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"phone camera"
Yes, because it's a phone and made to be held that way. Did you ever pick up the receiver of a regular old telephone and hold it sideways? The speaker is at the top, the microphone is at the bottom. The entire design of the smart phone was built around that - not to mention it is generally meant to be held with one hand.
"phone camera"
I have similar complaints about cameras that are much more difficult to use if one is very left handed.
My point is the design was based around it's use as a phone. It wasn't designed as a camera or as a television - or it may have a different natural orientation. But it was originally designed to be held up to your ear, not to your eye.
Also, you mention "videos that are supposed to be viewed on landscape monitor." If you look at what YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram are heavily pushing, it's short videos in portrait orientation. Most cell phone videos only get viewed on cell phones or tablets, in portrait orientation.
So the design dictates the use, which influences expectations. Almost no one now finds it odd to watch a portrait-oriented video. That has an impact on photography, also. A half-frame camera produces a photo that naturally fills the entire screen most people are using (phone screen), the way people are using it.
It is designed based on the display.
The cheapskates that used them in the old days thought they were getting more for their money with half frame.Such a camera is a waste of valuable film.
The cheapskates that used them in the old days thought they were getting more for their money with half frame.
If you take a picture of a donkey with a half frame camera is the picture half....?
It is designed around the display, which is chosen due to the design of a telephone (mic at the bottom, speaker at the top).
I am not talking about the half frame although I don't like the half frame but I am talking about fixed focus, fixed exposure thus can't result in good pictures and wasting valuable film.
I guess it could have been worse:
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I am not really sure just what these cameras do for us but at least they are out there.
Such a camera is a waste of valuable film.
Yep - like this:
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My point is the design was based around it's use as a phone. It wasn't designed as a camera or as a television - or it may have a different natural orientation. But it was originally designed to be held up to your ear, not to your eye.
Also, you mention "videos that are supposed to be viewed on landscape monitor." If you look at what YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram are heavily pushing, it's short videos in portrait orientation. Most cell phone videos only get viewed on cell phones or tablets, in portrait orientation.
So the design dictates the use, which influences expectations. Almost no one now finds it odd to watch a portrait-oriented video. That has an impact on photography, also. A half-frame camera produces a photo that naturally fills the entire screen most people are using (phone screen), the way people are using it.
Wrong. It is designed based on the display. See how the zombie hands unnaturally adapted to the non-phone form factor even though it is held vertically? But that is the most secure and firm position to hold a rectangular display.
Also the YT, Facebook and Insta's portrait format are the effect not the cause. All the serious videos and the longer ones are still in landscape format. YT call it "shorts", why? Because they are short. And TikTok is actually the pioneer. They found out from their study that the demography of the vertical shooters have very short attention span. YT just copied the idea to compete with TikTok.
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If the display is not the main factor then we will see smartphones with design like Nokia 6260
most people hold cell phone camera in portrait orientation for everything they shoot including videos that are supposed to be viewed on landscape monitor.
Only Motorola can give a solution.
Just mount your TV on the wall in a portrait orientation. :-|
Actually she's not holding it but rather leaning it on three fingers plus one support finger.
Is your comment the result of an extensive experience with such cameras or just a baseless remark?
I know what kind of image quality a camera can deliver with fixed exposure and focus regadless of how good the lens is.
Image "quality" is not the point of these cameras, though
I know what kind of image quality a camera can deliver with fixed exposure and focus regadless of how good the lens is.
I know what kind of image quality a camera can deliver with fixed exposure and focus regadless of how good the lens is.
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