Automatic rotate/orientation now broken?

It appears to me (on two computers) that installing the recent Apple Camera Raw 2.3 (or another recent Apple update) has caused Aperture to no longer properly perform the automatic rotation of portrait oriented photos. Is anyone else having this experience?

For both my Nikon D700 and D300, when importing portrait oriented photos they are no longer being automatically rotated. Additionally, the imported image metadata is being set correctly and manually rotating a portrait photo (that is appearing sideways, i.e., landscape, but with metadata saying "portrait") changes the orientation but also changes the metadata to say "landscape".

This appears to be the case only when importing directly from the memory card (via a card reader). If I copy the photos to the hard drive first and then import them, it seems to work fine.

Is anyone else experiencing this bug? Can you pinpoint it to the recent Camera Raw 2.3 update? Is Apple aware of the issue?

Mac Pro/MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5), Aperture 2.1.2/Camera Raw 2.3

Posted on Nov 6, 2008 2:00 PM

51 replies

Dec 22, 2008 5:44 AM in response to phildogginit

Thanks everyone! Thanks Apple!!!

Kevin

Pistol

Level 1

70 points

Dec 22, 2008 6:30 AM in response to Pistol

UPDATE:

Installed RAW Camera Update v2.4 and everything works as it should with Sony A700 cRAW files!

jlophoto

Level 1

5 points

Dec 22, 2008 6:51 AM in response to F Harvell

Yep! Everything is working now with my system in regards to CameraRaw. I have some new things happening to Aperture, but I am not sure why nor why yet.

Thanks for the fix, Apple!

Dec 24, 2008 9:35 AM in response to JUN48

word. THIS ISSUE IS NOT FIXED APPLE. I don't use camera raw - and I generally only shoot JPEGS. My images are showing up with the wrong rotation on web pages and in the finder preview thumbnail, but correctly in PS, Bridge, etc. Highly effed up!

Message was edited by: Daniel Cardenas

JUN48

Level 1

100 points

Dec 26, 2008 8:07 PM in response to JUN48

I edit EXIF tag "Orientation" in reference Master Image Jpeg File
by 'exif2' command,
It reflects in browser Orientation field (by selecting version ?)
and recovers this issue.

--caution --
This operation has side effects , some IPTC tag "caption" of edited version cleared
randomly.

Jan 4, 2009 4:38 PM in response to F Harvell

Well I can confirm that the Apple Camera Raw 2.4 update fixes this issue with my D40x using a Sandisk USB 2.0 card reader.

BUT the images that were previously imported without being rotated (which I then manually rotated thereby changing the orientation flag to horizontal) are still listed as horizontal even though they appear in a vertical orientation. Oh well. Hopefully this doesn't get messed up later on. At least its only a few images.

Message was edited by: GraemeSmith

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Automatic rotate/orientation now broken?