On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:03:23 +0000, Chiefy wrote:

> 25 Jan 2006 19:34 UTC, Beef typed:
>> I wrote to short scripts to rotate the images, but it occured to me
>> that some cameras store the orientation of the image.
>
> Have a look at one of the programs that can read EXIF data. 'exif' or
> 'exiftags' for example.
>
> 'exif *.jpg |grep Orientation'
>
> yields a list that you could utilise in a script to rotate
> automatically.
>
> Did you have to enable the orientation sensing in the camera? I've been
> looking at some pics taken by someone else using a Fuji A330. They're
> mixed landscape and portrait format, yet the output of the above command
> reports 'Top, Left-Hand' for all.

I've had a quick look at some of my photos using exiftags.

Pictures taken with my old Sony camcorder all have the same value for the
orientation field, regardless of the way I held the camera.

Pictures taken with my newer Canon have a correct value for this field.

My scripts use convert to rotate the image; the field is not updated.

Thanks for your help,

Beef.