Comment on The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
This article gave me zero idea what a square front camera is.
Does it mean that the sensor is a square instead of a rectangle? I’m confused.
sanzky@beehaw.org 2 months ago
yes. it is a square sensor that the phone crops automatically to be a a rectangle. so it can take photos on landscape or portrait no matter if the phone physically vertical or horizontal.
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Well well, isn’t that amazing /s
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
But… why? Just give me the full image.
sanzky@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I’m sure most people expectation are the standard aspect ratios. But probably there will be some third party camera app that will allow this (like they allow raw)
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 months ago
so in other words it’s automatically removing some of my image in order to fake being portrait or landscape?
sanzky@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I don’t see how it would be fake. people have cropped photos to change framing for a long time and no one called it fake.