Automatic rotation of pictures from Minolta 7d/5d

[c-soft]

Hello everyone, and I'm sorry for English language, just want to pass the message but I don't know German well enough.

For a long time now I've been annoyed by the fact that my KM 7d has inclinometer, but there's no software that would automatically rotate my vertical pictures.

As a result I have written program that helps: it converts Minolta-specific orientation info into proper EXIF-compliant tag. As a result, after using my program one can use every other auto-rotating tool to do the rest (see Picasa as simple and free, but there are many others too).

The program its free, source code and binaries are available through sourceforge.
If you would like to try it out, the link is: http://orient-fixer.sourceforge.net/

Every feedback is very welcomed.
Thanks,

c-soft

PS I have joined this forum to let you know about this program, if this makes you suspicious, please feel free to shoot me an email first.

[Basti]

Hi,
can you give me a short explanation how your Tool works? Where did you get the Orientation Info?
Thanks in advantage
Basti

[c-soft]

Its really very simple: the orientation information is already embedded within the jpeg produced by Konica Minolda 7d/5d. However, instead of using standard "orientation" field of EXIF, folks at Konica Minolta decided to use vendor-specific section of EXIF header.
For that reason none of the free programs like Picasa or Xnview can auto-rotate JPEGs produced by KM DSLR.

So my tool looks into JPEG file, reads proprietary orientation setting and if standard EXIF tag is different than that - it corrects it. So, to rotate your jpeg files you need to:
1) Download them from camera.
2) Run my tool on them.
3) Open them in Picasa or Xnview - voila!

BTW, all of that is accessible in FAQ at: http://www.clearsoft.pl/minolta-rotation-fixer/frequently-asked-questions.html
Hope that helps.