iPhone 16 Pro QuickTake Video bug?

[bluedoggiant]

One of the new iPhone 16 Pro features is that QuickTake will shoot video using your video settings. Used to be only 1080 30 fps, but now if you have 4K 60 fps as your default it will do that.

What's annoying is if you set your default camera to 28mm or 35mm, the QuickTake video launches in that zoomed in ratio, but is even more zoomed in due to it being the Video mode (non 16P models shoot video in the exact same ratio as your photos, so wysiwyg).

So even on 28mm (1.2x), videos are way too zoomed in, and you have to back out to 24mm (1x).

This kind of negates the entire QuickTake feature as you might as well switch to Video mode first before taking a video. Not to mention, the app feels glitchy now when you start a video as the aspect ratio glitch-ily zooms in.

Who else who uses 28mm or 35mm default lens and the QuickTake video feature wishes that QuickTake videos shoot in 24mm?

I can't be the only one that finds this annoying.

 

[bluedoggiant]

Has anyone observed this behavior? Wonder if I should post this in the iPhone 16 Pro forum as its specific to that device despite it being a software issue.

 

[bluedoggiant]

Bumping this. Has anyone been able to recreate this phenomenon?

 

[ManuCH]

So I've tried to reproduce this (I never use QuickTake and just found out about it thanks to this post).

What I notice is that the video is being recorded at whatever zoom level the camera app is currently set to. If I'm in photo mode at 1x zoom, QuickTake will also record at 1x (although slightly more zoomed in because it's video mode).

If I set the default camera to 1.2x in camera settings, then open the camera app, it will be at 1.2x, and it will also record QuickTake at 1.2x. If I switch it to 1x manually in photo mode, QuickTake will again record at 1x.

In summary: QuickTake follows whatever zoom level is currently set for the camera. I think that's expected behavior, isn't it? How would you like it to be instead? Always revert back to 1x?

 

[xasssha]

Why is there so little discussion of this issue on the Internet? I totally agree with you. I purchased 16 pro max and, as a content maker, I am very unhappy that the QuickTake settings have made the default video settings. It was the main tool in my work, for two years now I have not been shooting on the iPhone video format, only on QuickTake. And then I turn it on at 16 and see how the picture gets closer, changes the light correction, color, ceases to be complete, and this is really a big problem for me. Can Apple revert to its previous QuickTake settings in the next iOS? Maybe someone has already found workarounds or applications where you can get the same approximate image in a video in 4:3? I would be very grateful for any solutions to the problem..