Mastering the Nikon D300

1.7. Rotate Tall

When you shoot an image as a vertical or portrait image where you turn your camera sideways, the image is recorded to the card as a horizontal image lying on its side. You can look at the image later, and the D300 will default to leaving it on its side, so that you must turn the camera to view it comfortably.

If you would rather that the camera automatically rotate the image to normal viewing perspective, even though that causes a smaller upright vertical image, you'll need to set this option to On (Figure 6A).

Here are the two available settings:

1. On – When you take a vertical image, the D300 will rotate it so that you don't have to turn your camera to view it. This sizes the image so that a vertical image fits in the normal ...