Digital Pictures in MCE for Windows Vista
On the Windows Vista site Tony Northrup has an article on Digital Pictures in Media Center
for Windows Vista looking at some of the basic photo tasks that you can accomplish with Media Center:
Media Center reclaims something we could have lost when we switched from film to digital: gathering the family around the photo album. With Media Center, you can handle every step of the digital photography process without touching a keyboard or mouse.
Please promise me that Vista/MCE will recognize the EXIF rotation variable so that the pictures from modern cameras will appear correctly.
If you import your photos using MCE it will respect the EXIF rotation variable and actually rotate the photo. However, if you import the photos using a different method that doesn’t do the actual rotation then MCE will not respect the EXIF setting when doing a slideshow.
in other words, no, the MCE photo viewers do not support the EXIF rotation (orientation, really) variable. only the import wizard does.
rock on, microsoft!
Is there any way to fix this problem. Vista’s photography features (slideshow etc.) are useless to me if I have to manually rotate all my pictures before I can use them