Download question

[Wickedfn4u]

How come when I have the auto rotate on my 10d set to yes and do a download in scan and camera wizzard it does not rotate?

[westgorge]

I think (?) that the auto rotate function only works when previewing on the camera LCD and when connected (via the video cable from the camera) to a tv. I may be wrong.....

Jeff

[ron chappel]

I think that's right
pretty lame huh?
But i wonder if they avoided such a feature because it would take up proccessor time? :?

[RichardtheSane]

Some image editing software also used the rotate flag in EXIF. If I donload in PS then either raw or jpeg will rotate automatically. Capture one does the same.

However windows is stupid, and doesn't :lol: :?

[dtrayers]

An image can just have the EXIF flag indicating it should be rotated or the image itself can be rotated. I believe that the Canon software reads the EXIF flag an shows the image in the correct orientation, but doesn't actually rotate the image.

When you rotate an image depending on the application the image may lose a little quality. The better applications will have 'lossless rotation'.

I'm pretty sure that rotating an image with Windows viewer is not lossless.

I do know Breezesys's DownloaderPro will read the EXIF flag and it will rotate the actual image during download with no loss of quality. After downloading with Downloader you can view the image in any application and it will be correctly oriented. It does add a little bit to the download processing overhead, but not really noticable.

[Wickedfn4u]

I am not to worried about the download time, heck if it did it at the same time it would save me all the time I waste doing it manual.