Originally posted by Mandi G'day
One of the features that I was quite keen on when I was researching digital cameras was automatic rotation of images because I shoot in "portrait" mode a lot. I understood "automatic rotation" to mean that if I took a picture in "portrait" mode (ie, with the camera held "sideways") that a sensor inside the K10D would detect that I had turned the camera and would download it to my computer in "portrait" mode - thus saving me the chore of turning 70% or more of my images before I can even start work on them. I have set "Saving Rotation Info" to ON and yet all my images transfer in "landscape" mode irrespective. What am I doing wrong?
Re: "What am I doing wrong?"
Nothing.
From my experience, that 'feature' just marks the image in EXIF as 'rotated'. It's up to the viewing program to read that and rotate the image during rendering. It does -NOT- rotate the image pixels' physically when you download it.
When I view the image in Pentax's supplied Photo Browser, the image is rendered as rotated. When I view the image in the built-in Windows XP Image Viewer, or post it to my Fotki account, the image is -not- rotated. reason being because neither Microsoft's viewer program, or the Fotki online service, read and react to the EXIF rotation information.
In the end, until more image rendering programs/services read and react to rotation info, you have to manually rotate your images.