LAst week I got my first smart phone - the iPhone 5S. When I take a picture with the so called "8 megapixel" camera, the photo does not fill up the entire screen when viewing - as if a lower megapixel sized picture was taken. I can't find anything in Settings to change -is this the way it's suppose to be? Thanks.
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Is there a megapixel camera setting for iPhone 5S?
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What "screen" are you referring to? The screen on the 5s, or a computer screen? If you're referring to the phone's screen, a photo won't fill up the whole screen without zooming in because the resolution of the photo is different than the resolution of the phone screen. There's no settings or anything that would cause your phone to take lower quality photos.
No problem. Also, as a rule of thumb, don't ever actually use the zoom function on the camera app while taking a photo. That's just a digital zoom (not an optical zoom) which will lead to lower quality images. Take a normal photo and then edit/crop later to blow it up to the size you want.