I am sick of idiots videoing in portrait mode, missing two thirds of what could have been "framed" and then shaking the thing side to side to capture what they otherwise would have on their damn screen already.

I wonder if they have their TVs in portrait mode at home, too...

the solution is pretty simple: rotate the sensor inside phones.

Portrait mode vs landscape mode argument isn't completely a bad thing - it makes it easy to judge the average intelligence of the videographer which allows for a more accurate assessment of the portrayed situation.

I'll be honest; sometimes I'll use portrait mode, but normally only for still photos of a single individual... ;-)

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Cat for humor. That would be horrible design from the perspective of control mapping.


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Funny you should bring up rotating sensors. In the Nexus 5x LG put the sensor upside down so it could fit. They then flipped the image in software.

Cars and Candy:

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I came up with the comment an hour after posting that picture. Damn my lightning wit.

people don't hold phones sideways. why is the sensor sideways?

I assume you mean the image sensor, and not the accelerometer / position sensor?

The image sensors used in modern smartphones aren't built to the same fixed aspect ratio as those found in things like video cameras (natively 16:9) or DSLR cameras (natively 3:2). Because the phone designers expect the user to hold the phone in both portrait and landscape orientations, the sensors are practically square, and the phone's software simply crops the image differently depending upon the orientation.

It would, in theory, be a relatively trivial matter to design the software to force landscape mode regardless of orientation, or to capture all of the pixels and allow the image to be cropped later, but to my knowledge, none offer this feature.




Old-school color TV camera cable. This sucker is an inch and a half thick, and about as flexible as Rush Limbaugh's political views.

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Unusual sight

WYSIWYG is proper design. I do agree that holding a phone landscape, with one hand, is un-handy.

my god is that a 1981 ford escort lx with two tone paint and a 68 hp 1.6L?

What you dont realize is how many people literally use a phone more than a computer. I hate it, but there are a ton of people who do everything on a phone. My fiance rarely is on her computer. Only for document creation and whatnot.

:bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:

then dont get me started on how many apps still require two hands to operate...and menu bars on the top of the screen. it's fucking infuriating that people design phone-apps like a moused-based web-browser.

i shouldnt need to use my pointer finger to drag thing down from the top of an enormous screen -- i shoudl be able to access most things with my thumb near the bottom...

http://alistapart.com/d/432/1.4-thumb-zone-2x.jpg

If they hadn't stopped making phones of a usable size it wouldnt be an issue.

My old moto-x allowed me to touch anywhere on the screen with my thumb.

Globally, around 10% of Caucasian people of Anglo-Saxon descent are left-handed, however in India and Africa this rate drops to around 5%, and is only around 3% in Japan.

Why do you hate white people, Brainey?



Also, The Simpsons predicted 9/11.

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I see an old man driving the same era GT version- often at the liquor store. I think he lives in it.
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The recycling bins at my workplace are racist, too.

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And apparently it does baby too. latch locations in center? :giggle:

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