Black thumbnails and pictures

Hi all,
I've been having this problem lately with my iPhoto, when I try to import photos into my iPhoto from only one particular camera (my other camera when importing photos does not have this problem). All the vertical photos come up as black, also the thumbnails. I have also been referring to this previous thread for help as it's the same problem - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3413585 - but none of the suggestions have been of any help. My camera is not on auto rotate, and i know that iPhoto does not do this itself, but I know that the camera's auto rotate function has already been disabled. I know that the files are not corrupted because the 'original file' is there and looks fine when I look for it manually in the finder, but I don't know how to change iPhoto so that it doesn't automatically modify the vertical photos and replace them with the modified photo. I am also trying to rebuild the library now, but it's taking hours.
Any thoughts? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers

My suspicion is that your problem correlates to a photo orientation indicator set by your camera in the photo file.
some ideas
--Choose one photo which displays black in Media Center
-- In the PSE Organizer thumbnail area, select that photo and display the Organizer Properties panel/window for that photo. within the Camera Data of that Properties window you are looking for an Orientation field - what does it say ?
-- Now in the Organizer, rotate the thumbnail of that same photo 90 degrees to the right or to the left and then rotate it back in the other direction
-- Do whatever you may need to do to refresh your display through Media Center and check if this photo displays OK.
After you post back with your results, we can discuss in more detail the what and the why. If my theory is correct the solution should be easy.
FYI - I suspect that your identifying that the problem was specific to portrait photos which had not been edited will be very significant in identifying what is happening. Good analysis.

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