Well the bashers and trolls actually have a gala time saying Apple doesn't offer choice.. Here where they actually do they get bashed again.....
...I don't get it either but I can't blame Apple.
Apple is at least enabling it.My wife does that crap all the time. Drives me crazy and tell her all the time then she just does the same thing. I don't get it either but I can't blame Apple.
....but you can blame Apple. Had they made it landscape video recording while holding vertical from the beginning (Google would have followed) this argument would be mute. No one ever would even imagine portrait video as they never had in the past.
I did say default. Apple could offer a toggle to cut Portrait on. Here is a quick list of facts.
Aspect Ratios
Eyes (average) field of vision (most natural to us).
1.87:1
1.33:1 (aka:4x3) 35mm film/SDTV
1.78:1 (aka:16x9) HDTV
2.35:1 Widescreen movies
0.56:1 iPhone held vertical
HDTV resolution 1920x1080
iPhone vertical 1080x1920
1920 must be scaled down to1080 to fit so iPhone image becomes 608x1080. This means 1312 out of 1920 vertical lines are black. Plus down scaling adds video artifacts (especially odd amounts).
It would be super easy for Apple to implement landscape recording regardless how you hold your iPhone. Also once Apple does it Google will follow.
Click on the link for Apple iPhone Feedback and voice your concern.
Yeah, they could do what you want easily via software, but then you'd end up with a lower res video when holding portrait recording landscape. As the current camera sensor is rectangular....
Either way, if you don't want a lower res video, you are out of luck with you're current iPhone as it would be a hardware fix.
HTH
When I watch videos on my phone I turn it sideways to view them in landscape as video content is generally meant to be seen pretty much across any medium.People going on about having to scale down vertical images so they fit on a TV screen or monitor... ever think that sometimes people record stuff just to play back on their phone or send to other people's phones?
Control freaks.
And how would that work if you had any normal camera (rather than a camera phone)
And how would that work if you had any normal camera (rather than a camera phone)What I was trying to say by that is that until the cell phone camera of convenience and even beyond it any actual normal camera seems to only record in the normal accepted landscape format and not in some sort of vertical format that really only came about because of essentially a mistake or laziness or cost cutting or just convenience factor of it all specifically for mobile phones and not because the format actually makes sense or has something to it (otherwise it would have existed in a fairly widespread existence long before).It would depend on the focal length of the lens, specifically how far down it would go. I have a couple of video cameras in the basement that haven't been used for years and I don't know if they would be wide-angle enough.
For still photography I had everything from a fish-eye to 1000mm. Of course that meant a bag of lenses and for every pic I'd have had to make sure I had the right lens.
And how would that work if you had any normal camera (rather than a camera phone)What I was trying to say by that is that until the cell phone camera of convenience and even beyond it any actual normal camera seems to only record in the normal accepted landscape format and not in some sort of vertical format that really only came about because of essentially a mistake or laziness or cost cutting or just convenience factor of it all specifically for mobile phones and not because the format actually makes sense or has something to it (otherwise it would have existed in a fairly widespread existence long before).
Ah, gotcha. All I can say is it's the camera I have now and it produces two results and one of them infuriates folks.![]()
One cool way to implement this would be to crop the image to landscape when you try to film in portrait mode. It would actually be useful as a "digital zoom" when you want to get a closer shot of something farther away (at lower resolution of course).
Two words for portrait photographers looking for room in their frame........back. up.