Uh huh ... Never thought to mention it as it seemed pretty obvious.
*ist DS manual page 64-65 mentions it, but doesn't make it obvious
that the orientation setting can be used by image processing
applications, it's usually used so that when you set the camera up
for display to a television the pictures show up oriented correctly.
I guess this is one of the potential "ten secret capabilities" of the
DS which the folks at Popular Photography never found out, eh?
Godfrey
On Aug 5, 2005, at 12:13 PM, John Forbes wrote:
Well, well.
It seems this is a feature found on the DS, but not on the D. I am
surprised I haven't seen it mentioned before.
John
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:36:48 +0100, Godfrey DiGiorgi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hadn't done it for a bit, so I decided to test. I made four
exposures with the DS, two set to JPEG *** and two set to RAW
format storage, one of each in portrait orientation.
- After making the exposures, I reviewed them on the DS' LCD and
set the two portrait
shots to the correct orientation.
- The SD card was put into a reader and the files dragged to a
folder on my desktop.
- iView Media Pro was used to view the files. All were the correct
orientation.
- Adobe Bridge was used to view the files, again all were the
correct orientation.
- Photoshop CS2 opens the JPEG files in the correct orientation.
- Camera Raw v3.1 opens the RAW files in the correct orientation.
So, it appears that the DS will properly assign orientation to the
image files, whether JPEG or RAW, presumably by changing a value
in the metadata, and the four image management/processing
applications I use are both aware and know of that setting.
The key is that I reviewed the images on the camera LCD, set them
to the correct orientation, and clicked the OK button before
moving to the next one. The camera writes to the image file and
tells you that. I imagine that if we could figure out what was
being set in the metadata specifically, we could get a batch
processing application to do this correctly and very quickly ...
just show all the thumbnails, aggregate-select all the ones that
need to be rotated, and write the correct value to the metadata.
But it's not a big enough problem for me to go do the work for all
that...
Godfrey
On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:54 AM, John Forbes wrote:
Are you sure? I'm sure it isn't possible with the D, and I
haven't heard that you can do it with the DS.
Also, why make it possible with JPEGs, but not with RAW?
John
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:02:04 +0100, Godfrey DiGiorgi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe that if I review my shots in-camera with the DS and
set the orientation correctly for each one, they transfer to
iView Media Pro and Photoshop correctly oriented... the JPEG
files and previews, but not the RAW files.
Godfrey
On Aug 5, 2005, at 5:45 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
"John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You HAVE to select each one individually at some point
Unless your camera automatically records camera orientation in
EXIF.
Next Pentax DSLR? Probably.
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Photography and writing
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