Geometry

[speach]

This has been happening lately even though my camera is always in the same alignment on the scope. Some of the picture, in a given exposure sequence are 'landscape' and an occasional one is in portrait, that's not the problem though. When I come to process them I'll get a failure because of the geometry, ok I'll then find the offending pictures and rotate them to landscape. This means that I have to do each one individually and this can take a long time if 30 or 40 exposures need to be done.  Finally here is the question, is there a process that can rotate and save them in a block? BTW I'm quite new to PI.

[pfile]

this is a DSLR, right? it's a little odd since i thought the DCRAW decoder that PI uses would ignore the orientation and always load the file in portrait mode. are you using PI to calibrate and stack the CR2 files or are you converting them to TIFF with some other application before going into PI?

the other thing is that you can turn off the orientation in the camera so it stops writing the EXIF data with the camera orientation.

i'm not aware of any easy way to identify which pictures are wrong, but if you want to do a batch rotate on images you have identified, you can use ImageContainer - search for that and you'll see examples of how to use ImageContainer.

rob

[speach]

yes it's dslr and I use the .cr2 files And I'll look for image container
Thanks

[Juan Conejero]

No need to rotate any images. Just select the "Pure Raw" preset on RAW Format Preferences:

http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=8226.0

To open this dialog box, open the Format Explorer window and double-click the DSLR_RAW format item.

[speach]

Thank you, it's working a treat now!

[pfile]

sorry for the bad advice, i thought that DSLR_RAW would ignore that metadata no matter what it was set to.

rob