FIXED: All my 360-pictures are now flat!?

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Went out and took 20+ photos using the Ricoh Theta S.

Uploaded them to my computer and did a quick check with the windows jpg-viewer - they are spherical and look like a smashed globe.
Viewed 1-2 in the spherical viewer app, they were sure 360-degrees and I could move around the view with my mouse button.

Now when I drag all the photos into spherical viewer, after it has decompressed/loaded I now only see flat “normal” images. I can no longer pan around the view. Same thing when I open the original .jpgs in windows jpg viewer now: they look flat/normal - no longer like a smashed globe!

Has something corrupted the images? As they have the same size as before (~8 mb) but they do not appear to be 360-photos anymore???

What has happened?

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This might help.

https://www.thexifer.net/#exif-general

Is it possible that your tool on Windows changed the metadata? Are you using the default image viewer in Windows?

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Hi Codetricity

Thanks for the help.

I’ve found the problem and it was totally due to myself (I feel bad even posting this).
It appears a colleague had updatet photos from his normal smartphone in the same folder I was looking in. So I was trying to view his normal photos with the spherical viewer. Now that I found the correct pictures they are all good in 360 degrees.

False Alarm! :blush:

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So glad you were able to solve the problem. Thank you for letting us know you resolved it. Have a nice day.