Wrong Photo Orientation

[leimad13]

Hi there.

I just upgraded to Z1 Compact and while copying new photos I noticed my vertically taken photos are shown rotated left. Looks like all photos are taken in Width>Height resolution 3840x2160. This is fine for horizontal photos of course but Vertically taken photos appear sideways on my PC. My old HTC Desire S automatically adjust photos taken vertically to correct resolution by default (in sony it should be 2160x3840 if it did it the same way) which is what common sense suggest (photo Height should be bigger than Width)

Photos appear in the way they were taken in Album and such on the phone and I basically would like to get them copied to my PC the same way. Is there a way to do it on the fly or change some options I can not find to do so? I can of course rotate them manually in my photo explorer but it will be pretty annoying woth hundreds of pictures

Please let me know if you can help me out with it, cheers, Dan.

[leimad13]

No one can help me out with this one? Or at least shed some light on the problem? Cheers, Dan

[JiYong]

What program are you using on your PC to watch the photos?

Can you try with another app?

I can recommend IrfanView (for Windows). http://www.irfanview.com/

If the photos do show up in the right orientation in Albums, it looks like the problem is with the program on your PC.

[leimad13]

I just copied it to a folder, dont even have to use software to view them as Explorer icons' options shows minatures. Like I said all photos are taken in the same resolution which is 3840x2160. Xperia itself adjust it to display them in proper manner but if you choose photos details from menu you can see the resolution which is one above. Vertical photo should be taken in "vertical" resolution of 2160x3840 (basically Width should be much less than Height). 

Tried to get more info about this photo and with "Photos" software on my phone if you go to details you can see "Orientation" parameter set to 90 for vertical photos. So phone takes photos in one resolution it seems and then just insert its own modyfier to rotate and display these photos properly. I believe this parameter is lost when doing simple drag and drop on these photos resulting in them being not rotated. 

Just my take on this, any other ideas let me know, cheers. Dan

[JiYong]

It looks like when the GPS information is stored, it also stores the orientation of the photo and leaves the Width with the highest value and height with the smaller value and it seems Windows Explorer can't cope with that.

When you open the photo with a "proper" application (like IrfanView), it will see the orientation (that is still stored in the EXIF information in the photo) and rotate the photo accordingly.

This is not a bug of the phone, it's a bug in Windows Explorer!