[Digikam-users] Auto-rotation, or not?

[cl at isbd.net]

Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Am Samstag, 1. August 2015, 19:04:46 schrieb cl at isbd.net:
> > I have a Panasonic Lumix TZ60 camera, currently mostly still at the
> > default settings.
> > 
> > Pictures taken in portrait mode don't get auto-rotated when imported
> > into Digikam. In addition there's an even messier/worse problem, when
> > I rotate anti-clockwise to correct them they get rotated by 180
> > degrees instead of 90 degrees and I then have to rotate them back
> > again to get the correct orientation.
> > 
> > Is there a way to configure things so it all works correctly?  I want
> > the pictures to be correctly orientated when stored by Digikam so that
> > when exported to other places they will be correct.
> > 
> > I can manipulate things at import time because I do it using a Python
> > script I wrote myself.
>
> Which version of digiKam you use? With the current version, I can reproduce no 
> mistake with a sample image from the Web.
> 
chris at esprimo$ digikam --version
Qt: 4.8.6
KDE Development Platform: 4.14.6
digiKam: 4.7.0
chris at esprimo$ 

I'm importing images as created by the camera with a mix of 1, 6 and 8
orientation values in the exif orientation tag.

I can probably supply some as examples if needed.

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Chris Green
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