Portrait or Landscape...
I inherited the family photo albums and scrapbooks. My brother does the genealogy and sometimes asks for scans of old photos. With the camera my parents owned, all the photos were square so it didn't matter which way the camera was held. Later on, they purchased a different camera that shot rectangular photos and it came with a neck strap and a top viewfinder so all the photos ended up in the portrait mode. Tall shots and not wide ones.Fast forward two generations and wide screen TV's are the norm. Landscape. Cellphone videos shoot wide screen but people normally hold them vertically. If you've seen videos posted to social media, the majority are in portrait mode.
TV news stories often add some enlarged blurred images in the background of the original video filling the empty space on the sides.
Depending on the subject, I rotate my phone to landscape mode so all the image comes through a normal TV (or computer monitor) and you don't have to twist your head to see the video.
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Or are you just telling us you know how to rotate a camera
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When clients are in the showroom I have to use the cellphone to show photos of my completed projects.