Doesn’t anyone test anything anymore?

I snapped a picture of my Pac Man t-shirt using my Motorola MPx220 cell phone in its “self portrait” mode: where the viewfinder is echoed onto the screen that is on the outside of the flip phone. Thinking about it for a second, I had a moment’s inspiration and took another picture.

Reversed photos

This error apparently only occurs in the mode where you use the phone when closed, but for God’s sake man. Doesn’t anyone test these things at all?

Addendum: Oh, the phone doesn’t seem to have any way to flip the image left and right either.

One thought on “Doesn’t anyone test anything anymore?”

  1. Dan Lyke

    Is there enough info in the EXIF tags that you could detect this and use jpegtran to automatically flip the image losslessly?

    Editor’s note: It doesn’t appear that the camera writes any EXIF tags at all.

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