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Why are photos taken in portrait format displayed as landscape when I run an album or memory? Within the library, and/or individually, they display correctly. Using MacBook Pro and latest version of Catalina.
Thoughts?
MacBook Pro Retina
We cannot know the schedule for bug fixes. If you want to get the attention of the developer team, send feedback about the problem. Feedback - Photos - Apple
I am not sure if this issue is a bug or an inconvenient feature. None of Apple's photo applications (Aperture, iPhoto, Photos) has ever respected the camera settings when developing RAW files. RAW files have always been treated as the naked RAW, without looking at any special settings added by the camera.
I checked just all my RAW photos taken with the Canon EOS 5D Mk II. They have all been taken in landscape orientation, so I cannot test your issue with portrait photos.
We cannot know the schedule for bug fixes. If you want to get the attention of the developer team, send feedback about the problem. Feedback - Photos - Apple
I am not sure if this issue is a bug or an inconvenient feature. None of Apple's photo applications (Aperture, iPhoto, Photos) has ever respected the camera settings when developing RAW files. RAW files have always been treated as the naked RAW, without looking at any special settings added by the camera.
I checked just all my RAW photos taken with the Canon EOS 5D Mk II. They have all been taken in landscape orientation, so I cannot test your issue with portrait photos.
I agree. Be interesting to know if -
The developers can't correct it if they don't recognise it as an issue.
Thanks each of you for your comments though. Appreciated.
Cheers
This is not something I have observed with any of the recent versions of Catalina, and I do not recall seeing other reports like this here.
Where did these photos originate? From an iPhone, an iPad, or a separate camera?
If it was a separate camera, what model camera, and how did you transfer them to your Mac?
Thanks for this.
Almost certainly a mixture of iPhone SE, Canon IXUS and Canon 5D MkII. iPhone via iCloud and or USB, IXUS via built in MacBook Pro card reader, 5D MkII via USB lead. I'll review individual photos and see if it is predominantly one source. I have 25,000 photos in the database. Also some will have been an import from my Synology NAS database as I have migrated from using Lightroom/Photoshop to Photos/Affinity.
I have been using photos for a number of years and it is only in recent versions of Catalina that this has become apparent. I'm pretty sure it's not the case that it has been a problem since first upgrading to Catalina. As I say within the Photos library and individually they dis[play correctly. Perhaps it's related to the size of the image?
Will come back to you once I've reviewed them.
Cheers,
Also some will have been an import from my Synology NAS database as I have migrated from using Lightroom/Photoshop to Photos/Affinity.
is your current Photos Library on the Synology NAS? Or has it been there previously?
Once upon a time but the current one is new, on the MacBook Pro. Hence some imports from a separate database on the NAS (Not a Photos library). I have just run some test photo imports from the Canon 5D MkII, some taken as CR2, some as jpeg. The CR2's only exhibit as landscape (ie when I click on the thumbnails or look at them in albums or slideshows), although the thumbnails display as portrait within the library.
It appears that Photos is happy to import CR2 files but when it comes to displaying portrait files it briefly displays them (a matter of msecs) as portrait then displays them as landscape.
It looks like the CR2 RAW files still need rotating. Photos is showing the thumbnails in the portrait orientation, probably the embedded JPEG thumbnails created by the camera, but the RAW file behind the thumbnail has not yet been rotated. when shooting Raw, there may be a discrepancy between the camera created JPEG thumbnails and the orientation of the RAW file, when Photos creates it own preview.
Understand you haven't checked any portrait RAW files. Perhaps you could trial a few to see if you can reproduce the problem, but don't worry if you can't.
I will send feedback though and see what happens from there.
Thanks
Sorry, no, I cannot take any new photos with the Canon EOS 5D Mk II. The camera got damaged during a field experiment, so I cannot take any more new photos with it. One of the students dropped it, and it hit the ground with the lens first. I am using a different camera now.
But I am seeing the same problem for the portrait orientation RAW files taken with my Panasonic LUMIX DMC FZ300. The orientation of the RAW file and the embedded JPEG thumbnail are having frequently a different orientation. It is natural, that the camera is developing the RAW differently from Photos.
That's helpful thanks. Yes, I think the issue for me is probably simply the limitations of the MacBook Pro display functionality. The images are automatically resized for display on the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV and have correct orientation. Will be interesting to see if it is corrected in the future or on newer MacBook Pros (mine is early 2015) - possibly not.
Thanks
It looks like it only applies to RAW files - CR2 files from Canon 5D MKII, many of which are around 30mb.
It won't be the end of the world to move to jpeg only but I prefer to use CR2 and would be a deficiency in Photos.
Feedback sent.
In addition I use iCloud Photos to sync with iPhone SE, iPad Air and Apple TV. No such issues with those.
Display of portrait photos in Photos
