OK, I am having an issue when I post photos to FB. All photos that I shoot in 16:9 and upload to FB do not take up the whole screen. If I crop it to a 4:3 then it does utilize the whole screen. It sounds kind of dumb, but I do not get it. Am I doing something wrong? The whole point of shooting photos in 16:9 is to utilize the 16:9 screens nowadays right? So, is it FB that has not thought of that...that people are posting 16:9 photos or is it that somehow the aspect ratio of the S5 is not perfectly 16:9 so it does not quite display right?
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OK, I am having an issue when I post photos to FB. All photos that I shoot in 16:9 and upload to FB do not take up the whole screen.
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No idea but clearly it's a Facebook issue, not something to do with your phone. And this really isn't a Facebook forum.
Most likely the default Facebook settings are 4:3 and you probably need to change your FB settings to 16:9. See if there is a way to change the formatting in your Facebook settings. Or do a search where no doubt the question has already been asked and answered in some other forum.
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No idea but clearly it's a Facebook issue, not something to do with your phone. And this really isn't a Facebook forum.
Most likely the default Facebook settings are 4:3 and you probably need to change your FB settings to 16:9. See if there is a way to change the formatting in your Facebook settings. Or do a search where no doubt the question has already been asked and answered in some other forum.
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There are no settings on the FB app unfortunately. I know this is not a FB forum, but may I, please, ask my question?
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I know this is not a FB forum, but may I, please, ask my question?
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Of course you can. My point was that you'd be far more likely to get an answer if you do a Google search. Or even post in a Facebook forum. But it's always possible that a FB user here may be able to comment.
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Of course you can. My point was that you'd be far more likely to get an answer if you do a Google search.
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I did that first. Since I did not find an answer, I came and posted here.
Anywho... so interestingly this only happens if I upload via my phone. if I upload the same exact photo from my PC it comes out large. So, it seems like FB is automatically downscaling photos which are mobile uploads
Nickel will get you a dollar that a better Google search would find you an immediate answer. But it's your nickel to do with as you wish.
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I realize the phone only came out a couple of days ago, but me and probably a lot of other people on this forum would like to know the quality of the Athena's 3 Megapixel camera. Having said that , post pictures taken by it !
Cmon, you select few lucky XDA forum members, please contribute and upload some photos !!!!!!
Here are some photos...
SupraSkylineSTI said:
Cmon, you select few lucky XDA forum members, please contribute and upload some photos !!!!!!
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OK SupraSkylineSTI. I've done a few, but because most of them are personal family pics of my kids, I can only upload a few for now, but definitely more in the week.
Now bear in mind these are the default settings and all I have changed in the camera menu settings is 'half press' as opposed to the default 'Full Press', as full press requires you to have very steady hands. Also photos have not been altered in any way, just resized according to forum rules.
I actually have to admit, that these are the best photos by far that I have seen taken by a HTC designed PPC/PE. I'm sure with some settings tweaking, they can be much improved. Nokia or SE camphone it is not, not even comparable, but bloody good all the same. Colour reproduction is also very good and accurate for outdoor shots. All 3 photos were taken in Auto mode, so changing the setting to the appropriate one is sure to improve things a little.
Thanks for your contribution man !!!!
Can you upload one full-size photo of something, so we can truly see camera quality ?
SupraSkylineSTI said:
Thanks for your contribution man !!!!
Can you upload one full-size photo of something, so we can truly see camera quality ?
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Ill have to zip it up due to restrictions on the forum......hold tight..it's coming.
The stock gallery app on the Nexus One is HORRIBLE. Flashy, shiny, touchy, yes. But all of my photos are incredibly compressed and zooming in results in a massive JPG compression artifact fest.
I wrote a bunch of notes on a whiteboard and my friend with a Droid and I both took photos of it to keep a record with our phones, but to my horror, the notes were COMPLETELY unreadable on my phone: all of the detail was gone, even though the camera preview after I took the shot looked fine zoomed in.
The Droid does not have this problem in its gallery app.
I found another Gallery app meant for the Droid on the market and it does not have this issue. The photos I took were fine, it was the gallery app loading a piss poor quality version of the photo.
Does Google know their gallery app sucks? Do they just not care? It makes it seem like the Nexus One takes godawful pictures when really the pictures are just fine!
Yep.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6021
This also extends to setting wallpapers from the gallery app, which explains why every wallpaper from my camera looks like ass.
If you set wallpapers using "wallpaper set and save" from the market, your wallpapers are WAY, WAY higher quality.
So I guess my question is, how do we make sure Google knows about this bug?
rotohammer said:
Yep.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6021
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Thanks for the link. I encourage everyone to vote for and comment on this issue so Google takes notice.
