Re: [gthumb-list] rotation during import process

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

> Actually I'm seeing that importing from the camera shows the image with
> wrong orientation, but putting the card in a card reader the importer
> shows the correct orientation. What does this mean?

That is normal.

The supporting software used to access the camera (the gphoto backend of 
gvfs) knows how to ask the cameras to provide a thumbnail, which is much 
faster than generating a new one. The camera does provide a thumbnail, 
but the camera doesn't bother to fix the orientation.

When you put the card in a card reader, the supporting software is 
different - it's just a USB mass storage device. A thumbnail is 
generated "manually" in this case (I forget which software handles it 
exactly), and the orientation is handled correctly (but the process is 
much slower).

Yes, it gets confusing.

- Mike