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sdifox

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Vertical video almost always sucks because we live on a horizontal plane and the horizontal viewing angle sucks vertically. No reason to accept shitty video just because people are too lazy to turn their phones.
I don't get why that is not built into software. The sensors are certainly good enough even if you rotate the image while holding it vertical.
 
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Zorba

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I don't get why that is not built into aoftware. The sensors are certainly good enough even if you rotate the image while holding it vertical.
Yeah, I agree, which was my original post. The sensors are big enough to support and the phone knows it's orientation, shouldn't be hard to implement.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
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I don't get why that is not built into aoftware. The sensors are certainly good enough even if you rotate the image while holding it vertical.
For the exact reason @IronWing initially said - these videos are mainly consumed on phones being held vertically. They want to be recorded at the full resolution to fill the screen. Not at some resolution that will be cropped and fill 1/3 of the vertical screen and be tiny when viewed vertically.

This is not a hard concept to grasp.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
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For the exact reason @IronWing initially said - these videos are mainly consumed on phones being held vertically. They want to be recorded at the full resolution to fill the screen. Not at some resolution that will be cropped and fill 1/3 of the vertical screen and be tiny when viewed vertically.

This is not a hard concept to grasp.

Camera sensor can take a rectangular image that can be cropped horizontally or vertically.
 

Ajay

Lifer
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The sensors on iPhones are rectangular, but not of the same aspect as the phone screen. It looks to be a 3:4 ratio when I enlarged this photo:
iPhone12_camera_sensor.png
 

dank69

Lifer
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PsoKbTV.jpeg
 

Zorba

Lifer
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For the exact reason @IronWing initially said - these videos are mainly consumed on phones being held vertically. They want to be recorded at the full resolution to fill the screen. Not at some resolution that will be cropped and fill 1/3 of the vertical screen and be tiny when viewed vertically.

This is not a hard concept to grasp.
For the exact reason @IronWing initially said - these videos are mainly consumed on phones being held vertically. They want to be recorded at the full resolution to fill the screen. Not at some resolution that will be cropped and fill 1/3 of the vertical screen and be tiny when viewed vertically.

This is not a hard concept to grasp.
Not sure about your phone, but mine turns into landscape. And I'd still much rather watch landscaped video on my phone than vertical. Because again, we live in a horizontal world.
 

kage69

Lifer
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Well Florida, Texas and Louisiana could certainly learn from the Dutch then.

Good thing they waited until it was cheap to build stuff.
 
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