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iPhone 4 camera: 6.7MP, not 5MP?

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samiznaetekto

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iPhone takes 2592 x 1936 pics in either orientation, so its sensor is square 2592x2592 = 6.7MP.

Why not have an option to shoot square 6.7MP photos? Can be useful for cropping later, or sometimes 1:1 aspect ratio is dictated by the subject (e.g. taking a pic of a square map for reference).

I wonder if full 6.7MP resolution is accessible via iOS4 API? Developers?
 
Uh, how did you come up with that?

It's 5MP, the sensor also rotates so you either get a wide rectangle or a tall rectangle...
 
samiznaetekto said:
iPhone takes 2592 x 1936 pics in either orientation, so its sensor is square 2592x2592 = 6.7MP.

Why not have an option to shoot square 6.7MP photos? Can be useful for cropping later, or sometimes 1:1 aspect ratio is dictated by the subject (e.g. taking a pic of a square map for reference).

I wonder if full 6.7MP resolution is accessible via iOS4 API? Developers?
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FAIL
 
reservedegotist said:
It's 5MP, the sensor also rotates so you either get a wide rectangle or a tall rectangle...
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Do we need an ORLY graphic? This doesn't sound right to me any more than the OP's claim.

The sensor doesn't rotate, the camera's orientation is recorded with the image so that it displays properly.

I think.
 
spblat said:
Do we need an ORLY graphic? This doesn't sound right to me any more than the OP's claim.

The sensor doesn't rotate, the camera's orientation is recorded with the image so that it displays properly.

I think.
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...of course the sensor rotates. It is a vertical rectangle when the phone is in portrait orientation, and becomes a horizontal rectangle when the phone is in landscape orientation. It is attached to the phone. It rotates with the phone. That's why you get landscape pictures when you turn your phone to the side, and portrait pictures when you just hold your phone normally.
 
spblat said:
Do we need an ORLY graphic? This doesn't sound right to me any more than the OP's claim.

The sensor doesn't rotate, the camera's orientation is recorded with the image so that it displays properly.

I think.
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The sensor is fixed within the phone. This means that when the phone is rotated, the sensor rotates with it.

Therefore the sensor is either 2592 x 1936 or 1936 x 2592 depending on how the phone is being held.
 
samiznaetekto said:
iPhone takes 2592 x 1936 pics in either orientation, so its sensor is square 2592x2592 = 6.7MP.

Why not have an option to shoot square 6.7MP photos? Can be useful for cropping later, or sometimes 1:1 aspect ratio is dictated by the subject (e.g. taking a pic of a square map for reference).

I wonder if full 6.7MP resolution is accessible via iOS4 API? Developers?
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haha thats stupid and wrong:)
 
admanimal said:
The sensor is fixed within the phone. This means that when the phone is rotated, the sensor rotates with it.

Therefore the sensor is either 2592 x 1936 or 1936 x 2592 depending on how the phone is being held.
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That is much clearer than what I was trying to say. It is 88 degrees in my office. Time to go be somewhere else!
 
spblat said:
Do we need an ORLY graphic? This doesn't sound right to me any more than the OP's claim.

The sensor doesn't rotate, the camera's orientation is recorded with the image so that it displays properly.

I think.
Click to expand...
Huh?
orly.png
 
spblat said:
That is much clearer than what I was trying to say. It is 88 degrees in my office. Time to go be somewhere else!
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My brain apparently overheated in 101 degrees F. And I got my iPhone 4 today. Too much to handle...
 
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