diff --git a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
index 81cabf23..e2c08795 100644
--- a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ function (pgfx_plot::PGFPlotsXPlot)(plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
                 "point meta min" => get_clims(sp)[1]
                 )
             )
+            if is3d(sp)
+                azim, elev = sp[:camera]
+                push!( axis_opt, "view" => (azim, elev) )
+            end
             axisf = if sp[:projection] == :polar
                         # TODO: this errors for some reason
                         # push!(axis_opt, "xmin" => 90)
diff --git a/test/test_pgfplotsx.jl b/test/test_pgfplotsx.jl
index aa21ef71..125ee529 100644
--- a/test/test_pgfplotsx.jl
+++ b/test/test_pgfplotsx.jl
@@ -86,8 +86,6 @@ end
            @test Plots.pgfx_axes(pgfx_plot.o)[1]["colorbar"] === nothing
            @test Plots.pgfx_axes(pgfx_plot.o)[1]["colormap name"] == "plots1"
         end
-        # TODO: wrong colors
-        # TODO: lines instead of patches
      end # testset
      @testset "Contours" begin
         x = 1:0.5:20