videos and photos taken on iPhone and then automatically downloaded to iMac (using iCloud) not full resolution
Ok so I have tried to look for a mention of this or a reason for it numerous times but can find nothing.
When I take videos and photos on iPhone 6, I have iCloud set up to auto upload to iCloud. The phone is set to optimise so the originals eventually go from the phone. I thought this was great as all photos and videos auto upload to iCloud and then i have access to all photos ever taken on iPhone.
I then have my iMac set up to use iPhoto to auto download and store all originals. All was seemingly working well until...
After a recent trip away I took some video/photos on iPhone when got back i wanted to check everything was on the iMac. It was, but....
I logged onto iCloud website and looked through videos they were very low quality so I got worried. I checked the iMac they seemed much better but I checked the image quality and was disturbed to find that the quality was half the original size on the iPhone.
The iPhone video was 1080p and the iPhoto video was 720p.
I looked at the photos auto downloaded and found the same thing all are a smaller file size than the ones on the iPhone.
How can this be???
I was under the impression it was a one to one upload to iCloud and therefore download to iMac.
How can this be the case? what is the point of having an iPhone which takes video at 1080p only to have it downgraded when uploading to iCloud? Or am I doing something wrong.
Any help greatly appreciated
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)