Help with .ORF orientation

[Joe Austin]

I've been trying to find a solution for this but the forums haven't turned up much that was helpful.

The problem is that Olympus/OM .ORF vertical images appear rotated 270 CW in the thumbnails and viewer in Imatch (i.e. not correcting for the 270CW exif orientaton). PS is not affected.

I have FastPictureviewer installed.   A virtual rotation fixes the thumbnail, but does not fix the problem in the viewer.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Mario]

3 reasons:

1. You are using the FastPictureViewer codecs which are out of support for many years.
2. The WIC ORF WIC codec does not understand the orientation in your images.
3. LibRaw does not understand the orientation in your files.

1. If you still use the discontinued Fast Picture Viewer codecs, uninstall them and reboot.
2. Select the problem files in IMatch in a Filer Window and pres Shift+Ctrl+F5 and use the "Force Reload" option.

3- If this does not solve the problem and you use WIC, switch to LibRaw (Edit > Preferences > Application: Prefer photools.com RAW processing. Repeat strep 2.

A virtual rotation fixes the thumbnail, but does not fix the problem in the viewer.

This most likely means that your camera has used different orientations for the cache image and the preview, RAW data and thumbnail?
The virtual orientation should affect the thumbnail and the preview. Unless the embedded preview in your images is too small (Edit > Preferences > Cache) and IMatch falls back to develop the RAW file. And then WIC or LibRaw (whatever is active) gets the orientation wrong.

The normal deal is that thumbnail and embedded preview are stored in "neutral" orientation and that the EXIF orientation specifies the orientation of the RAW data. Unless there is also an EXIF record for the preview that can be accessed.

Olympus gets that wrong often, as far as I remember. And WIC/LibRaw then provide the wrong orientation info to IMatch, which has no way to tell. This was so annoying that I've added separate options to "rotate embedded preview" (below photools.com RAW processing).

[Joe Austin]

Looks like steps 1 and 2 did the trick, thanks!