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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I still do. Phones can be turned to view it either way. Screens can't. I'm not gonna ask my bud to get up and rotate his living room TV 90 degrees so we can look at my vacation photos. Plus, until we learn to levitate with our minds, the plane humans interact is and will presumably remain much, much wider than it is tall, so landscape captures more of it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yup. It's a shame the camera lense can't like rotate or something, phones are much easier to hold vertically.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're just as easy to hold either way though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The weight is more evenly distributed if you hold it vertically. I still hold it horizontally though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't know. If I balance the phone on my pinky, with the index finger on top and ring- and middle finger behind, it sits very solidly. My thumb is then free to tap the shutter button.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I find it too difficult to take a picture or video landscape one handed compared to portrait

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why is that? Most phones allow you to press the shutter with the volume button so it should be easy either way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I usually change settings, my phone is big. Like depending on the scenario I might change my frame rate on the video or the optical zoom. I find it too difficult with a pixel 6 pro and my hand size. Also I use rotation lock because it's annoying if I'm laying down to have it rotate on me. So then I also need to tap the icon in the lower corner to rotate it, or disable it while I take a video. Lots of mucking about for one hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's true, but I find it just as difficult to access those features onehanded in vertical orientation, so I either do those twohanded before shooting, or I struggle about as much to reach them in either orientation.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

Ehhhhh no that's obviously wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I suspect that the sensor has the same dimensions, roughly, as the phone itself. Putting in a square one would probably cost more. Not saying that either way is right, just that that’s probably the reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lenses are circular, so the most cost effective would be a square sensor and square picture. I don't actually know what modern sensors are though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Most phone camera sensors (and most camera sensors in general) are 4:3.