On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:08 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
Really doesn't matter to me at all. 10D photos auto-orient too, but
they're often wrong. If I set an orientation in review mode on the
DS, they orient correctly in every file viewer application I've seen.
Well for those of us who don't re-orientate each image using the
pre-view
screen of the camera (I don't even know if the *ist D works this
way) or don't
wish to have to corral together vertical shots and do a batch
rotate (I'm
talking thumbnails mainly) it's a right royal PITA. It's one of
those no real
excuse omissions to my mind.
I do it as I review my exposures in Bridge. I tend to look at them in
Slide Show mode, orienting them is a keypress. I just downloaded 600
files, walked through them and set the orientation on about half of
them in a couple of minutes. Just not a big deal to me.
It would be nice if the camera did it automagically, of course.
After recently reviewing 4500 trip shots where orientation was
changed often I
really don't appreciate that they left it out (especially when the
bottom
feeder cameras from other manufacturers and many P&S cameras do
it). I'm also
having some difficulty trying to fathom how a gravity based sensor
could lead
to incorrect orientation too, when would it be wrong?
When the angle of the body is ambiguous with respect to gravity...
like when angled sharply down or up. I seem to have many exposures
like that.
Godfrey
