#1240 Feature: crop saved photos instead of digitally stretching them

[Alexander Patrakov]

If a camera has a 4000x3000 sensor and a user shoots a photo at 2x zoom level, then, unless the phone has optical zoom, only a 2000x1500 area of the sensor is used. Still, the image from that area is digitally stretched to the original 4000x3000 size, thus creating a file that pretends to contain more information that it really does.

I want an option to save zoomed JPEG images as cropped, not stretched, i.e., in the example above, as 2000x1500. There is already another ticket requesting the same feature (cropping) for RAW photos.

[Mark]

Zoom is done this way by the camera/device/driver I'm afraid. Potentially Open Camera could just take a photo at 1x zoom and then crop it, although this wouldn't work well for things like automatically switching to telelphoto lenses.