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Re:Horizon – Record horizontally. Always by asdfaoeu on Monday July 14, 2014 @07:05AM (#8030353)
> Anyway, what I wanted to ask.. how do they go around the loss of quality? It's not a simple crop? Can they somehow utilize any part of the chip they want (as long as the maximum is the same?) since the chip is much bigger than the max possible video it can record?

Who says they do? The app seems to show the entire input so I don't think there could be anything tricky in terms of using only part of the sensor.

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Re:Horizon – Record horizontally. Always by rplnt on Monday July 14, 2014 @07:10AM (#8030368)
> Who says they do?

They advertise certain resolution. I assumed it's for the final video. If they just crop it and stretch it.. that's disappointing.

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Re:Horizon – Record horizontally. Always by petrakeas on Monday July 14, 2014 @07:20AM (#8030392)
When Crisp mode is used (in iPhone 5S), we use the full camera resolution (2592 x 1936 pixels) and after transforming it we project it to the output resolution (1080p, 720p). So, the final video is.. crisp :)
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