Embarassing question: how to import orientation correct pictures?

Nethawk

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Ummm....well...I've had my D90 for over six months now and now that I'm starting to take over three hundred pix a session, I need to know how to save time for myself by making sure that when I import the shots on my PC, that they're already in the orientation (vertical - 99% of the time) I want - rather than having to tediously rotate each shot one-by-one with Windows Explorer.

Is there a setting in-camera I can use to do this? Is there an alternative?

Thanks for the help.
 
The Nikon D90 has an auto image rotation feature, which you may find handy when viewing portrait photographs on your computer.

On your Nikon D90, press the MENU button to bring the MONITOR to life. Make sure that one of the TABS on the left is highlighted, using the MULTI SELECTOR to highlight the SETUP MENU (the spanner). Click right on the M/S to enter the menu proper and scroll down to Auto Image Rotation. Press the OK button and select ON.

Setting to ON ‘adds’ something (invisibly) to the picture to change the orientation of it if you turned the camera 90 degrees when shooting (from Landscape to Portrait). It will not turn the picture on the MONITOR, so you will still have to turn the camera to look at the photo (I believe the manual is a bit misleading here). It just saves time when downloading to a computer as you don’t have to manually rotate each picture. However, this relies on the program you use to view your photos – not all programs recognise this feature – most annoyingly it doesn’t work with Windows Explorer
 
What are you using to import the images to the PC?

I think CaptureNX/ViewNX automatically correct and I would of thought that you should of got those with the camera.
 
not all programs recognise this feature – most annoyingly it doesn’t work with Windows Explorer
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Aha! Thanks. It's what I suspected all along - especially since I always had image rotation on to begin with. Much appreciated. So what's best for fast and effective viewing thee days?
 
Further to what has already been said, my main photo management program is ACDSee. It can rotate a whole batch as required automatically, selecting those required and ignoring the landscape orientations. You don't have to select those you wish to rotate. ACDSee uses the exif info to work it out. It doesn't work on my Fuji compact camera's photos for some reason.

It does work in two ways though. First, it can rotate just for viewing, and leave the original untouched (it's in the options for this function). Or it can physically rotate without any jpg loss.
 
you can just drag around the images in the folder you want to rotate and right click and click rotate and select the direction. can do all at once. no need for anything more than windows
 
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