Make sure you "star" the issue to prioritize it for google. Dont add a comment unless you have something new to contribute, everyone who is subscribed will be an email)
To do this click on the white star below "New issue" on the top left. (its hard to notice)
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This also extends to setting wallpapers from the gallery app, which explains why every wallpaper from my camera looks like ass.
If you set wallpapers using "wallpaper set and save" from the market, your wallpapers are WAY, WAY higher quality.
So I guess my question is, how do we make sure Google knows about this bug?
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what do you mean by wallpaper set and save?
how to do that?
obadvw said:
what do you mean by wallpaper set and save?
how to do that?
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It is an app that's on the market.
Only 34 stars :/
Hi all
Got my note today LOVE IT
One question I back my contacts up on gmail the contact pics when ringing someone are low quality . I have changed the contact pics with ones stored on my memory card but they are low quality . Can anyone tell me how to.get them to be high quality ?
Thanks in advance
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Sue Google for being extremely stupid and hope they correct their error.
Seriously, it's your only hope.
in the video for the annoucement of ICS this was addressed and fixed.
JFizDaWiz said:
in the video for the annoucement of ICS this was addressed and fixed.
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Really? I didn't see that on the announcement, and it's definitely still unfixed at this point in ICS. Where did you see this?
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Really? I didn't see that on the announcement, and it's definitely still unfixed at this point in ICS. Where did you see this?
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No Idea where you checked...
But in the first CM9 build of ICS (preAlpha) the pics are sharp and big...
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I used Google Exchange Synchronization on iPhone before. Since I had a Google Nexus and now a Galaxy Note, I can say at least one thing:
It's neither device nor OS dependent. I googled a lot when I was on iPhone with low quality contact pictures and I finally found the solution on one of Googles Message Boards.
The problem lies within the Exchange settings of google sync. Google set the maxumum size of contact pictures to a low resolution, any high-quality contact picture attached to your contact, will be immediately synchronized to google, transformed to a lower resolution and then synced back to your device in low-quality.
One of the moderators of google stated this on the bulletin board.
In 2010 they changed the resolution to a higher number, but still quite low-quality.
Source:
1. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=5d91a9267607c288&hl=en
2. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=794dab6733bb8812&hl=en
3. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=688a9bfba45e0696&hl=en
As long as you sync the contacts with google, they will be synced back in a lower resolution. Of course some Launchers or alternative ROMs allow to use a local contacts picture instead of the synced one, but that's not the soltuion for cloud-services like this.
In Android 4 (ICS) all of this is resolved!
Same info: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
Large photos
Android now supports high resolution photos for contacts. Now, when you push a photo into a contact record, the system processes it into both a 96x96 thumbnail (as it has previously) and a 256x256 "display photo" that's stored in a new file-based photo store (the exact dimensions that the system chooses may vary in the future). You can add a large photo to a contact by putting a large photo in the usual PHOTO column of a data row, which the system will then process into the appropriate thumbnail and display photo records.
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No Idea where you checked...
But in the first CM9 build of ICS (preAlpha) the pics are sharp and big...
Maybe you should have a look...
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mdalacu said:
In Android 4 (ICS) all of this is resolved!
Same info: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
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He's asking about Gmail pictures. This is 100% separate from ICS. Try this. Delete the contact account on your phone, and reinstate it with gmail. It will sync really low res pictures to your phone. On my stock AOSP rom. I did the exact experiment described above. It synced low quality versions of the high res pictures I put on my phone.
ICS did something completely different. It allows you to locally put a high res photo on a contact. It does not allow you to put a high res photo on googles gmail servers. The only way to cloud sync a high res photo is through google+. Some people have had luck using some 3rd party facebook apps for the same thing. However, gmail contacts don't get high res photos. More than a few people I've seen have complained that gmail contacts have the high res photo overwritten on sync. I have just accepted the low res at this point.
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He's asking about Gmail pictures. This is 100% separate from ICS. Try this. Delete the contact account on your phone, and reinstate it with gmail. It will sync really low res pictures to your phone. On my stock AOSP rom. I did the exact experiment described above. It synced low quality versions of the high res pictures I put on my phone.
ICS did something completely different. It allows you to locally put a high res photo on a contact. It does not allow you to put a high res photo on googles gmail servers. The only way to cloud sync a high res photo is through google+. Some people have had luck using some 3rd party facebook apps for the same thing. However, gmail contacts don't get high res photos. More than a few people I've seen have complained that gmail contacts have the high res photo overwritten on sync. I have just accepted the low res at this point.
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I think that ICS is referencing a different picture location on gmail servers, the one with 256x256 resolution. All other versions and programs still points to the old location where a low res photo is stored. This is done for compatibility.
If you create a contact in ICS the Android will sync the picture in to places e one with hi resolution and one with the normal (old) resolution (96x96). The new programs will know how to check in both places, but until then only ICS does this.
