On 05/13/2012 01:33 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 5/13/12 12:30 PM, Ant wrote: >> On 5/13/2012 11:18 AM PT, David E. Ross typed: >>> >>> Photos taken with the iPhone upside-down or sideways are automatically >>> reoriented when displayed by the iPhone. There is a flag in the image >>> file that indicates the orientation of the iPhone when the photo was >>> taken and a sensor in the iPhone that indicates the current orientation. >>> >>> There has been much debate about whether to reorient photos in TBird and >>> SeaMonkey's mail-news according the the flag. See bug #298619 at >>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298619>. >> >> Wow! I thought there was something wrong with my old computer/SeaMonkey! >> Do I assume other e-mail clients, beside Mozilla's, do this too? I am >> getting more and more iPhone's sent photographs/photos. these days. :( > > I don't know about other E-mail clients. I understand that not all > digital cameras set the EXIF flag, especially older cameras. > > The real problem is that there are few (if any) tools to tweak the EXIF > flag. Thus, a photo that has been manually rotated (e.g., via > Micro$oft's Photo Editor) will be again rotated -- incorrectly -- by an > application that does check the EXIF flag because the sender was not > able to reset that flag. > > Frankly, I still consider photos from phones to be of poorer quality > than photos from an actual camera. I use a Canon digital camera and do > not have any kind of smart phone. I always view my photos and often > resize and crop them before sending them via E-mail. In the process, I > manually rotate those that require reorientation. > > I have yet to find a specification for the EXIF flag. Thus, I cannot > manually reset the flag with my hex editor if I manually rotate a photo. >
I think you may be looking for the Orientation Tag? Dec 274 Hex 112. See the EXIF spec(s) 2.2 or 2.3. This may be of some use (I've not tried it - yet): <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/exif-viewer/developers> <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/exif-viewer/> _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
