Autorotation

Does anyone ever use that autorotation function??
I find it just plain rediculous ! Why make the allready small image half as small again when you can just turn the camera abit...?
Have i missed something?Does anyone find good reason to use the function?

Don't worry, you can turn it off if you don't want to use it.
But I prefer turn on. I will zoom in if needed.

ron chappel wrote:
Does anyone ever use that autorotation function??
I find it just plain rediculous ! Why make the allready small image half as small again when you can just turn the camera abit...?
Have i missed something?Does anyone find good reason to use the function?

If you ever shoot a couple of hundred vertical shots and later manually rotate the thumbnails in Photoshop, then the reason for auto-rotation is obvious. Auto-rotation will save you many minutes - which turn into hours over the course of a year - of drudgery. Sure the review gets smaller and that is a bit of a pain, but nothing like the post production woes of non rotated verticals.

After disabling the beeps, it was the next thing that I enabled on my 10D, but YOU can always choose to turn it off.

..because checking images on the back LCD is small anyway you look at it--and you should be just checking the histogram.

If that saves me a step in Photoshop, so be it..!

Mmmm,don't i look abit stupid now

Somewhere along the line i got the idea that autorotate doesn't carry over to the computer.I'm not sure how something this bizzare happened......maybe my past use of another editing program didn't recognise the feature?

That's very possible. Autorotation actually doesn't rotate the picture in the camera. It just sets a flag in the EXIF that says "this picture is supposed to be rotated". It's up to the software on the computer to read that flag and adjust the picture accordingly.