Weird Photo Stretching Problem In Vista

[DAnDan]

This seems to be quite a weird problem, basically if I connect my phone to my computer to look at any photos, Vista appears to automatically stretch them out of size. They should be at 3264*2448, but they appear to be being stretched vertically into a square.

The image properties still report it as being the same resolution, but it definately is out of proportions. This also happens on a photo I downloaded taken on someone elses phone (same model), but not other photos.

I'm stuck on how to stop this happening .

 

[DAnDan]

Strange, Microsoft Office Picture Manager shows it correctly. But the thumbnails in explorer, and the default windows photo gallery still stretch it :S.

 

[DAnDan]

Even stranger, removing all the EXIF data stops it being stretched, but this isn't something I want to have to do to every photo I take.

 

[Smit]

Since other images are showing fine then I guess it is something to do with the phone.

Are you copying the images from the phone to your PC or just viewing them while they are still stored on the phone?

 

[DAnDan]

I tried both, same result from either.

After looking at the EXIF in more detail, it looks like the phone is recording the DPI incorrectly, once I remove the data it has a DPI of 96 both ways, but with the phone's EXIF data it uses the actual resolution of the picture.

Guess it's not a windows problem then. Which is going to make it harder to fix .

 

[SourChipmunk]

I have the same problem (in Vista only) with some old screen photo caps from my camcorder. It is almost like there was vertical interlacing in the pics that the Windows Photo Gallery can't decode properly. They work perfectly fine in other programs, though.

Edit: opening in Photoshop it tells me it is performing "Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction", and it results in a square, but it says it's for preview purposes only. If I attempt to save it, it looks normal.