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Images saved with wrong rotation if exif metadata switched off

Open ccaccb opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

Somehow since v5.1.0 images taken in portrait mode on my phone are saved 90 deg right rotated. This seems to be connected to the "Safe photo exif metadata" setting, which I used to have disabled.

I take landscape mode images by rotating my phone 90 deg left, because that feels natural to me, but I tested both variants. Landscape mode seems to be detected corretly (at least the icons are rotating when tilting the phone).

I am assuming landscape images should be saved such that a photo of e.g. a document with text taken in landscape mode can be read normally in portait mode.

exif ON exif OFF
Portait :heavy_check_mark: :x: image rotated 90 deg right
Landscape (rotate phone 90 deg left) :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
Landscape (rotate phone 90 deg right) :heavy_check_mark: :x: image rotated 180 deg

As a workaround I can enable the use of exif metadata but I'd rather prefer the images to be rotated correctly without the need to write any metadata.

ccaccb avatar Oct 07 '19 08:10 ccaccb