Small comment: lightroom and too intelligent cameras

Dear all,

just a small sidestep on current work. We currently are busy with defining the cropping parameters for all images in lightroom in order to finally implement the optimal alignment parameters mentioned in the previous post.

Thereby I stumbled upon an interesting issue: when you define in the lightroom files that you want to crop e.g. the top of the image, what actually is cropped can differ from image to image. Searching a bit deeper, I found a "Camera Orientation " setting in the settings files and a page about intelligent camera orientation sensors on the web.

So, cameras nowadays know, how they are oriented, when a photo was taken. And obviously, lightroom knows and reads this intelligent orientation parameter to present all pictures upright. Nevertheless, it still defines 'top' for cropping relative to the camera housings top. Now, is that clever, or what?