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Tip #7: Which way is up?
If you take a picture holding the camera right side up, you get
what’s called a “landscape” picture — one wider than it is tall.
Sometimes, though, the subject calls for a “portrait” picture — one
taken with the camera rotated 90 degrees to the left or right so that
the resulting image is taller than it is wide.
Some cameras actually have a built-in sensor which records
whether the camera was rotated for a given picture. If you’re lucky
enough to have one of those cameras, your HD1000 will rotate the
image right side up for you automatically.
For the rest of us, there’s the Rotate button on the remote. Statisti-
cally, most people rotate their cameras counterclockwise when they
take a portrait picture, putting the top of the subject at the right
edge of the recorded image. By default, pressing the rotate button
on the HD1000 remote also rotates the picture counterclockwise,
which for most images will put the top where it should be.
Some people, however, rotate their cameras the other way. In the
Options screen (see Tip #1), you can change the default rotation
direction to match your preference. When you press the Rotate
button on the remote, you’ll notice that a rotation indicator pops
up in the lower right corner of the screen. The direction of the
arrow shows the direction of rotation.
By the way, sometimes a picture might not be rotated in your
“usual” direction. Perhaps you’re looking at pictures taken by a
friend, and they prefer to turn the camera the other way. Not to
worry. As with Next and Previous, you can press the Rotate button
more than once in quick succession. Three presses will rotate an
opposite-direction picture to the right orientation — no need to
wait for each rotation to complete.
Finally, what if you want to get your pictures ready for a slideshow
rather than having them initially pop up sideways? Easy. The Rotate
button works in the thumbnail view as well. Just rotate the pictures
so that their thumbnails look right, and your slideshow will look
great.
Two quick notes on the subject of rotation: First, some PC image
editing software will rotate an image but leave the thumbnail in
its original orientation. If you’ve used this type of software, your
thumbnails won’t be an accurate representation of what you’ll see
on screen. Second, in version 1.5 of the HD1000 software, your
HD1000 does not remember image rotations once you’ve changed