Phone camera - general info

[caryc]

On a tractor forum that I frequent, there are sometimes photos posted that are upside down. So I decided to find out why. I thought some of you might benefit from what I found.

I have a good digital camera so the photos I post here on the forum are all taken with that. But I do have an apple 5S smart phone.

We've all seen upside down pictures posted here on the forum so I decided I would try to find out why they are upside down. Here is what I found.

I tried taking pictures and emailing them to myself to get them on my desktop computer. I found that how you hold the camera makes a difference. Of course, it's best to take photos in landscape mode so they look normal. But it still matters how you hold your phone.

With my phone in the vertical position, if I turn it to the right ninety degrees to the horizontal mode and take the picture then send it to my computer, the picture is upside down.

Starting from the vertical position again and turning the phone ninety degrees to the left and taking the picture, I found that the pictures displayed normally when sent to my computer.

You guys that have trouble with upside down pictures might try this yourself. Don't know why it works, but it does.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

A friend sends pictures from her iPhone, and they're about 100% upside down. I'll pass your experience on to her. Thanks!

Rick C

 

[Montelores]

Thanks for this.

If I understand your directions, rotating the telephone to the left from vertical (when facing the screen) positions the camera lens in the upper left position, vs. lower right position (oriented from behind the screen again).

Maybe that's the reason?

Monty

 

[caryc]

Thanks for this.

If I understand your directions, rotating the telephone to the left from vertical (when facing the screen) positions the camera lens in the upper left position, vs. lower right position (oriented from behind the screen again).

Maybe that's the reason?

Monty

Yes, you got it correct. The lens is in the upper left corner. I guess this orients the camera in the correct position. In other words if the lens is in the lower right position, you are holding the camera upside down. Same as if I held my digital camera upside down and took a picture.

 

[caryc]

The funny part is no matter if you take the picture with the lens in the upper left or the lower right corner, the camera still displays the picture correctly.

But if the camera sends the picture out like in an email, the picture will display upside down if you took it with the lens in the lower right corner.

I guess that's why so many people can't figure why their emailed pictures are displaying upside down ; because the phone itself displays their picture correctly no matter how they oriented their camera.

 

[Taterman]

Good tip here, thanks.

 

[Pat-inCO]

If you receive one, you can go into any of the image processors and
rotate it by 180 degrees, if you are going to keep it.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

If you receive one, you can go into any of the image processors and
rotate it by 180 degrees, if you are going to keep it.

...or you can look at it, crane your neck like crazy and move on.

 

[caryc]

If you receive one, you can go into any of the image processors and
rotate it by 180 degrees, if you are going to keep it.

...or you can look at it, crane your neck like crazy and move on.

That's what I was hoping to prevent. :wink:

 

[blume357]

I always have to flip my monitor when I get those pictures.... real pain and the monitor doesn't sit on my desk worth a darn in that position.

 

[chm270]

Pictures can be turned around in many programs (including picture viewer in Windows)
BUT.. Try flipping a movie if you want some frustration.

 

[caryc]

Pictures can be turned around in many programs (including picture viewer in Windows)
BUT.. Try flipping a movie if you want some frustration.

Sure, there are many programs that can flip the pictures. But, the problem is that you first have to download the picture from a forum to you own computer to do it.

 

[Kevin]

Plus it's an extra step. I haven't had the problems here, with upside down pictures. I do have trouble when taking a picture with my phone looking straight down. Like say taking a picture of a book which is flat on the coffee table. The vertical / horizontal aspect gets flipped.

 

[mohavesam]

Turn off "auto-rotate" before taking a picture.

 

[coach]

My iPhone will sometimes rotate the picture if when held horizontally the phone is rotated slightly past horizontal.