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is there a proper way to see portrait photos ?

colonelbutt

colonelbutt

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is there anyway of preventing auto-swivvel from portrait to landscape when looking at pictures ?

sometimes I take pictures vertically. Its impossible to see them full screen on the iphone without looking sideways while holding horizontally
 
colonelbutt said:
sometimes I take pictures vertically. Its impossible to see them full screen on the iphone without looking sideways while holding horizontally
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Can you post an example pic so we can see what you mean? I'm having a hard time working out why you wouldn't look at a portrait photo with the iPhone vertical and a landscape photo with the iPhone horizontal.
 
alFR said:
Can you post an example pic so we can see what you mean? I'm having a hard time working out why you wouldn't look at a portrait photo with the iPhone vertical and a landscape photo with the iPhone horizontal.
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think about it:

i take a normal landscape picture with my SLR.
I put on iphone.
looking at iphone portrait mode shows the picture with a black band at the top and the bottom.
I turn the iphone 90 degrees and now I see the portrait picture in portrait mode, i.e. the iphone lying on its side.
all a-ok !

now take this example.
I take a picture with my slr holding the camera at 90 degrees to get a full body shot.
I put on iphone
looking at iphone in portrait mode shows the picture on its side with black bands above and below.
when I turn the phone into portrait, the picture now fills up the whole screen, but it is still on its side.
If i turn back to portrait to try and see properly i get black bands again.

- get it :)
 
colonelbutt said:
think about it:

i take a normal landscape picture with my SLR.
I put on iphone.
looking at iphone portrait mode shows the picture with a black band at the top and the bottom.
I turn the iphone 90 degrees and now I see the portrait picture in portrait mode, i.e. the iphone lying on its side.
all a-ok !

now take this example.
I take a picture with my slr holding the camera at 90 degrees to get a full body shot.
I put on iphone
looking at iphone in portrait mode shows the picture on its side with black bands above and below.
when I turn the phone into portrait, the picture now fills up the whole screen, but it is still on its side.
If i turn back to portrait to try and see properly i get black bands again.

- get it :)
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a


So there first suggestion is valid. Some cameras have an accelerometer on then that notes the orentation of the camera ask that photos are correctly displayed on digtal media. Others will require you rotate the photo in somehong like iphoto or adobe photo software first.
 
colonelbutt said:
I take a picture with my slr holding the camera at 90 degrees to get a full body shot.
I put on iphone
looking at iphone in portrait mode shows the picture on its side with black bands above and below.
when I turn the phone into portrait, the picture now fills up the whole screen, but it is still on its side.
If i turn back to portrait to try and see properly i get black bands again.
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Oh, my head! :D

Mind you I have just taken a portrait photo… imported into my iPhone via iPhoto… when I view it in lanscape it has bars on the side. When I turn it to portrait it displays perfectly.

But then again I am not using an SLR… just a Canon Ixus 55… :eek:
 
colonelbutt said:
I take a picture with my slr holding the camera at 90 degrees to get a full body shot.
I put on iphone
looking at iphone in portrait mode shows the picture on its side with black bands above and below.
when I turn the phone into portrait, the picture now fills up the whole screen, but it is still on its side.
If i turn back to portrait to try and see properly i get black bands again.

- get it :)
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Not really - I just checked on mine now, and shots taken with my SLR display like this:

Portrait photo, iphone upright - photo right way up, fills whole screen.
Landscape photo, iphone upright - photo right way up, black bars above and below.
Portrait photo, iphone on its side - photo right way up, black bars left and right.
Landscape photo, iphone on its side - photo right way up, fills whole screen.

I still don't see the problem....
 
memesmith said:
a


So there first suggestion is valid. Some cameras have an accelerometer on then that notes the orentation of the camera ask that photos are correctly displayed on digtal media. Others will require you rotate the photo in somehong like iphoto or adobe photo software first.
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the problem is real. my canon packs more detail into the photo then most other cameras.

the point is, as suggested above, the only way to do it is to process the portrait photos before syncing with the iphone. this is something I will not do, I want the iphone, like my HTC devices, to be able to take a picture straight out of the camera and show it properly.

the only way to do it for apple to create a 'hold rotate' function on the iphone.
 
alFR said:
Not really - I just checked on mine now, and shots taken with my SLR display like this:

Portrait photo, iphone upright - photo right way up, fills whole screen.
Landscape photo, iphone upright - photo right way up, black bars above and below.
Portrait photo, iphone on its side - photo right way up, black bars left and right.
Landscape photo, iphone on its side - photo right way up, fills whole screen.

I still don't see the problem....
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thats because either you have re-orientated your photos into new jpgs on your imac/PC or have used a transfer program that does that automatically.

i just want to copy/sync. direct.
 
Ah, I see. Yes, all my stuff is in iPhoto so it's rotated into the correct orientation for display there.

How (and why) are you going to copy stuff straight from your camera to the iPhone?
 
alFR said:
Ah, I see. Yes, all my stuff is in iPhoto so it's rotated into the correct orientation for display there.

How (and why) are you going to copy stuff straight from your camera to the iPhone?
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actually i just copied off the pics from my CF card onto my PC.
then I used itunes to sync with the iphone.

listen, I love the auto-rotation thing and I love my iphone, I just want a 'hold rotation' feature.

i was hoping there was one I haven't found .....
 
Solution!!!!

1) Get to the picture you want to see in portrait mode
2) Rotate the phone WHILE HOLDING one finger onto the screen, wait for 1 seconds and just release.

That should lock that particular photo in portrait until you make another gesture, rotate the phone or bouble-tap the screen.

youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogyR2Sl3O_8

Definitely easier than going back to your PC to rotate each photo.

-A
 
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