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@Catsrcool

Welcome to the Affinity forums.

I've seen mention of this problem before and I believe the answer concerns whether or not the image data includes information on the orientation of the original image.

I've just checked a Landscape .CR2 RAW in both the latest release and the latest Beta of APh and both opened in the correct orientation, so this is not a general problem.  Is this something that has just started for you, as your question suggests?  Can you post here one of your RAW files which exhibits this problem, for other users to test?

Jeff

Win 10 Pro, i7 6700K, 32Gb RAM, NVidia GTX1660 Ti and Intel HD530 Graphics

Long-time user of Serif products, chiefly PagePlus and PhotoPlus, but also WebPlus, CraftArtistProfessional and DrawPlus.  Delighted to be using Affinity Designer, Photo, and now Publisher, version 1 and now version 2.

iPad Pro (12.9") (iOS 17.4) running Affinity Photo and Designer version 1 and all three version 2 apps.

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The RAW image in the Google drive link here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_7zBO2p3f4JfUd126mdh7OZcMtjHilhx/view?usp=sharing
is displayed in Windows file manager and Canon's own DPP software in Landscape but opening it in Affinity is displayed in portrait.
The max file size on this forum says it is 512Mb so the only way for you to get it AFAIK is the Google drive link?

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Exiftool shows:
Camera Orientation              : Rotate 270 CW
so it looks like Photo is applying this

It opens landscape in Photolab4. No suggestions, sorry

Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe
Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10

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Exiftool is a command line program available from https://www.exiftool.org/
-CameraOrientation#=0 is the option that needs to be used to rewrite the Camera Orientation metadata

Your original file shows
CameraOrientation: Rotate 270 CW
after exiftool -CameraOrientation#=0 IMG_0201.CR2
it becomes
CameraOrientation: Horizontal (normal)
so the file will open in Photo as landscape

For Windows

Download the Windows Executable: exiftool-12.13.zip (6.3 MB) and unzip it to a folder, there is no installation as such

Set the path to point to this folder using Control Panel\System and Security\System\Advanced System Settings\Advanced tab\Environmental Variables\System variables

Now you can open a Powershell window in a folder containing your raw files and use Exiftool there

exiftool -CameraOrientation#=0 *.CR2 will operate on all files

ExiftoolPath.png

Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe
Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10

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