Why YSK: I’ve been seeing an increasing number of phone photos shared online in 9:16, 9:21 or similarly tall aspect ratios, often with parts of the subject cut off. I’ve asked a few people why they cropped their images that way, and none of them knew they were cropped.
I did some testing on my phone, Samsung S22, and it looks like 1:1 uses the most of the sensor. Any other aspect ratio was zooming in. This is particularly upsetting to me since I was using the “full” setting which cropped the most but I thought I was using the most of the sensor.
Interesting. I have a Samsung A3 and both 1:1 and ‘Full’ crop, 3:4 is the one that doesn’t. Luckily I think 3:4 is the default on the camera because I don’t remember changing it. The safest thing is probably to just look up your phones specs tbh.
Reporting from a Z Fold 4 for more testing, using the 4:3 ratio seems to be the one that uses the entire sensor on this phone. 1:1 crops from the sides and 16:9 crops from the top and bottom.
Just tested on the 22 ultra and the 1:1 crops the bottom.