How to rotate raw files and save them

[Astrofriend]

Sometimes you have problems that you can't find solutions to and you push it to the future how to solve it. In my data there are photos I took already in 2013 that I accidentally had the camera's auto rotation turned on. As a result, as the mount moved during the night, the orientation of some of the photos changed.

Since then I have tried to change the rotation so that all of the raw photos will be back to a horizontal orientation again which many of the astro software require. Changing the orientation is easy in most software, but to save them in Canon's .cr2 format again I never found a solution to until now.

Here's how I solved it:
http://www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/tutorials/tutorial-rotate-raw-files/01-tutorial-rotate-raw-files.html

I have only done this on Canon's .cr2 files. Let me know if you can use this for other cameras, Nikon, Sony etc. You have at least to change the file extension inside the batch file.

/Lars

[Davey-T]

Maybe I'm missing the point but I thought you could rotate them in the Canon Digital Professional that comes on the disc with the camera.

Dave

[Astrofriend]

Hi Dave,

Yes I can rotate the Canon raw files with Canon software, but can I store the new rotation in the .cr2 file with that software ? It's only a windows software I think and it can only handle Canon raw files. It was many years since I had that Canon software installed, but there was some problem with it that I don't remember now.

/Lars

Edited March 2, 2020 by Astrofriend