K5 Image Rotation Question

Hi All,

Have a K5 for a few months now, and when taking a portrait the initial view shows on the rear screen in portrait mode, then when going back to the image it won't rotate 90 deg to portrait view.

The camera's been back to Pentax ( only got it back today ) for another problem + this one. Am I expecting it to do something it wont ?

I've all the check boxes ticked that say " save rotation info " and the menu screen rotates to portrait view.

I should also say that the K7 ( still got ) rotates the image so why wont the K5.

Does anyone have an answer or suggestion please.

Cheers

Yes, K-7 does it but K-5 does not.

No idea why though.

With mine (firmware 1.11), the initial view (ie the 'instant review' - the one that comes up immediately after taking the shot) comes up non-rotated.

But that's fine - if I take the shot with the camera vertical, I want the instant review non-rotated, since the chances are the camera is still vertical.

Then when I press the playback button, the shot is displayed rotated to portrait.

This rotation is governed by two things:

- the Save Rotation Info setting (which specifies whether or not orientation is saved when you take the picture).


- the Auto Image Rotation setting (which governs whether the image is rotated if it was saved with its orientation info).

If a) orientation info was saved for an image, b) it was shot with the camera vertical and c) Auto Image Rotation is On, then a portrait image will be rotated on playback.

So if you've been playing with the Save Rotation Info setting, you can end up with some of the images on your card saved with their orientation, and some not. Only the ones that have their orientation saved will rotate at all.

This can then be very confusing when you come to work out what's going on. Guess how I know!

I can't get the menu screen to rotate at all. Do you mean the status screen? If so, that's governed by the Auto Screen Rotation setting, under Status Screen (Setup menu 1).

Hiya Chris,

Thanks for the info, I'd expect the image to auto ratate when reviewing in portrait mode, i.e turning the camera 90 deg to view the full image on the screen as the K7 does,

It's not happening for some reason, been back to Pentax last week as well.

Cheers

There is a thread HERE about it on the other forum.

Ah, I see what you mean now. No, mine doesn't do that.

And it did with the K-7? That's a shame then, it would be a nice feature to have as an option - not sure I should be forced to have it do this.

I never had a K-7, so it's not something I miss.

Thanks Mike.

Cheers