I've a problem to transfer the photo from my iphone 4s to PC by using windows 7, which cause the photo upside down regardless of what camera orientation I snap. Anyone has a solution and similar problem on it?

So just to clarify, you are holding the phone with the Volume Up button in the top right corner, pointing straight ahead and some photos show corrctly in Windows 7 and others don't?

What application are you viewing them in Windows 7 with?

Also, do the following...download Faststone Image Viewer (free) and see if the images are still wrong or whether they show correctly.

Be interested to hear your results

This is a Windoze bug, or more accurately the photo viewing software included with Windoze does not support the orientation flag values included with a photo' s EXIF data now being used/implemented by newer cameras and by the iPhone beginning with iOS4. This also speeds up the time is takes for a captured photo to be saved/processed.

http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/exif-orientation.html

Software Support for Orientation

While there are countless software programs available today that display JPEG images, only a subset of them actually interpret the EXIF Orientation flag. Just like color management, many programs simply display the JPEG image as it is stored, and completely ignore any extra details stored in the file's metadata. The most important of these additional details is the Orientation flag, stored in the JPEG APP1 marker under EXIF IFD0.

Not a problem with OS X on a Mac.

I am computer challenged, so although I understand the concept of the tech answer you received I don't know what that means for a fix. I am experiencing the same situation. Although I don't know what the fix is for the phone itself, I have found that when I transfer the photo to my pc photo program, in my case, WIndows Live Photo Gallery, the system allows me to go to the photo, click open, then click edit, then click on the triangle icon to rotate right or rotate left. Once I save the edited version it is available to email in the proper orientation. Hopefully someone will post an easy fix for those of us that only know how to follow instructions, not what we are doing! Good luck.

Doubtful there will be a fix for the iPhone itself since the iPhone is using a method to store the orientation flag with a photo's EXIF data - an open/available standard that more and more newer cameras are making use of. The fix lies with the photo viewing software you are using on your Windoze PC, which completely ignores the orientation flag included with a photo's EXIF data with photos captured by the iPhone which will be the same with newer camera making use of the same.

Although I've said exactly the same thing in other threads i.e it's the exif metadata tag that tells the software what way up the camera was, I was interested to hear that some images are correct whereas others are wrong.

What I'd like to hear from the OP is whether they all fine in Faststone Image Viewer.

If so, then yes, as we always suspected Windoze doesn't work particularly well, but if the images are still not showing corectly in some cases, I'd suggest looking at the exif data directly to see if the images are tagged correctly.

If I open up an iPhone 4 image in Photoshop it clearly shows the orientation tag...worth a look.

While this is a fairly old post i found this on the microsoft website about importing photos and it solved this same problem i was having

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/windows-phot o-viewer-or-live-photo-gallery-does/a161c8da-c1ce-4347-a92e-724f9e535c15