Am I missing something? - Image orientation? - May go back to lightroom :(

Hello - I recently switched from Lightroom over to Aperture - There are things I love about it - and things I don't like ( No Fill Light feature - in aperture I have to adjust several settings to get the same effect ) and the thing that seems to be my biggest gripe is the apparent lack of auto orientation.
The cameras I shoot with ( Nikon D3 and D3s ) used to import into lightroom in the proper orientation - either portrait or landscape. Does Aperture not do this with NEF's ( the raw files produced by Nikon cameras ) - I wouldn't mind manually doing it but I shoot several thousand pictures per session and it's too labor intensive for my staff and I to have to go through and sort something that used to be solved automatically for us.
Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone have a fix?
Respectfully,
Ezra Primack,
photographer | partner
Kiss the bride! wedding media
Ktb! is proud to be a "Best of the Knot weddings pick" for 2010!
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Haha - if your not carful - very true - I am available light only photographer - in many demanding situations at ISO 6400 - 12800 the D3s is pretty good at getting pretty clean images... but subtle use of fill light and some additional post processing in PS has allowed us to shoot regularly in pretty demanding low light situations without using flash. Even when used properly flash kills it for me - I hate losing ambiance and clamping out all those the great blooms of light and bokeh etc that you lose when you start going strobist. If you get bored and want to see how clean the results we get at ISO 6400-12800 using this method are you can check out our work at ktbweddings[.]com
We use the exposure / shadows /highlights / recovery / radius method right now - but it's 2 more adjustments than the way we were used to in LR. I'm going to stick with aperture because there are so many features that I think make it a better fit than lightroom - it's just little things like that really eat away at your time when you have to do it 400 times on a single project.
Respectfully,
Ezra Primack,
photographer | partner
Kiss the bride! wedding media
Ktb! is proud to be a "Best of the Knot weddings pick" for 2010!
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