Dreadful handling of 3:2 aspect ratio photos by Photos App on 5S with IOS 7

When you view photos that have 3:2 aspect ratio (a common standard from digital SLR cameras) in the Photos APP on the Iphone 5S with IOS 7, the software attempts to set each photo to fill the screen.  This in itself is extremely annoying, as the top and bottom of each photo is cropped, and there is no setting to stop this happening (i.e. to view the photo in its original aspect ratio with the black bars on the left and right).  However, there is a further irritating "bug" that means that each time you swipe to the next photo, it adjusts the position of the cropped photo giving a jump in the picture with every swipe.  This makes viewing multiple photos by swiping past them a completely negative experience, as there is a complete lack of smoothness to the visual experience.  By contrast, photos with aspect ratios that give wider black bars on each side are retained in their original aspect ratio (e.g. the ones from the phone's own camera) - but for some reason once the bars get smaller, the software chooses to resize the photo to fill the screen.  The fact that it does this for the standard SLR photo aspect ratio (not to mention a standard setting of many digital cameras) of 3:2 is really unfortunate.  A setting to stop any attempt to resice a picture (i.e. to view in the original aspect ratio no matter what that ratio) is clearly needed.  Additionally, a fix for the judder on each new photo is also required once it does fill the screen.
Anyone else noticed this - and any suggestions until it is fixed?

I've noticed it, too. It's very annoying. I am a "semi-professional" photographer (meaning every once in awhile someone pays me to take photos for them.) and I put many of my DSLR photos on my phone. It's a big pain to have to resize them on-screen each time. Wish there was a fix,

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