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Front facing camera pic flipped
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Every time I upload a front-facing picture it is sideways or upside down. When I go to change it, it always reverts back or stretches. This is with MobileMe.
If you think about, the live image you see is the screen is the one that is flipped but the result is the correct orientation.
If you point the front camera towards some text and look at the live image, the text has been flipped vertically and is unreadable, but when you snap a photo, the result and the text is the correct orientation and is now legible.
Front facing camera produces "mirror" image,... design flaw
Yes, I know the problem. I cannot believe they intentionally designed it this way. Seems pretty strange to me. I believe it can be fixed pretty easily in the software. Hopefully, in the next OS update! When you "snap" the picture, the stored image is the correct orientation. In the old cameras, the optical viewfinder, reversed the image the same way, as you see on the iPad screen. I hope their intent was not to emulate this archaic useless bit of "nostalgia", because that would be a really bad idea.
Yes, I know the problem. I cannot believe they intentionally designed it this way. Seems pretty strange to me. I believe it can be fixed pretty easily in the software. Hopefully, in the next OS update! When you "snap" the picture, the stored image is the correct orientation. In the old cameras, the optical viewfinder, reversed the image the same way, as you see on the iPad screen. I hope their intent was not to emulate this archaic useless bit of "nostalgia", because that would be a really bad idea.
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I think it's because people are so accustomed to looking at themselves in a mirror so they replicated that horizontal flipping for user comfort. If it's not flipped, you'd be surprised at how weird it seems (try with a desktop webcam sometime where you can turn the effect on and off).
