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YSK: Your phone camera's aspect ratio is 4:3; setting it to anything else crops your photos

Why YSK: I've been seeing an increasing number of phone photos shared online in 9:16, 9:21 or similarly tall aspect ratios, often with parts of the subject cut off. I've asked a few people why they cropped their images that way, and none of them knew they were cropped.

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  • Buttttt I like 16:9 better

    • Nobody is telling you what to like, just how your phone camera functions.

      Now if we're doing photo critique, I might tell you a 9:16 portriat orientation photo of your cat with half its ear cropped out on the side but a whole bunch of the floor included in the foreground looks poorly composed, but cropping to 16:9 in some other context might exclude some uninteresting clutter and improve the photo.

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