I have managed to sort of solve the issue ... i have turned off sync and then replaced the pictures off my memory card ... which then retains the picture at the proper resolution ....
it appears that if you turn back on sync it will then sync back to google and the pictures go back to low quality
until google or who ever sort out the issue , i will leave off sync .... so i have good quality pictures on my contacts
thank you to everyone for your help .. roll on ics
Issue still persists... :crying:
"Facebook Sync" on the Play Store grabs 720x720 pics and it looks really good, BUT as soon as it sync's again with Google it grabs the fugly low-res versions again.
Google should fix this ASAP.
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You guys need to install Google Plus and sync your Google Plus contacts to your phone. Anyone who has a Public Google Plus profile would show as a high resolution pic on your Note.
I've made many of my friends force join Google plus just to sync their higher resolution pictures.
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Me too.. over 10 here... but i think in JB they solved this, they sync pics at 720px.
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Me too.. over 10 here... but i think in JB they solved this, they sync pics at 720px.
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JB itself handles 720p images in "People" application, locally. Yet, Google still syncs it on 256x256, which looks disastrous on 720p screen. As long as you keep it away from syncing with Google, all looks fine. That's what I usualy do.
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"Facebook Sync" on the Play Store grabs 720x720 pics and it looks really good, BUT as soon as it sync's again with Google it grabs the fugly low-res versions again.
Google should fix this ASAP.
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Try Haxsync
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thank you. I will try it.
Leechoonhwee said:
Try Haxsync
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Same story. It'll grab low-res images the next time i sync. This is something Google has to fix on their side.
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haxsync
Haxsync will fix the problem. It will download all your friends on facebook as phone contacts... You just have to associate each facebook contact with your google or phone contacts. The phone will display high quality photos and google sync won`t change them ...
No need to anymore. Google updated their contacts page in Gmail yesterday. It supports 720x720 now.
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OK on my Galaxy Note 3 Lte
I was was wondering if there is a setting that can be changed
Or an App
That will allow Full Screen Photos on Facebook on a Computer Screen
My past 2 phones Nokia 808 Pureview and Nokia N8 No problem Huge Photos but upload to Facebook and total full screen not boarders no frames
So why is it these new Phones don't seem to allow this??
What can be changed ????/
Or is there an App????
I thought with so many people using FB this would be a must
Gazzasore said:
OK on my Galaxy Note 3 Lte
I was was wondering if there is a setting that can be changed
Or an App
That will allow Full Screen Photos on Facebook on a Computer Screen
My past 2 phones Nokia 808 Pureview and Nokia N8 No problem Huge Photos but upload to Facebook and total full screen not boarders no frames
So why is it these new Phones don't seem to allow this??
What can be changed ????/
Or is there an App????
I thought with so many people using FB this would be a must
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There must be someone out there with an answer shorly
Is there a way of hacking an App to allow this
Gazzasore said:
There must be someone out there with an answer shorly
Is there a way of hacking an App to allow this
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No one interested in this topic
Are there any App builders out there that will take up the challenge Must be someone
or are the guide lines for uploading Photos to FB restricted
As we know, the Google Camera App had some user interface changes recently (as noted here), but I can't say that these changes helped to improve the user experience as much as one simple change could:
Take the portrait mode from the options menu and make it a single toggle on the main camera screen. Now that the grid icon has been removed, the new portrait mode toggle could be applied without adding too much clutter. Do you guys agree and if so, why do you think Google hasn't implemented this seemingly obvious change?
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As we know, the Google Camera App had some user interface changes recently (as noted here), but I can't say that these changes helped to improve the user experience as much as one simple change could:
Take the portrait mode from the options menu and make it a single toggle on the main camera screen. Now that the grid icon has been removed, the new portrait mode toggle could be applied without adding too much clutter. Do you guys agree and if so, why do you think Google hasn't implemented this seemingly obvious change?
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I'd agree with this. I'd also like to see a 4:3/16:9 toggle, as there are times I'd like to take a full shot that could be used as a wallpaper (for the phone or PC)
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I'd agree with this. I'd also like to see a 4:3/16:9 toggle, as there are times I'd like to take a full shot that could be used as a wallpaper (for the phone or PC)
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That's a great idea! Landscape photos really benefit from the wider format.
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That's a great idea! Landscape photos really benefit from the wider format.
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Definitely - I like (and would love a toggle) to be able to view a shot and decide whether this should be a 4:4 or 16:9 as indeed some photos definitely benefit from the wider viewing
I sent this feedback to Google via the feedback option within the camera - let's see if anything changes!
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Definitely - I like (and would love a toggle) to be able to view a shot and decide whether this should be a 4:4 or 16:9 as indeed some photos definitely benefit from the wider viewing
I sent this feedback to Google via the feedback option within the camera - let's see if anything changes!
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I wonder if anyone truly reviews each of these feedback requests?
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I wonder if anyone truly reviews each of these feedback requests?
