Anyone Know How This Happened?

bkushner · Mar 21, 2023

Shot 5 photos today of a ship from my Mavic 3. As you can see 1 is vertical. Anyone know how this happened? Never saw that before.

Meta4 · Mar 21, 2023

bkushner said:
Shot 5 photos today of a ship from my Mavic 3. As you can see 1 is vertical. Anyone know how this happened? Never saw that before.

It's obviously been shot normally.
The glitch is in whatever program is showing you those thumbnails.

Ang · Mar 21, 2023

Meta4 said:
It's obviously been shot normally.
The glitch is in whatever program is showing you those thumbnails.

Unlikely, The drone probably did it. either way it can just be rotated.

Meta4 · Mar 21, 2023

Ang said:
Unlikely, The drone probably did it. either way it can just be rotated.

The Mavic 3 can only shoot images in landscape format.
There's no way it can rotate the camera to shoot in portrait format.

Dale D · Mar 21, 2023

bkushner said:
Shot 5 photos today of a ship from my Mavic 3. As you can see 1 is vertical. Anyone know how this happened? Never saw that before.

Not really sure but of course you can easily flip it in software

Richard R · Mar 21, 2023

Without measuring, the image in question looks like it was shot in 16:9 aspect ratio. I believe the default is 4:3 as it is with the other images.

Meta4 · Mar 21, 2023

Richard R said:
Without measuring, the image in question looks like it was shot in 16:9 aspect ratio. I believe the default is 4:3 as it is with the other images.

All of those images have the same pixel dimensions and all are 4:3 aspect ratio..

Meta4 · Mar 21, 2023

bkushner said:
Shot 5 photos today of a ship from my Mavic 3. As you can see 1 is vertical. Anyone know how this happened? Never saw that before.

When you open the image which appears to be rotated, does it open that way, or as normal?

bkushner · Mar 22, 2023

Meta4 said:
When you open the image which appears to be rotated, does it open that way, or as normal?

Rotated...I know I can easily flip it but I was just curious how it even happened.

Dumeinao · Mar 23, 2023

Meta4 said:
The Mavic 3 can only shoot images in landscape format.
There's no way it can rotate the camera to shoot in portrait format.

Well if you pull some serious G's for a few seconds you could get something close to vertical!

henchook · Mar 25, 2023

The image was obviously shot in landscape.

The drone almost certainly labeled it with the wrong orientation
(in the EXIF metadata Rotate Photos to be Upright - Sirv Help Center).

I frequently experience this when shooting with a phone at a strange angle, the landscape image is labeled as portrait and displayed sideways in the file browser, just like you're seeing.
Was it windy? Could be there was a momentary gust that made the drone decide it's at an angle?