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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why is the video setting on cameras always so much more zoomed in that the photo setting(s)?
gpt
Very often a modern camera is using the borders of the image (which you don't see when taking a video) to take the shake out of the video (image stabilization). By having borders around the actual video frame that is taken, the camera can adjust for shaky hands by shifting the smaller (zoomed in) view in the other direction, making your video remarkably smooth. This is done using digital analysis, accelerometers that measure the shaky movement, or both.