Can I send photo via email not upside down?

Question

When I take photos on my iPhone 4s using the +volume button and then email them or synchronize with windows xp, photos are upside-down.

Answer 1

mfarqwa wrote:
SNIP
Dave Hutch wrote:
So if you forget about ever hearing of EXIF, my point should be clear...
You can't forget about exif, that's why it's there.
I didn't mean it that way. I meant forget about EXIF for a moment and realise that the iphones 'upright position' is with the volume buttons on the bottom, but now that Apple want you to use the volume button, the camera is now upside down.  Now, with the majority of iphone users, they're not using top end cameras and software, they're taking pictures and video of their kids - with the volume button - and sending it to grandma and grandpa - straight from the phone, either by mms or email - and they're receiving them upside down.
Yes, everyone should get with the EXIF program, but Apple should've also thought about which orientation they're default setting is, especially now that they've flipped it and changed the way we take pictures and video.
I have to admire your tenacity with this issue. Tempted as I might be to so something dismissive like "Things change, get over it" Lets look ahead to what might, in the future, provide what you want.
As it is now, given the processing power and memory of the iPhone 4S, Apple has been able to provide a wonderfully acceptable picture taking performance, good enough to even support the "Burst Mode" taking of a sequence of pictures very rapidly.
Perhaps, with the iPad 2S ( or iPad 3 as it may be called) there may be enough of an increment of hardware resources to provide in camera processing between shots. Even if they did provide that for still images, think about how much processing power would be needed to do an in camera reorientation of a large video file.
Realistically, this is a trade off in resource use that is unlikely to be possibe with even the next hardware generation beyond, the iPhone 5 or the iPad 4. Why would I say that? Because none of the high priced DSLR cameras attempt in camera processing. manipulating large matrices of pixels in a DSLR or an iPhone or an iPad is way beyond reason.
The bottom line is that if you share phots with folks whose computer is so old that they are still happily using Microsoft IE 6 ( for example) they are unlikely to even think of getting an upgrade to their video viewing software that is EXIF aware.
That leaves the onus on you and I to routinely do a "Save As...." operation on our video and still images, on our own computers, before we send them out to the older aunts and grannies of our families.
Suppose, Apple were to suddenly flip the relationship of the picture upright position and the volume button. Then you would have the millions of newer users suddenly as disturbed as you are. Apple is in a no win situation.
At my age (76) after decades of Mac support work starting in the days of my long departed Apple Lisa computer, I have come to accept the reality that "Things change, so I might as well get over it"
Your mileage may vary.
With kindest regards, and genuine compassion for your position.
John