Incorrectly rotated M10 photos following Lightroom CC import

[ashwinrao1]

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HI everyone, I am seeking the advice and input from this expert group. I have been shooting the M10 without issue until 2 nights ago. I came home, imported by photos into adobe Lightroom, but the images are all improperly oriented. The landscape images are generally updside down, while portrait oriented shots are oriented as landscapes. I tried resetting the camera. I also tried taking the battery out, tried a new SD card, and finally tried another computer, a separate Lightroom, and ultimately iPhoto, with the problem being consistently reproducible. I had now issues downloading nearly 2000 images until this cropped up, and now it's a consistent problem.

 

Has anybody else had this issue? Am I being ignorant to some setting in the camera or lightroom? I figured that since I am reproducing this accross computers and via different software, it's a camera issue. 

 

 

Your thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated in advance.

[vikasmg]

HI everyone, I am seeking the advice and input from this expert group. I have been shooting the M10 without issue until 2 nights ago. I came home, imported by photos into adobe Lightroom, but the images are all improperly oriented. The landscape images are generally updside down, while portrait oriented shots are oriented as landscapes. I tried resetting the camera. I also tried taking the battery out, tried a new SD card, and finally tried another computer, a separate Lightroom, and ultimately iPhoto, with the problem being consistently reproducible. I had now issues downloading nearly 2000 images until this cropped up, and now it's a consistent problem.

 

Has anybody else had this issue? Am I being ignorant to some setting in the camera or lightroom? I figured that since I am reproducing this accross computers and via different software, it's a camera issue. 

 

 

Your thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated in advance.

Hi Ashwin

 

I've been using the M10 and imported photos into Lightroom on two different Macs. No problem at all.

 

- Vikas

[digitalfx]

ok, this is very strange. I have not had this problem once, before or after the FW update to 1.3.4.0. I was about to post this, but started a new import first...and half of my images imported upside down. Why did this just randomly change? Ive been importing all weekend and it didn't happen till after I read Ashwin's post.

 

Ashwin, I think you jinxed me

 

EDIT:

Ok even stranger...they are all now correct. 

It seems like they were wrong during the import, but once the import completed, they all corrected themselves.

What is even stranger is that the images that displayed upside down were all horizontal...and they weren't shot upside down, so why would the orientation be off to begin with?

 

Bottom line, I don't have this issue...it seems to be an anomaly during the import.

Ashwin...are you interrupting the import when you see this issue, or are you letting it complete?

[jaapv]

It sounds more like a glitch in LR than with the the camera to me.

[Cliff S]

That wouldn't explain why it happened in iPhoto as well

[ashwinrao1]

Yeah, I tried 2 copies of Lightroom (on different computers) thinking that I had messed up a setting. iphoto reproduces the issue in the same manner. I have spoken with at least 2 others who had either similar temporary or comparable "permanent" issues, as I have had, where the issue came about in the middle of a image download then either resolved itself or "stuck". My issues have "stuck" over 2 days and appeared midway through a 400 image download on Friday. Another friend who has the exact same issue as me noted it upon updating the firmware, and had not noted an issue before.

 

I think it's an unstable firmware bug in 1.3.4, but then again, I am hoping it's just firmware....

[mdg1371]

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I just had a couple misrotated, importing from the camera directly to my iPad, via the app.

[ashwinrao1]

 

[bilbrown]

I don't have the issue in LR, but I do when using the App to import to my iPhone or iPad Pro.

 

Anyone else?

[tjxism]

I don't remember anything upside down, but definitely messed portrait orientation. Both in LR(mac) and iPhone. I think it has to be something wrong with the EXIF. 

[ashwinrao1]

Here I have demosntrated this same issue with iphoto...

 

[sandymc]

Post an original DNG somewhere.....

[ashwinrao1]

HI Sandy,

Here's a link to a flipped image in dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uu0wr4sae6r6dlf/AAC6FCzfDf9w9eBxszOkNcHia?dl=0'

[sandymc]

HI Sandy,

Here's a link to a flipped image in dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uu0wr4sae6r6dlf/AAC6FCzfDf9w9eBxszOkNcHia?dl=0'

 

 

Yup. DNG orientation shows as 3. I'd say sticky orientation sensor on the camera is the most likely issue, or maybe a bug in the firmware. But LR is doing exactly what the metadata is telling it to do.

[scott kirkpatrick]

It comes up inverted in Capture One as well.

 

scott

[cirke]

is there a lightroom 6.8 profile ? I dont want to switch to cc 
 

thank you

Edited February 23, 2017 by siangue

[Jeff S]

is there a lightroom 6.8 profile ? I dont want to switch to cc

 

thank you

Yes, color improved with 6.8.

 

Jeff

[jonoslack]

HI Sandy,

Here's a link to a flipped image in dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uu0wr4sae6r6dlf/AAC6FCzfDf9w9eBxszOkNcHia?dl=0'

 

HI Ashwin

just a point - had this DNG already been imported into Lightroom - or was it directly from the SD card? Relevant perhaps (or perhaps not)

[Jeff S]

Similar to Jono's question...was it via a card reader or direct to computer?

 

Jeff

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[scott kirkpatrick]

It looks to me as if the file came straight from the card, without having anything added by LightRoom.  There is only one time stamp. And only shot information (date, time, file number, camera serial number) has been added to the templates.  

 

scott