Amcrest IP3M-956 In portrait mode

[Melvin]

Hi,

There is an option for mirror as well as flip when you click on that image. If that does not work its best to change it from PC.

[Hdhead]

Both of the options do exactly the same thing, produce a mirror image. Disappointed that all literature says the camera can be set up from a mobile device. If I knew it needed a PC I would not have purchased since it don't own one. Are there engineers that might be able to help?

[Hdhead]

It would seem to me as with all cameras I've used the lense as to be physically positioned correctly to get the aspect ratio desired. In this case the lense would have to be rotated 90 degrees to get the desired landscape view. Am I off base? Problem is it is mounted on a horizontal soffit then the lense is tipped up to see the target. Can't figure how the lense can be rotated in this configuration? Must be someone else who has had this problem?

[markcm]

I have the same question, can the lens be rotated 90 degrees to adapt to the aspect ratio? My camera is mounted horizontally which creates a tall and skinny image yet I need a short and wide image.

[bw355]

Not sure about the IP3M-956 but, if it's anything like IP2M-841, it is in the settings\camera\configuration section. From there, you should see a "Flip" section where you can choose 90, 180, 270 degrees.

[markcm]

Yes, this can be done but everyone including Amcrest is missing the objective. The lens has a physical property that creates a proportional viewing aspect of either tall/skinny or short/wide. When you alternate the camera' mounting orientation between a vertical or horizontal mounting position this characteristic is physically changed, software flip/mirror will do nothing to change this.

Solution:

To change this aspect to your liking (tall and skinny vs short and wide), physically rotate the front half of the camera lens housing 90 degrees to change the orientation of the aspect proportions.

Remove the dome and twist the front half of the camera lens body; there is a seam just behind the outer edge of the IR LEDs where it will allow you to twist the front of the lens housing.

For a short and wide view with the camera mounted horizontally, rotate the front lens housing so that the photo sensor is top center and led's are equally distributed across the top (or in my case with the camera inverted, the bottom) half of the lens housing. If you are mounted vertically and want a short/wide view, rotate the front of the lens housing so that the Photo sensor between the IR LEDs is either on the left or right. Simply put, if you want "the other option" rotate the front half of the lens housing 90 degrees.

After this physical adjustment, you may need to use the software setting of flip or mirror to make your image appear upright.

In this picture I am pointing to the seam where the lens housing is separated and can be rotated.

Rotate Dome camera lens to change aspect ratio orientation

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[noyolo]

Hi there!
I will give some advice:
1) try to download special utilities for this, read in Google
2) if the phone allows you to install photoshop, then try through it
about him you can read on FixThePhoto

[harris92]

Of course, I'm very sorry that these elementary settings are not intuitive, but in principle, you can figure it out. At first, everything seems to be complicated, even with my portrait camera Canon EOS 80D, at first everything was tight, but later I figured it out.