Re: rotating photos, updating EXIF info?

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:

GO> Does anyone else care about stuff like this? What do you do?
GO> (or, what do you think should be done)

I am sad to say I let the downloading software (Canon's own for my Digital
IXUS 330 on Mac OS X) do the auto rotate.

I know this could mean loss of quality, but maybe it is smart enough to
rotate the image loss-less. Either Canon was smart enough, knowing about
the loss and knowing EXIF that they do this in their software, or they
don't care about the quality loss by rotating the image in the normal
lossy way. (People that use their cameras and don't know about it don't
care, i.e. they sell cameras to them anyway and hence it would be a waste
of money implementing it.)

As I take all my photos on Super Fine level, I have not been able to see
any quality difference between a non-rotated and auto-rotated photo. But
then I am not a professional photographer and don't really know what to
look for.

Henrik