Auto Image Rotation - Nikon D300 User Manual

Auto Image Rotation

(User's Manual – D300S page 304; D300 page 318)
Auto image rotation
displayed on your camera's
computer. Horizontal images are not affected by this setting.
The camera has a direction-sensing device so that it knows
how a picture is oriented
Depending on how you have
how you hold your camera's hand grip, the camera will
display a vertical image either as an upright portrait image,
with the top of the image at the top of the
lying on its side in a horizontal direction, with the top to the
left or right. The two selections are as follows:
▪ On – With
stores orientation information within each image,
primarily so that the image will display correctly in
computer software such as Nikon Capture NX and
ViewNX. In other words, the camera records, as part of
the image's metadata, whether you were holding your
camera horizontally or vertically (hand grip down) or
even upside-down vertically (hand grip up). The image
will display in the correct orientation on your camera's
Monitor only if you have
set to On. Auto image rotation
itself as to orientation, while
listen to the image and display it in the proper
orientation.
is concerned with how a vertical image is
Auto image rotation
Auto image rotation
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Monitor and later on your
LCD
turned On, the camera
Playback Menu > Rotate tall
lets the image speak for
Rotate tall lets the camera
set, and
screen, or