Different Camera Flip problem
 

Hi,

My N800 arrived a couple days ago, and I appear to be having a camera flip problem that differs from the one reported by others on this forum.

My problem is only exhibited when the camera faces me (i.e. when i'm looking at the screen of the N800, and the camera is pointing at my face). When the camera is pointed away from me (yet when i'm looking at the screen), everything works fine. If i rotate the n800 by 90, 180, 270 degrees - it flips the image properly so that whatever i'm pointing it at is always the right way up.

However, when I am looking into the Nokia screen, and the camera points in my direction.. I have problems.

When the N800 is held normally (so that the word nokia spans from left to right), the image is correct. if I flip the device by 180 degrees, such that the word Nokia is upside down (yet I still am looking at the screen), the image flips correctly, and I am again looking at own image - and not an upside down head.

However, when the N800 is rotated by another 90 degrees, such that either the buttons are at the top, or very bottom, then the image is upside down.

it's very strange. When the camera points the other direction, the image flips correctly no matter which way I hold the N800. yet when the camera points towards me, it only flips the image properly in 2 of the 4 possible rotations.

Anyone else experienced this? Will I have to RMA it?

Cheers

Chris

Re: Different Camera Flip problem
 

I really can't understand your post.

But if you hold the tablet upright, with the screen and camera facing you, you should see your upright face. Rotate the webcam backwards, and when the lens passes the plane of the faceplate the image will flip so that the scene opposite you is oriented properly.

Anything other than that, in any form at all, is a hardware problem.

Re: Different Camera Flip problem
 

This is just the way a camera like that works - if you work it out, that's how it's supposed to work, since it flips left and right in the process of displaying the image, meaning that if you rotate to 90 degrees it's now flipping top-bottom to you and not left-right.

Re: Different Camera Flip problem
 

yeah, there's nothing with that. the device doesn't have an accelerometer so it just flips the image upside down when you rotate the camera. that's how it's supposed to be.