• cyberpunk007@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

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

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        10 months ago

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

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          10 months 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.

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          10 months ago

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

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            10 months ago

            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.

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              10 months 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.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        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.