LR3 Stretches Vertical photos to be Horizontal, help!
I have been using LR3 since the first beta and never had this problem until yesterday. I imported my RAW files into LR and any that I shot that are vertical will rotate horizantal but keep the image as a vertical and stretch it out to make it fit in the box and distort the photo making it incredibly difficult to work with.
What's going on? Is this a bug or did I do something wrong?
The one image I can see this (but only for a subsecond) is a DNG from a Nikon D3, which is not one of my cameras.
I think slowness of LR can not be the reason, unless you're importing 10'000s of photos in one go. As I said, if I import this one photo, I can only see the effect for less than a second (and I have a slow machine).
I this effect reproducible if you import some of these photos, for example into a new, fresh catalog? If not, try deleting/renaming your Previews folder and let LR build the previews again.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland
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