diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bb6702eec4..e076af98eb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@
     Bug #6753: Info records without a DATA subrecords are loaded incorrectly
     Bug #6794: Light sources are attached to mesh bounds centers instead of mesh origins when AttachLight NiNode is missing
     Bug #6799: Game crashes if an NPC has no Class attached
+    Bug #6818: ess-importer doesn't exactly reproduce camera
     Bug #6849: ImageButton texture is not scaled properly
     Bug #6869: Hits queue stagger during swing animation
     Bug #6895: Removing a negative number of items from a script, makes the script terminate with an error
diff --git a/apps/essimporter/convertplayer.cpp b/apps/essimporter/convertplayer.cpp
index b3ccbca358..e80712d6c9 100644
--- a/apps/essimporter/convertplayer.cpp
+++ b/apps/essimporter/convertplayer.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #include "convertplayer.hpp"
 
+#include <cmath>
+
 #include <components/misc/constants.hpp>
 #include <components/misc/stringops.hpp>
 
@@ -8,6 +10,8 @@ namespace ESSImport
 
     void convertPCDT(const PCDT& pcdt, ESM::Player& out, std::vector<std::string>& outDialogueTopics, bool& firstPersonCam, bool& teleportingEnabled, bool& levitationEnabled, ESM::ControlsState& controls)
     {
+        out.mObject.mPosition.rot[0] = -atan2(pcdt.mPNAM.mVerticalRotation.mData[2][1], pcdt.mPNAM.mVerticalRotation.mData[2][2]);
+
         out.mBirthsign = pcdt.mBirthsign;
         out.mObject.mNpcStats.mBounty = pcdt.mBounty;
         for (const auto & essFaction : pcdt.mFactions)
diff --git a/apps/essimporter/importplayer.hpp b/apps/essimporter/importplayer.hpp
index 6c8f211c57..e872cbe81e 100644
--- a/apps/essimporter/importplayer.hpp
+++ b/apps/essimporter/importplayer.hpp
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ struct PCDT
             int mCellX, mCellY; // grid coordinates; for interior cells this is always (0, 0)
         };
 
+        struct Rotation
+        {
+            float mData[3][3];
+        };
+
         int mPlayerFlags; // controls, camera and draw state
         unsigned int mLevelProgress;
         float mSkillProgress[27]; // skill progress, non-uniform scaled
@@ -88,7 +93,8 @@ struct PCDT
         int mDetectEnchantmentMagnitude; // seems redundant
         int mDetectAnimalMagnitude; // seems redundant
         MarkLocation mMarkLocation;
-        unsigned char mUnknown3[40];
+        unsigned char mUnknown3[4];
+        Rotation mVerticalRotation;
         unsigned char mSpecIncreases[3]; // number of skill increases for each specialization
         unsigned char mUnknown4;
     };