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Chris Green

Auto-rotation, or not?

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.

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Peter Albrecht

Re: Auto-rotation, or not?

Hi Chris,

same problem here with digiKam 4.4.0 (debian jessie). Including the issue with
manual rotation.

As a workaround:
I disabled auto-rotation at import. After importing all photos, I select every
photo in the current album (CTRL + A) and click in the main menu: "Image -> Auto
Rotate/Flip Using Exif Information"
This works correctly for me.

Regards,
Peter

On 01.08.2015 20:04, [hidden email] wrote:

> 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.
>

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Maik Qualmann

Re: Auto-rotation, or not?

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Which version of digiKam you use? With the current version, I can reproduce no
mistake with a sample image from the Web.

Maik

Am Samstag, 1. August 2015, 19:04:46 schrieb [hidden email]:

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Chris Green

Re: Auto-rotation, or not?

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Peter Albrecht <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> same problem here with digiKam 4.4.0 (debian jessie). Including the issue with
> manual rotation.
>
> As a workaround:
> I disabled auto-rotation at import. After importing all photos, I select every
> photo in the current album (CTRL + A) and click in the main menu: "Image -> Auto
> Rotate/Flip Using Exif Information"
> This works correctly for me.
>

But if I import several hundred images I don't want to have to go
through them all manually checking them, that's what computers are
for!

After some hassle I've added the required rotation to my Python import
program so that everything is correctly orientated (automatically)
before it gets to Digikam.

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Chris Green

Re: Auto-rotation, or not?

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Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Am Samstag, 1. August 2015, 19:04:46 schrieb [hidden email]:
> > 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@esprimo$ digikam --version
Qt: 4.8.6
KDE Development Platform: 4.14.6
digiKam: 4.7.0
chris@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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Maik Qualmann

Re: Auto-rotation, or not?

Am Dienstag, 4. August 2015, 14:53:23 schrieb [hidden email]:

> I can probably supply some as examples if needed.

Yes, a few sample pictures would be good.

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Chris Green

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Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 4. August 2015, 14:53:23 schrieb [hidden email]:
>
> > I can probably supply some as examples if needed.
>
> Yes, a few sample pictures would be good.
>
OK, it'll take a few days because I'm in France at the moment on the
end of a very slow internet connection. It will have to wait until I
get home in a week's time.

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