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Rotating images

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Your camera includes an orientation sensor that lets it figure out if you're shooting in portrait or landscape orientation. Your camera records the orientation of your shot in the metadata for each image. When you view the images on the back of the camera, or in an image editing program, the image should appear rotated correctly. Sometimes, though, the camera's rotation sensor gets confused, and the proper rotation data doesn't get recorded with the image. So to fix this, you can rotate images in camera. This rotation will actually change that rotation tag that gets stored with the image so that images will appear correct in your image editing application on your computer. If you're reviewing your images, and you come across an image that needs to be rotated, all you need to do is drop into the menuing system, and in the first page of the playback section, you will find an item for rotate image. Hit the Set button to go into there, and now what I have actually got is a full image…

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