Instagram 7.5 - Instagram, now with portrait and landscape photos/video

@mikeyk awesome update and very exciting in the platform's evolution. One of the biggest aspects of this change is the ability to keep videos in landscape. Do you see Instagram going into long form video?

As a photographer I couldn't be more excited. As an advertiser I couldn't be more excited. Today was a good day.

I really loved the fact that all images were 640px by 640px

This is GREAT! Literally wiped out the use of a handful of apps (such as Squareready) instantly, but glad Instagram made the change 👍

Finally! But square photos is something Instagram rediscovered. They made every mobile manufacturer on Earth include a square mode in their default photography app. Square made them unique. Not sure why they had to do this. They have come a full circle and become an average photo sharing app.

About. Time! Making room for the video boom and more opportunities to optimize ad placements in-platform. Smart.

Dear Instagram, while this is awesome... for my upcoming birthday I would like the gift of API access. This would be a nice present.

Was just a matter of time until they made this change...no more editing hassles! I wonder if images will be displayed on a staggered grid now.

I guess it was inevitable that they needed to make things landscape. There are already apps to "square" your landscape photos, so I guess they wanted to make sure no one else did this first. After all it is quite the travesty to film in portrait. I'm on the fence about this new feature, I had a love/hate relationship with that square as an amateur photographer and a reluctant iphoneographer.

Wrote "I think square formats for videos wouldn’t be among us for much longer, just like Polaroid’s OneStep cameras..." referring to Instagram as well in my recent Medium post. So great to see this update from Instagram. Keep it up..