Emailing iphone 4S photos to someone arrive upside down

when emailing a photo from iphone 4s camera roll, it arrives from 90 degree rotation to upside down (180 degrees). What causes this?

I agree that Apple needs to fix this. For some reason, I do not remember this problem on earlier versions of iOS 4, but it may well have been there all along. But now that I have iOS 5, it seems that no matter how I take a photo--either in portrait layout or lanscape--it gets tilted when e-mailed from my iPhone and then viewed on a regular PC. Video can and does sometimes come out upside down. I found that I could use Windows Movie Maker to reorient the movie to right side up, but the process seems to double the file size..so a 2 minute video that is 170MB ends up being 330MB !  Somehow the orientation metadata is getting lost or corrupted. I've seen a couple of forum posts suggesting that Apple doesn't want to set an all-purpose "this way is up" metadata tag because there are, apparently, some folks out there who do really want to shoot pictures and video upside down. If that's the case, I'd suggest instead that Apple add a camera settings option in the "settings" section that allows for both an "always up" setting and a "fixed frame" so that idiots like me will always have their pictures and video orientented up while true artists can have the option to decide what is up and upside down. Until then, I have not yet figured out how to prevent post-picture e-mail photo orientation grief. Each e-mailed photo tends to be its own orientation surprise.

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