On 20 Feb 2003 at 4:04, Keith Whaley wrote:

> But I got to wondering, why would a camera need to know the orientation?

Well in the case of a any camera it may be used to weight the metering, and in 
the case of a digital camera it can be used by the image processing algorithms 
to set the orientation of the output image file otherwise all portrait 
orientated shots will be rendered sideways :-)

Cheers,

Rob Studdert
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