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One can dream....
And hell if we see such changes in an upcoming release then our work here is done!
cd993 said:
One can dream....
And hell if we see such changes in an upcoming release then our work here is done!
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Our work will never be done bro! By the time they fix stuff, some shave tail engineer will come up with something they deem as great, and jack something else up for the talented XDA masters to fix! The cycle will continue! ???
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Our work will never be done bro! By the time they fix stuff, some shave tail engineer will come up with something they deem as great, and jack something else up for the talented XDA masters to fix! The cycle will continue! ???
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Ahaha the never ending cycle that we expose ourselves to! Before we know it the next latest and greatest device will be out and we'll be on that haha
cd993 said:
Ahaha the never ending cycle that we expose ourselves to! Before we know it the next latest and greatest device will be out and we'll be on that haha
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I'll be right there with ya bruh! ??
cd993 said:
I'd agree with this. I'd also like to see a 4:3/16:9 toggle, as there are times I'd like to take a full shot that could be used as a wallpaper (for the phone or PC)
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What's so difficult about cropping your 4:3 to 16:9?
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What's so difficult about cropping your 4:3 to 16:9?
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Absolutely nothing difficult in cropping a picture after I've taken it. I just prefer to take a shot right first time. So the majority of shots I'll take a 4:3 but every now and then I'll fancy a 16:9 (if I perhaps intend for a computer wallpaper or it's a wider shot like a group photo or wider scenario pic). So for such reasons, a quick toggle for me would benefit
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Absolutely nothing difficult in cropping a picture after I've taken it. I just prefer to take a shot right first time. So the majority of shots I'll take a 4:3 but every now and then I'll fancy a 16:9 (if I perhaps intend for a computer wallpaper or it's a wider shot like a group photo or wider scenario pic). So for such reasons, a quick toggle for me would benefit
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But if you take the 4:3 shot first, you could crop to 16:9 anyway you choose instead of being stuck with a 16:9 right from the start. That's even better than shooting 16:9 to begin with.
Just my opinion tho.
Also, if you just take the 4:3, you could have one of each.
Doesn't work the other way around.
What's wrong with using the 16:9 in the settings for a wallpaper?
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But if you take the 4:3 shot first, you could crop to 16:9 anyway you choose instead of being stuck with a 16:9 right from the start. That's even better than shooting 16:9 to begin with.
Just my opinion tho.
Also, if you just take the 4:3, you could have one of each.
Doesn't work the other way around.
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That is a fair point. I guess I'm just used to having it on a previous phone (Samsung s8 I think), having a quick toggle, and found it to be useful
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What's wrong with using the 16:9 in the settings for a wallpaper?
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There's nothing wrong with it. But just like portrait mode, since would like for it to be a quick toggle from the main screen. It's easier and faster than digging through menus.
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That is a fair point. I guess I'm just used to having it on a previous phone (Samsung s8 I think), having a quick toggle, and found it to be useful
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What's wrong with using the 16:9 in the settings for a wallpaper?
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All that option is doing is cropping. You can do that after any full 12MP photo. I'd rather take full resolution photos and not miss anything then cropping after.
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EeZeEpEe said:
All that option is doing is cropping. You can do that after any full 12MP photo. I'd rather take full resolution photos and not miss anything then cropping after.
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You sir, have opened many eyes! I was under the impression that my method was beneficial but after taking 2 comparison shots you're exactly right. It did always pain me to reduce the resolution to get that "16:9 shot" but your right, it is just cropping a higher resolution photo and indeed I can just crop a 4:3 shot afterwards.
I thank you!
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All that option is doing is cropping. You can do that after any full 12MP photo. I'd rather take full resolution photos and not miss anything then cropping after.
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Setting photos to 4:3 or 16:9/18:9 makes a difference when using the rule of thirds guidelines in the app. So if using rule of thirds, cropping after the fact may ruin the composition. At the same time, rule of thirds isn't an absolute and the quoted advice is generally sound.
I personally like widescreen and frame my shots with it in mind. I lose data, but it saves me a step.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Setting photos to 4:3 or 16:9/18:9 makes a difference when using the rule of thirds guidelines in the app. So if using rule of thirds, cropping after the fact may ruin the composition. At the same time, rule of thirds isn't an absolute and the quoted advice is generally sound.
I personally like widescreen and frame my shots with it in mind. I lose data, but it saves me a step.
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If you're always doing 16:9 photos then okay. I do rule of thirds fine at 4:3 but that's cause I never want a photo to be 16:9. Even if I did, it's cropping top and bottom and I'm usually using rule of thirds on the horizontal plane when in landscape so it wouldn't really affect the shot.
I personally hate the crop especially with video. It's like everything is zoomed. That's why I love using the Sirui wide angle lens. Gives me more in view but 16:9 ratio as seen in the attached.
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