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August 30, 2008
Landscape and Portrait
I'm sorting through the pictures I took all week during the Democrat National Convention in Denver this week. After burning a set onto DVDs on my MacBook to give out to friends, I double-check that the DVD burned correctly by putting it into my other computer, which is a Windows PC.
The pictures I took in portrait mode -- by turning the camera 90 degrees -- display correctly in Mac OS X's Preview application, and after I upload them to the web.
But when I view the pictures in Widows Picture and Fax Viewer, the default viewer in Windows XP, the pictures are displayed in landscape mode on their side.
For example, see the picture I took of R.F.K.and R.A.K. earlier this week:
This happens to pictures taken both with the Canon XTi and Panasonic FX-33.
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer does have a tool to rotate pictures manually; see the fourth set of buttons between the magnifying glass and the red X on the toolbar below the picture. (See a demonstration in this video).
However, rotating pictures with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (or Photo Gallery in Windows Vista) may lead to a loss of quality and loss of EXIF data in the picture. I'm going to test that out.
But even if manipulating pictures in Windows wasn't lossy, I still have to deal with going through over a thousand pictures to find the ones that have to be rotated, because most of the people I'm giving these DVDs to are using Windows, and Windows won't display them correctly by default.
I really don't have to do that -- and I've already made a bunch of DVDs before discovering this issue -- but I think it would be lame of me not to. Surely Microsoft could do better.
Posted by Robert Racansky on August 30, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Comments
I think that Apple is automagically rotating them for you. I'm not clear that Microsoft is necessarily the culprit, as I think other Windows applications would display them in the same manner as Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. More to the point, I wonder how they'd look on a Mac if you opened them in PhotoShop.
Posted by: Rob Kiser on August 30, 2008 at 7:52 PM
okay now that we are back to the normal amount of mayhem with the dems gone..........I gotta say your "shenanigans" made my jaw drop. Used to be able to walk in places where I'm not supposed to be..........crashed a few company parties and wedding receptions myself.
But I bow your crashing abilities, along with your photography.
Posted by: Chick Voice on August 31, 2008 at 7:56 AM
Many thanks. Robert and I just sort of stumbled into the Kennedies, but we did have a ton of fun running around all week and shooting the mayhem. The whole ordeal was mainly because my neighbor told me I couldn't go and/or wouldn't get in. I was like "watch me". Photo opportunities were astounding, of course. Like shooting fish in a barrel. :)
Posted by: Rob Kiser on September 1, 2008 at 12:40 AM