Vaun's photography Loc: Bonney Lake, WA

We were in the Olympic National Forest camping for the 4th. This morning before we left, we went walking along a trail.

I was taking photos as I usually do, later I discovered that the camera settings on my Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G had changed sometime during the walk.

Must have been tired fingers hitting wrong spots. Went from 3:4 to full screen without my noticing.

Can users with larger screens see a drastic difference?

3:4

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

The aspect ratio is different between the two. (Height/width.)
The first is more square,
You really need to compare the same shot to really see what is different (contained in) between the two aspect ratios.

Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

Hk Vaun. Both of those are nice, clear shots. A larger screen than your phone will allow you a more critical view of an image because the image is larger. Here you have two different scenes, one a close up of a flower and the other a landscape image. In the flower shot you can see right off that it is in sharp focus, but it’s a bit harder to tell if the landscape photo is as sharply focused. An added challenge to that type of photo is that the camera has a wide area to focus on and sometimes it can focus in an area you don’t care about, possibly leaving the most important part of the image less than crisply focused. This is probably a shortcoming of smartphone cameras because all you have is a small screen to view your scene with. This is where an EVF is better, but cellphone cameras don’t have an EVF, unfortunately. I don’t know if this answers your question or not or perhaps I’ve misunderstood your question.

By the way, when it comes to accurate focusing, if your cellphone camera is anything like the iPhone, you should be able to press your finger on the screen over a part you want perfectly focused and it should lock the focus on that point.

Vaun's photography Loc: Bonney Lake, WA

Thanks for looking Greg! I appreciate your effort to address my question.

You're right about the flower photo. As for the second I was using the ultra wide lens to get as much of the scenery as possible. Theory says that most of the photo should be in focus.

On my phone, to see the landscape photo the best, I need to have the phone in the landscape orientation, otherwise it's too small to see details.

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

They both look good to me, even without Ranger.

Vaun's photography Loc: Bonney Lake, WA

Thanks for looking Mike, and I appreciate your compliment!

johnny1950 Loc: Palm Coast, Florida

Vaun
Both are great shots like the blurred background in the flower. Both are interesting shots but for your question can not tell the diffenece both are different completly. To compare I agree you have to have the same shot with the different ratios. Have a great weekend.
Johnny

Vaun's photography Loc: Bonney Lake, WA

Thanks for looking and for your compliment and comment on my question. Much appreciated.