch fullscreen Samsung TV
Fact is those "Standards" were ill-conceived to begin with and should have been thrown away years ago. 4x6 is a 1:1.5 ratio, 5x7 is 1:1.4, and 8x10 is 1:1.25. As you enlarge the photo, more and more of it gets cropped off.
35mm still negatives are 1:1.5 (24mmx36mm). 4x6 works with that, but it should be 5x7.5 and 8x12 to properly scale.
But....
Hey, this is all well and good and I realize there are ways that users have suggested to show 16:9 landscape and 3:2 portrait full screen ratios but, that's CROPPING the photo. Why would I want to crop the photo?? In no way am I complaining, but for those of us who choose to use regular CAMERAS for photography (including print) and want to use our phones forlet's say displaying images on our phones (without cropping them), then what are alternatives??
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Hey, this is all well and good and I realize there are ways that users have suggested to show 16:9 landscape and 3:2 portrait full screen ratios but, that's CROPPING the photo. Why would I want to crop the photo?? In no way am I complaining, but for those of us who choose to use regular CAMERAS for photography (including print) and want to use our phones forlet's say displaying images on our phones (without cropping them), then what are alternatives??
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Yep. Most motorola phones (like the Atrix 2) have a 6MP shooting mode that shoot pictures in widescreen. Personally, I don't like it at all. I usually switch to 8MP
This is a good option. I didn't realize it was there (thank you!) Also, stretching the photo via zoom works too. Single tap restores it to original aspect.
I had this same "issue" when I first got the 5. But it makes complete sense now. SLRs shoot in 3:2 and the 5's ratio is 16:9, and the 4/4S is 4:3. So pictures will look different depending on the "monitor" you are using.
Many phones does have the option to take photos in widescreen(obviously the resolution is lower. If the phone has a 8MP camera widescreen photos are of 6/5MP). I don't know if there is any option to capture widescreen photo in iPhone 5.