Terence Devlin wrote:
s definitely not working well with contemporary digital cameras.
Being more than 4 years old and therefore predating many, that's hardly a surprise.
I think it is a surprise. The rotate flag in the jpeg specification is some 15 years old...
The camera was actually connected without problems, transfer of pictures works well, both with iPhoto import and Nikon Transfer program.
Pretty funny is the way it handles pictures in portrait format: it shows them in portrait but does not rotate them. Modern cameras just add a flag in the header of the jpeg file and leave it to the picture viewer to rotate it. This bug alone is bad enough to make me want a more contemporary version of iPhoto.
Where are you looking? In the iPhoto Window? Because iPhoto makes a modified version of any photo with a rotation flag.
Thumbnails are displayed correctly, also edit pane, what fails is the slideshow, pictures are displayed as I said, portrait format but not rotated.
Pretty funny is also the way it sorts pictures chronologically: the youngest first. Very nice if you show your pictures in reverse order...
Again, where are you looking? In the iPhoto Window? Have you explored the options under the View menu?
Yes. There are exactly 6: by Film Roll, Date, Keyword, Title, Rating and Manually.
With five stars for rating, sorting this way is rather stupid, the same with keywords. Film roll is also not very helpfull, as it will show pictures simply grouped by transfer. Manually sorting 200 pictures in opposite direction is annoying. What remains is Date and Title. Date is reverse and Title is actually the file name, which works only as long as the filenames are continuous.
Just to answer your questions, but I do not intend to fix bugs with outdated software. I hope the new version will fix it.
Jochen
