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iPhone 8/Plus Snapchat videos
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Yeah snapchat videos are terrible quality. Pictures are a little better, but still bad. I used to really care about this stuff (high quality content), but gave up since no one else really cares. It's "good enough". I will say, snapchat videos still look extremely smooth compared to snapchat on android, which still has a certain feel of "janky"
Yeah when you save an existing snapchat clip to your phone (after it's taken) it's basically like going back to an iPhone 4 quality video. Looks akin to asketchy 720p video.
Since I jailbreak I occasionally like to take clips in the default camera app (for personal memory purposes) and then just upload them to snapchat after, but depending on the scene it can be best to record the clip straight from snapchat, for framing purposes. Once it's shared/the quality gets cut anyway, so you don't gain anything by doing this by itself. Another downside to this is it will show in your normal video clips folder instead of snapchat folder, so you have to organize things and it's less streamlined.
It stinks that you can’t take a photo with the regular camera app and then upload it to your Snapchat story. You can only upload it to send to individual people as a “message.” Or am I missing something?
That's how it works. They're supposed to be in the moment captures/snaps. If they let you upload, you'd be able to upload a picture from 3 years ago and act like it took place today. But it would be nice, for quality purposes.
If you thought low light photos looked bad normally, you should see them on snapchat. Brings me back to the VGA camera days.
Yeah very poor quality flip phones.
I think like iPhone 3G front facing cam was VGA at some point.
The first iPhone and the 3G are 2.0 MP camera devices. It was until the 3GS hit that we got 3.0 MP (I think it was 3.0) which also was the first to support video recording at 30 fps [Back facing cam, front facing was till the 4]
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iPhone 4 had the first front facing camera and was VGA (640x480?)
You can add items from your camera roll to your SnapStory as "memory." It'll have a time stamp on it but at least it doesn't have the white border anymore. You can access your camera roll by tapping the little phone icon under the capture button.