My GS3 lets you choose between 16:9 or 4:3 pics. Iphone users are not even given choice.
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.
My GS3 lets you choose between 16:9 or 4:3 pics. Iphone users are not even given choice.
I agree with the OP. I would like my pictures to fit the whole widescreen. This is lame and the pics look small and weird now.
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.
It makes me sad that, after more than a century of photography, some children on the internet think that established standards should be thrown away because of the shape of a cell phone screen.
Never mind what happens when people try to get their photos made into prints and find that no photo print shops, frames, or albums are suited for these hypothetical 16x9 photos. Some black boarders on the screen are confusing to people, apparently, but that wouldn't be?
4x6?
8x10?
5x7?
I think Apple should have made the photos zoom by default so that they fill the screen. Then a double tap could bring them back to their actual size. As it is now most people will be simply confused by this.
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.
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.
I agree. I took some awesome sunset pictures tonight and displayed them on my HDTV via AirPlay. 4:3 was a bummer.
I think Apple should have made the photos zoom by default so that they fill the screen. Then a double tap could bring them back to their actual size. As it is now most people will be simply confused by this.
I agree with the OP. I would like my pictures to fit the whole widescreen. This is lame and the pics look small and weird now.
I want to take the picture like this ratio with my camera but can't
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.
I want to take the picture like this ratio with my camera but can't
It makes me sad that, after more than a century of photography, some children on the internet think that established standards should be thrown away because of the shape of a cell phone screen.
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4x6?
8x10?
5x7?
Is any of this ringing a bell?
The only phone I am aware of that shoots widescreen photos as an option is the Droid Razr Maxx.
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.
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.
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.