IPhone 4 zooms in by default in video mode?

Hi.
I received my iPhone 4 a few days ago, and am very happy with it, but, I noticed when I switch from the still camera mode to the video mode, it zooms in slightly?
Does anyone know why this is and how you can stop it doing this?
cheers!

The iPhone screen is not true 16.9 aspect ratio. However, the HD video camera does shoot at this aspect ratio (as did the 3GS, I believe). As a result, when you view a video on the iphone screen that is shot at 16.9 you will see small black bands across the top and bottom if the video isn't "zoomed" in. My guess (and that's all it is) is that Apple decided to have the video display at the full screen mode ("zoomed in") instead of showing black bands across the top and bottom ofthe screen when recording video. I'm not aware of any setting in the current OS that allows you to configure this in a different way, but I agree that it would be a nice addition.

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