16:9 is horrendous, please stop buying them

[CCTVCam]

Can't you just mount it side on onto a wall if it bothers you? A Turret or dome is pretty much going to look ok in either orientation.

 

[adamg]

Can't you just mount it side on onto a wall if it bothers you? A Turret or dome is pretty much going to look ok in either orientation.

No, because if you mount a 16:9 camera in a 90 degree orientation it results in a 9:16, which is the 'vertical video' fail that was made fun of in the video. 16:9 has the same problem as 9:16, just in the other sense.

 

[Mr_D]

No, because if you mount a 16:9 camera in a 90 degree orientation it results in a 9:16, which is the 'vertical video' fail that was made fun of in the video. 16:9 has the same problem as 9:16, just in the other sense.

Then its called corridor mode. For such applications, I'd rather have a tall/skinny video than a landscape 4:3 which still gives me 1/3-1/2 of a frame of useless walls. These are surveillance videos here, not Hollywood movies.