5D MkII image playback w/Auto Rotation

This one has been bugging me for awhile so I thought I'd ask here.... It is my understanding that if I turn on "Auto Rotation" in the 5D MkII's Setup Menu 1, then any photos taken in portrait orientation will, upon playback, be automatically rotated on screen as I turn the camera.

That's EXACTLY how it worked in my previous Canon D-SLRs. But, for some reason, it doesn't seem to work on my 5D Mark II. I have checked, and triple-checked that Auto Rotation is turned on. Yet, nothing happens on playback. The portrait images are always displayed as if I am holding the camera in portrait position and the landscape images are always displayed as if I'm holding the camera in landscape position, regardless of how I am actually holding the camera.

Suggestions?

BTW, I only shoot RAW (no matching JPEG). Could that be it?

Mark

Any other 5D MkII owners figured this out?

Mark

hmmm... maybe your sensor is bad?

[maybe your rotation sensor is bad] heh

My 5dm2 works as you described, it rotates the portrait images in both raw and jpeg modes, as you would expect auto rotation to do. Maybe you need to reload the firmware ?

Thank you lannes! I guess I should have asked about this sooner because my 5D MkII hasn't auto-rotated images in playback since I bought it. That's through 2-3 firmware updates. So, now that it's out of warranty, I guess I'll either forget about it, or see if Canon will take pity on me.

Thanks again!

Edit: My 5D MkII is working the way it is supposed to. If in setup menu 1, I set Auto Rotation to on with both the little icon of the camera and the little icon of the computer, and then take a photo in portrait mode, on playback the image is displayed upright (but narrow) in landscape mode.

The issue I was asking about in my original message was that I (perhaps erroneously) remembered that my previous digital SLR (1D Mark II) automatically rotated the image WHILE I was looking at the LCD during playback. If I turned the 1D MkII camera's orientation, the playback image rotated in unison. That's what I though the 5D MkII was supposed to do. Obviously not.

Mark

Mark Booth wrote in post #9721638
Thank you lannes! I guess I should have asked about this sooner because my 5D MkII hasn't auto-rotated images in playback since I bought it. That's through 2-3 firmware updates. So, now that it's out of warranty, I guess I'll either forget about it, or see if Canon will take pity on me.

Thanks again!

Edit: My 5D MkII is working the way it is supposed to. If in setup menu 1, I set Auto Rotation to on with both the little icon of the camera and the little icon of the computer, and then take a photo in portrait mode, on playback the image is displayed upright (but narrow) in landscape mode.

The issue I was asking about in my original message was that I (perhaps erroneously) remembered that my previous digital SLR (1D Mark II) automatically rotated the image WHILE I was looking at the LCD during playback. If I turned the 1D MkII camera's orientation, the playback image rotated in unison. That's what I though the 5D MkII was supposed to do. Obviously not.

Mark

On preview straight after taking the portrait shot, my 5dm2 shows the portrait on it's side, if I hit the play button it rotates to the vertical.

Mark Booth wrote in post #9716269
This one has been bugging me for awhile so I thought I'd ask here.... It is my understanding that if I turn on "Auto Rotation" in the 5D MkII's Setup Menu 1, then any photos taken in portrait orientation will, upon playback, be automatically rotated on screen as I turn the camera.

That's EXACTLY how it worked in my previous Canon D-SLRs. But, for some reason, it doesn't seem to work on my 5D Mark II. I have checked, and triple-checked that Auto Rotation is turned on. Yet, nothing happens on playback. The portrait images are always displayed as if I am holding the camera in portrait position and the landscape images are always displayed as if I'm holding the camera in landscape position, regardless of how I am actually holding the camera.

Suggestions?

BTW, I only shoot RAW (no matching JPEG). Could that be it?

Mark

Can see this is an old thread I'm resurrecting ...

Mark, or anyone, did you ever manage to get images to rotate correctly on the PC, please? This is really bugging me as it's the only thing stopping me from tethering.

SuffolkGal wrote in post #17342013
Can see this is an old thread I'm resurrecting ...

Mark, or anyone, did you ever manage to get images to rotate correctly on the PC, please? This is really bugging me as it's the only thing stopping me from tethering.

I don't remember how my camera is set up, but when I am viewing on the camera LCD the pictures are displayed as their regular orientation. Landscapes are normal and portraits I have to rotate the camera to view. But when I load them to the computer via tether or memory card reader the pictures are all loaded facing upright on my computer.

I like having the portrait pictures in portrait mode because I get more detail on the screen, I don't mind rotating the camera to view them if needed.