2y ago

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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This. I always make sure to check the maximum aspect ratio of cameras I use. No point in wasting pixels and field of view.
@Zak@lemmy.world do you have a source for this?
- You can check it yourself, just set ratio to 3:4, aim camera so some object will be in corner, and then change to 9:16/full, or whatever that's bigger. You will see that the object won't be visible. And sorry if I made a language mistake.
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.
  
  I get it and I've always known. I just prefer 16:9 photos because... Well, my screen and monitors, and TV are 16:9 so why not take photos that (by default) fill the screens?
  Nothing more annoying than showing an album to friends over Chromecast on your TV and the photos don't fill the screen.

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