As Tobias explains this is a bug and already fixed, so please ignore my 
question and sorry for the noise.

Best regards

Chris


Am 08.12.2015 um 13:37 schrieb Christian Mandel:
> Am 08.12.2015 um 03:40 schrieb Steven Fosdick:
>> My guess is that the camera does not record the raw image data any
>> differently when held in portrait mode so the RAW file, as seen by
>> darktable, is still effectively landscape but there is a marker set by the
>> camera in the EXIF data that says something along the lines of "this was
>> taken portrait".  When darktable imports the picture it automatically
>> applies the orientation module to get the picture into portrait orientation
>> and that therefore counts as a modification.
>
> That explanation sounds reasonable, however, ...
>
>> If I go to one of my portrait pictures and turn off the orientation module
>> it reverts to landscape.
>
> ... this does not happen for me (at least not if done by removing the
> history). If I take a portrait oriented picture and revert all changes
> by clicking on 0 on the history stack, the picture is still vertically
> oriented. It seems that the modules stay on independent of the history
> stack. Nevertheless, the "changes" marker disappears for this picture.
> If I switch all modules off manually, the picture orientation changes to
> landscape, I get a weird whitebalance etc. However, the picture is
> marked as changed. Clicking on "discard" in the lighttable's history
> stack module reapplies the three initial modules and marks the picture
> as changed.
>
> For landscape pictures, the behaviour is more or less exactly the same.
> There's only one difference: it is not marked as changed. When I enter
> the darkroom the 3 modules, including rotation, are applied
> automatically and the picture is marked as changed. This mark is removed
> by the "discard" button.
>
> Up to now, I thought of the "changes" marker as a way to tell if I see
> the embedded preview from the raw or an actual development preview of
> darktable. But it seems I misunderstood the concept. The manual is not
> very specific about this marker (or I missed an important part).
>
> For me, after all, it feels somehow inconsistent, it would be great if
> anybody could explain (or link to an explanation of) the exact behaviour
> and the reasons behind.
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Chris
>
>
>> On 7 December 2015 at 09:21, Christian Mandel <c.man...@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> for a while I wonder that freshly imported images are randomly marked as
>>> changed (with the +-wave icon). Now it seems that I have discovered a
>>> pattern: it affects only the portrait oriented images (Canon 5DII), and
>>> probably all of them. The dt version is 1.6.9, 64 bit on ubuntu 15.04,
>>> build from Pascal's ppa (1:1.6.9-0pmjdebruijn1~vivid). Checking older
>>> film rolls it seems that this only happens with recent dt versions and
>>> that it happens during import. Do you have an explanation?
>>>
>>> Thanks & best regards
>>>
>>> Chris
>
>
>
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