Setting the Auto Rotate Function

Mode Dial

Your camera is equipped with an Intelligent Orientation sensor that detects the orientation of an image shot with the camera held vertically and automatically rotates it to the correct viewing orientation in the display. You can set this function on/off.

1 Select Shooting mode or Playback mode, then select [Auto Rotate] in the [ (Set up)] menu.

zSee Selecting Menus and Settings (Basic Guide: p. 16).

zIf you set it to [On] in Shooting mode, the direction of the image that you shoot is recorded.

zIf you set it to [On] in Playback mode (but only if you set [Auto Rotate] to [On] in Shooting mode) the images appear right side up on the LCD monitor, regardless of the direction of the camera.

2 Use the or button to select [On] and press the

MENU button.

zSettings can be made by turning the multi control dial.

zThe display will return to the shooting or playback screen.

zWhen this function is [On] and the camera is in shooting mode and set to

Information View, an icon showing camera orientation ( : normal, :

right side down, and : left side down) appears at the upper right corner of the LCD monitor.

z This function may not operate correctly when the camera is pointed straight up or down. Check that the correct camera orientation icon (e.g.

) is displayed and if it is not, then set the Auto Rotate function to [Off]. z Even if the Auto Rotate function is set to [On], the orientation of images downloaded to a computer will depend upon the software used to

download the images.

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