Windows 7 machine, that is because the raw image is in rotated position and On the other hand, if you see correct photo on Windows 10 but rotated one on a The orientation flag, some of the images will be shown as rotated due to the When I show these photos on my Windows 10 machine, since Windows 10 respects Smartphone is reporting the wrong orientation flags for some of the photos. Since the images myĬolleagues gave me are shown correctly on their Windows 7 machine, we can drawĪ conclusion that the raw images are in correct orientation. Orientation flag and show the images as is, i.e., the raw, un-rotated imagesĪre shown instead of the properly rotated images. Windows systems before Windows 8 does not take into account the Exif Now come to the issue in the beginning of this post. The end result is that youĬan see the correctly-oriented photo no matter how it is actually stored. Rotate the raw image based on the orientation info. Viewer can read the Exif info and respects that info, it will automatically When you use a photo viewer to check the image on your computer, if the photo Flag 2, 7, 4,ĥ represent mirrored and rotated version of images. Typically, you will only get flag 1, 8, 3, 6 for digital photos. The Exif orientation flag can have nine different values from 1 to 9 1. Orientation of the camera and writes that information into orientation flag in The digitalĭevice (be a smartphone or digital camera) has a sensor to record the Position, the raw photo you take is stored as a rotated image. When you are holding the camera with non-upright Image below from this blogīut no matter how you are holding the camera, if you check the image on yourĬomputer, the image is shown in correct orientation. With a camera, we may not always hold the camera in such a position that theĬamera top corresponds to top of the scene. Here, we are interested in the orientation meta info. A comprehensive list of tags and their related informations Info is called tags and each tag has a specific tag number decided by the Exifįormat standard. Maker, shutter speed, focal length, orientation, shooting time etc.

Some of the meta info in Exif includes camera Exif are storedĪlong with the actual image data. Meta-information about the images taken by digital cameras. How Does Exif Orientation Work What is ExifĮxif (Exchangeable image file format) is a protocol to store various

I was curious what happened and learned aboutĮxif and all its related stuff. (rotated 90 or 270 degrees) or upside-down (rotated 180 degrees). Those photos, I found that some of those photos were shown in portrait mode The photos were shown correctly in landscape mode. Some photographs taken with a smartphone. The other day I came across a strange bug during work.

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