Rotate in Metadata

Question

We just got a Sony A900 digital camera that places 'Standard' or 'Rotate [+90 degrees]' in the metadata of the images.  Photoshop rotates the images that have Rotate in the metadata. I did not know that Photoshop did this, but since it does why can you not turn this off in Photoshop?  Sony does not document this feature in the camera's manual so I am having the hardest time communicating with Sony on how to turn it off in the camera.  We also receive images from outside sources so being able stop Photoshop from rotating images would be real helpful.

Answer 1

I was wrong there is a way of getting the orientation value and undoing the auto rotate.
You could set up File - Scripts - Scripts Events Manager to call the following script on "open document" event.
It gets the orientation value from the Bridge Thumbnail where the metadata hasn't been changed and rotates the document the opposite amount.
#target photoshop
var myScript = "function main(){"+
"try{ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');}catch(e){}"+
"var thumb = new Thumbnail('"+activeDocument.fullName.fsName +"');"+
"var md = thumb.synchronousMetadata; var source = new XMPMeta( md.serialize());"+
"var orientation = source.getProperty( XMPConst.NS_TIFF, 'Orientation');"+
"var orientationVal = parseInt( orientation );"+
"return orientationVal;}main();"
if (!BridgeTalk.isRunning("bridge")) BridgeTalk.launch("bridge");
while(!BridgeTalk.isRunning("bridge")){$.sleep( 100 );}
$.sleep( 100 );
var num;
var bt = new BridgeTalk;
    bt.target = "bridge";
    bt.body = myScript;
bt.onResult = function( inBT ) {num = (parseInt(inBT.body) );rotateFile(num);}
    bt.send();
bt.pump();
  $.sleep( 100 );
  var timeOutAt = ( new Date() ).getTime() + 5000;
  var currentTime = ( new Date() ).getTime();
  while ( ( currentTime < timeOutAt ) && ( undefined == num ) ) {
   bt.pump();
   $.sleep( 100 );
   currentTime = ( new Date() ).getTime();
function rotateFile(value){
var doc=activeDocument;
switch(value){
case 3 : doc.rotateCanvas(-180); break;
case 6 : doc.rotateCanvas(-90); break;
case 8 : doc.rotateCanvas(90); break;
default : break;