V20 4:3 vs 16:9 pictures

[naturecannon]

Disclaimer: i am a photo noob

I noticed when looking at my pictures in the gallery, the 16mp pictures do not fill the entire screen and 12mp does. I don't print my pictures, most of my use is on screen viewing. So would I be better of using 16:9 12mp setting so I have more photo on screen to see? I do like seeing the pictures larger, seems a waste loosing a half inch on each side, after all I did purchase a big screen phone. How much picture quality am I losing opting for the larger looking pics on screen @ 12 vs 16mp? I never noticed this on past phones I had.

 

[lrrowley]

It kind of depends on your preference, and where you'll be looking at the photos most. Standard photographs are in the 4:3 format so if you want to print any photos they might print better if you take them in 4:3. But otherwise if you're mainly just looking at them on your phone screen then you might prefer 16:9. If you're going to post them online at Facebook or Instagram then the 4:3 might also look better. As far as picture quality 12mp just means you can't crop/zoom in as far.

 

[anon(782252)]

Take the same picture using each setting and what you will see is taking photos in 4:3 actually gets more in the frame vertically than 16:9 while capturing just about the same width.

But if the pictures work better for you in 16:9 I wouldn't worry about it. Just enjoy your pictures. That's all that really matters.

 

[SpookDroid]

It depends on the size of the sensor. Not sure if the V20 has a 4:3 sensor or a 16:9 (or any close ratio), but whatever that is, THAT'S what you wanna stick to. If you use any of the other ratios, that means that you're only losing 'pixels' in translation. Think of a painting that won't fit a frame. You can either 'zoom in' or cut off the excess to make it fit. Either way you're losing original material.

 

[naturecannon]

It depends on the size of the sensor. Not sure if the V20 has a 4:3 sensor or a 16:9 (or any close ratio), but whatever that is, THAT'S what you wanna stick to. If you use any of the other ratios, that means that you're only losing 'pixels' in translation. Think of a painting that won't fit a frame. You can either 'zoom in' or cut off the excess to make it fit. Either way you're losing original material.

Maybe that's why everyone's is set at 12mp default out of the box instead of the 16mp

 

[SpookDroid]

Maybe that's why everyone's is set at 12mp default out of the box instead of the 16mp

Usually the top resolution option is the sensor's actual ratio. To change the ratio, you'd need to cut off pixels, so you'd end up with a lower MP count anyway. But if you keep a lower MP with the same picture ratio, you're still using the whole sensor, just 'merging' pixels into each other (here, I'm not sure if the processor actually uses less pixels from the sensor or if it uses the whole thing and then just splurges them together with software processing).

 

[jfenton]

That's why I so loved my Samsung tablet that was 16:9 before they went to the 4:3. Much, much better for looking at photos, movies, etc.

Being a landscape photographer in my spare time, I always shoot 16:9 or at the very least crop close to it with my real camera gear.