I was at an electronics store today and was able to try the iPhone 5 for the first time.
If I took a photo in landscape mode I noticed that it was letter-boxed, even when looked at in the Photo app.
Is it not possible to take a photo the full size of the screen? Is that perhaps a setting?
Thanks,
doug
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion, iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009, 12 GB)
Maybe there is a setting I couldn't see in the store because of the rush?
How do you, for example, take a picture and use it as wallpaper if you can shoot the full size of the screen?
Thanks,
doug
Does anybody who has an iPhone 5 now happen to know if there is a setting to take full screen-sized photos? Or are they always letter-boxed?
Thanks,
doug
iPhone camera, just as most on the market, has a letter-box sensor dimension of 3/4 (or 2/3, not sure). iPhone 5 screen is wide-format (propably 16:9). You may either zoom in (double-tap) or crop the photos in photos-app to match the screen dimension. 8MPix photos have plenty of room for cropping, still filling the screen in iPhone 5 and also HD TV:s (1080x1920 = 2,073 MPix).
Video is 16:9 HD (1080x1920).
OK, thank you. That is helpful.
doug
Actually this is misrepresentation on Apple's behalf.
What is the point of having a camera that does not fill the screen? Having to crop the photo just so I can view it full screen on my device is crazy.
If I could get a refund I would.
RT
While I understand the technical reasons, it seems strange. Apple should have upgraded the sensor so it supported a 16:9 ratio photo too.
doug
I've been chatting about this with some Japanese friends here and they too can't understand why you would have a 16:9 screen and then not be able to take 16:9 photos. It seems like a negative mark against the design.
doug
Is there an app that shoots full screen (16:9)?
The sensor is 4:3, so any app would just crop the 4:3 pic into the correct 16:9 dimensions - doing this you lose some resolution of the picture because 16:9 is shorter and wider than 4:3. You would get full screen however.
If apple did not want to put a 16:9 sensors in to the camera (and this would shoot 4:3 also without losing and res given 4:3 can be better accommodated on a 16:9 sensor rather than the other way around) they could at least have a native camera setting that would slightly zoom the picture to fit 16:9. This would not be a big change and can be done without changing sensors.
As I said before, apple is misrepresenting this to consumers. Don't sell me a 16:9 phone if I can't natively take 16:9 pics.
Also, if you note when shooting video, it shoots in 16:9. The image is zoomed to fit on the odd-shaped sensor. Just saying.
Thanks for explaining! That is Very dissapointing apple wouldn't have a sensor to take full screen pics not zoomed.
i got my first iphone 5, when i take photos there, format is full screen, but i changed my unit with my telco because there is a problem with my screen, now i got my new one and it seems my photos are not full screen.
I think they were never full screen. The camera doesn't have a 16:9 sensor. I'm thinking that maybe you are perhaps remembering differently from what it was and are just now noticing it?
I'm pretty sure that my previous ip5 takes full screen photo, is there a link in apple website that says ip5 not taking full screen photo? Because I'm about to exchange my unit again because of this. I guess I have to check with apple care.
Please do confirm with Apple Care. But there have been several threads on this, so I'm sure. 🙂
doug
Can the iPhone 5 take full screen sized photos?
