diff --git a/src/blob/blob_tests.rs b/src/blob/blob_tests.rs
index 63763f54a..86056e739 100644
--- a/src/blob/blob_tests.rs
+++ b/src/blob/blob_tests.rs
@@ -258,6 +258,26 @@ async fn test_selfavatar_copy_without_recode() {
     assert_eq!(avatar_cfg, avatar_blob.to_str().map(|s| s.to_string()));
 }
 
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
+async fn test_recode_image_long_narrow() {
+    let bytes = include_bytes!("../../test-data/image/screenshot.png");
+    SendImageCheckMediaquality {
+        viewtype: Viewtype::Image,
+        media_quality_config: "0",
+        bytes,
+        extension: "jpg",
+        original_width: 1920,
+        original_height: 1080,
+        compressed_width: 1872,
+        compressed_height: 1053,
+        ..Default::default()
+    }
+    .test()
+    .await
+    .unwrap();
+    assert!(false);
+}
+
 #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
 async fn test_recode_image_1() {
     let bytes = include_bytes!("../../test-data/image/avatar1000x1000.jpg");
diff --git a/src/constants.rs b/src/constants.rs
index 6850cf243..25398568b 100644
--- a/src/constants.rs
+++ b/src/constants.rs
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ pub const DC_LP_AUTH_NORMAL: i32 = 0x4;
 pub const DC_LP_AUTH_FLAGS: i32 = DC_LP_AUTH_OAUTH2 | DC_LP_AUTH_NORMAL;
 
 // max. weight of images to send w/o recoding
-pub const BALANCED_IMAGE_BYTES: usize = 500_000;
+pub const BALANCED_IMAGE_BYTES: usize = 1;
 pub const WORSE_IMAGE_BYTES: usize = 130_000;
 
 // max. width/height and bytes of an avatar
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ pub(crate) const WORSE_AVATAR_SIZE: u32 = 256;
 pub(crate) const WORSE_AVATAR_BYTES: usize = 20_000; // this also fits to Outlook servers don't allowing headers larger than 32k.
 
 // max. width/height of images scaled down because of being too huge
-pub const BALANCED_IMAGE_SIZE: u32 = 1280;
+pub const BALANCED_IMAGE_SIZE: u32 = 1408;
 pub const WORSE_IMAGE_SIZE: u32 = 640;
 
 /// Limit for received images size. Bigger images become `Viewtype::File` to avoid excessive memory