sopax wrote:Just for your info: My camera is the top rated Panasonic compact, less than 6 months old, in the 1000$ range.
Yep, I guess that's why I'm surprised. I knew this was the case for older Android smartphone cameras, but I can't see why some manufacturers don't bother to
rotate the
image physically.
For a visual overview of the issue:
1. Check your
image directly in browser. Displays fine, because the browser will read the EXIF rotation when
image is viewed directly in standalone (not within a web page):
http://sopax.dk/X3/content/3.rejser/1.S ... nka039.JPG
2. Head on over to
metapicz.com (online EXIF viewer), and load the remote
image. You will notice two things:
A ) The
image is incorrectly rotated, because browser cannot
rotate the
image inside a web page.
B ) You will see "rotation" is instead stored as EXIF value.
What cameras SHOULD do (and most do):
1. Here is an
image directly from a Canon camera:
http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/pro ... bel-t5.jpg
2. Load this
image into
metapicz.com, and notice two things:
A ) The
image is correctly rotated, although obviously taken by the camera rotated.
B ) You will see in rotation EXIF data that there is no rotation ... Or more precisely, it's set to "Horisontal / normal", which is correct relative to the physical rotation it is saved in.