On 1 Jan 2005 at 17:25, Jim Pendergraft wrote:

> Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
> 
> > On 1 Jan 2005 at 7:50, Julian Loke wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>>....well, that's my wish for 2005.
> >>>Embedded in the picture data, telling me which side of the picture
> >>>should be pointed down (IOW: which side of the picture was
> >>>*originally* pointing down, at the moment of shooting)...
> >>
> >>Hi WJM,
> >>
> >>My EOS 20D already does that (orientation data, not GPS). 
> > 
> > 
> > How exactly?
> > (any online text, perhaps even fancy Canon 
> > nomenclatura/abbreviation?....:))
> 
> Adobe Pshop elements 3 shows this in the exif data:
> 
> Orientation: Rotate -90
> 
> And it is smart enough to show the picture in the
> correct orientation using that. The manual for the 20D
> does say that the orientation sensor isn't reliable for
> pointing up or down. It will do + or - 90 - I haven't
> tried 180 :-)

Aha, nice.
And the 20D is the first EOS body to have this feature?

And what about the competition, anyone know?

Exclusive EOS-feature that hardly anyone knew of thusfar?....:))
--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink

      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand

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