Third time lucky. Now- please allow me to introduce myself...
Nearer 60 than 50 I have never had a mobile phone. Never seen the need, or the use, or even a point. So this iPad mini, which it bought three months back (ios7 already included) is my first device. And I love it! It does everything I need it to do, and it neither takes nor makes phone calls- brilliant! However, in addition to being a local government officer and a rhthym'n'blues guitarist, i am a landscape photographer, and want to display the best images as wallpaper. And here's where I join the thread, all fifty pages of which I have read since encountering the problem.
I think we have two types of user, and therefore two separate issues here, do we not? There are those who came to the iPad having used phones for years, or decades, and therefore are 'portrait' users. And there are those like me, who have used computers and slr cameras for decades, who are 'landscape' users- exclusively in my case; I cannot think of anything I would need a portrait-orientated desktop computer for, and as for landscape photography... Well, the clue is in the name.
So- the portrait user suffers from a severe crop from the sides when using a user-generated image, but the up'n'down axis is unaffected. Bit of a bind that, but the effect could be compensated for by having wide top and bottom margins. Landscape orientation though- the images are cropped from the sides AND top and bottom. And as landscape photography is mostly sky anyway, the crop often takes out ALL the land (annoyingly, landscapes work well in portrait mode as long as the focal point is in the centre of the frame). The landscape user would therefore appear to suffer disproportionately more than the phone- sorry, portrait- user.
What is that about? I shoot at 6mp using a Nikon D40, roughly 3k by 2k; surely this is broadly compatible with landscape use of the device. While I appreciate that there will probably always be some sort of problem with portrait use, I cannot see how a simple fix cannot be applied to landscape use. Just let the thing rescale, for Dawkins' sake. I don't care what happens when the device rotates, cos I don't rotate it. I've tried all the fixes mentioned in the previous fifty pages, and none of them work- although the whole thing looks a lot better with reduced motion. Moreover, to the poster who suggested cutting the image down to the number of Mp displayed by the mini- well, if anything, it's worse; the crop is no less severe but it starts to look a tad pixelated too.
Sorry to have rambled on a bit (never used Twitter, see?), but it did strike me about ten pages in that most posters were phone- and therefore portrait- users, and that there were, after all, two related, but separate, issues- one of which had been largely ignored. Any thoughts?
