Iphoto librairy : masters and previews

Hi there !
I'm French so please excuse me if i make mistakes....
I have a question in relation with this link
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3161569?start=0&tstart=0
I tried to write a question to Terence Devlin but i did not manage...
So I ask my question to everybody !
I did understand that pictures that are in "masters" AND in "previews" comes from a matter of rotation of the picture.
But, WHY, when I watch the picture from "masters", this picture has the same orientation as the one in "previews" ?
Other question : if I turn off the Auto-Rotate feature on my camera, i will have to rotate my pictures myself in iphoto, so it will create another picture in preview. Am I right ?
How can i do to stop having those pictures twice ?
Thanks a lot to everybody !

but having twice the same picture is useless, don't you think ?
Not necessarily. It's the nature of having cameras that autorotate photos for you. That's why I rotate photos before importing into iPhoto. If you take an overwhelming amount of portrait oriented photos then you would be better off following the workflow I posted earlier in order to save space. Otherwise I don't think it would make much difference. The MacBook Air is designed as a lightweight traveling device and often is used in conjunction with a desktop Mac at home. With that type of setup I would have my primary library on the desktop Mac and a smaller traveling library on the Air. I would use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager to transfer necessary photos via albums or events between the libraries as needed. The Air just isn't designed to handle the large libraries due to its limited storage capability. But that's just my philosophy.
If you edit a "normal" landscape photos you will automatically get a copy because iPhoto keeps the original/master file as its digital negative like all DAM (digital asset management) applications. There are high end DAM apps that you can edit and save the edited version over the original file if so desired. Media Pro 1 is one of them. I use it for may primary DAM work and iPhoto for special projects like books (a separate library for each book), cards, calendars, etc.

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