Windoze XP can now read RAW files!

Microsoft has released it's RAW viewer software to patch XP SP2 to read both NEF
files and Canon raw files, 4 different types actually...

It's a 6 meg download if you have ,net 1.1 installed (needed for Norton Ghost
among other things) or a 28 meg if you don't...

Once installed it gives thums in the thumbnail view, but won't do filmstrip...

The nice thing is, the popup when you put your mouse over the image gives you
all the EXIF data, including the ISO!

I love it! Finally MS did something useful!

Double-clicking the image will bring it up in a Microsoft viewer, if you have
Nikon View, you have to kill the shortcut to NKVMON.EXE in the STARTUP or it
will 'steal' back the NEF from Windoze. If you don't want to use MS viewer,
don't delete it...

Now to go look at all my NEF's!!



Oh yeah - you can get a link from the Photo Review site...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0506/05...msrawthumb.asp

Except it's typical Bloatware weighing in a 47 MB zipped. Many similar
plugins are 4.7 MB. And it doesn't support anything but Canon and Nikon. So
apparently, Olympus, Fuji, Minolta and Pentax et al don't exist in Mr.
Bill's neighbourhood...



"Bob" wrote in message
...

Microsoft has released it's RAW viewer software to patch XP SP2 to read
both NEF
files and Canon raw files, 4 different types actually...

It's a 6 meg download if you have ,net 1.1 installed (needed for Norton
Ghost
among other things) or a 28 meg if you don't...

Once installed it gives thums in the thumbnail view, but won't do
filmstrip...

The nice thing is, the popup when you put your mouse over the image gives
you
all the EXIF data, including the ISO!

I love it! Finally MS did something useful!

Double-clicking the image will bring it up in a Microsoft viewer, if you
have
Nikon View, you have to kill the shortcut to NKVMON.EXE in the STARTUP or
it
will 'steal' back the NEF from Windoze. If you don't want to use MS
viewer,
don't delete it...

Now to go look at all my NEF's!!



Oh yeah - you can get a link from the Photo Review site...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0506/05...msrawthumb.asp

Darrell wrote:


So apparently, Olympus, Fuji, Minolta and Pentax et al don't exist in Mr.
Bill's neighbourhood...


They probably failed to pay their MS tax?

I wonder why anyone would need/want a viewer outside of a RAW developer
anyway? Like what are you going to do once you find the RAW file you want?
Open a RAW developer...

--

Stacey

"Stacey" wrote in message
...
Darrell wrote:


So apparently, Olympus, Fuji, Minolta and Pentax et al don't exist in
Mr.
Bill's neighbourhood...


They probably failed to pay their MS tax?

I wonder why anyone would need/want a viewer outside of a RAW developer
anyway? Like what are you going to do once you find the RAW file you want?
Open a RAW developer...


Yep, what the hell were they thinking? It's not even worth downloading.

Greg

"Bob" wrote in message
...

Microsoft has released it's RAW viewer software to patch XP SP2 to read
both NEF
files and Canon raw files, 4 different types actually...

It's a 6 meg download if you have ,net 1.1 installed (needed for Norton
Ghost
among other things) or a 28 meg if you don't...

Once installed it gives thums in the thumbnail view, but won't do
filmstrip...

The nice thing is, the popup when you put your mouse over the image gives
you
all the EXIF data, including the ISO!

I love it! Finally MS did something useful!

Double-clicking the image will bring it up in a Microsoft viewer, if you
have
Nikon View, you have to kill the shortcut to NKVMON.EXE in the STARTUP or
it
will 'steal' back the NEF from Windoze. If you don't want to use MS
viewer,
don't delete it...

Now to go look at all my NEF's!!



Oh yeah - you can get a link from the Photo Review site...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0506/05...msrawthumb.asp

Nikon has had a patch for XP for a long time. I've been viewing NEF's in
thumbnails since I got my D70. The "updater" is only 607KB!

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:50:28 -0400, Stacey wrote:

Darrell wrote:


So apparently, Olympus, Fuji, Minolta and Pentax et al don't exist in Mr.
Bill's neighbourhood...


They probably failed to pay their MS tax?

I wonder why anyone would need/want a viewer outside of a RAW developer
anyway? Like what are you going to do once you find the RAW file you want?

That's why I wanted this patch - to see the RAW files when browsing around in
Windose... I hated to just see a little blank box among the jpeg thums. As for
MS viewer, I probably won't use it! Anyone actually use MS photo ware??


Open a RAW developer...

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:28:14 -0600, "Sheldon"
wrote:


"Bob" wrote in message
.. .

Microsoft has released it's RAW viewer software to patch XP SP2 to read
both NEF
files and Canon raw files, 4 different types actually...

It's a 6 meg download if you have ,net 1.1 installed (needed for Norton
Ghost
among other things) or a 28 meg if you don't...

Once installed it gives thums in the thumbnail view, but won't do
filmstrip...

The nice thing is, the popup when you put your mouse over the image gives
you
all the EXIF data, including the ISO!

I love it! Finally MS did something useful!

Double-clicking the image will bring it up in a Microsoft viewer, if you
have
Nikon View, you have to kill the shortcut to NKVMON.EXE in the STARTUP or
it
will 'steal' back the NEF from Windoze. If you don't want to use MS
viewer,
don't delete it...

Now to go look at all my NEF's!!



Oh yeah - you can get a link from the Photo Review site...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0506/05...msrawthumb.asp

Nikon has had a patch for XP for a long time. I've been viewing NEF's in
thumbnails since I got my D70. The "updater" is only 607KB!



Really? I wish they had told me about it, I'm always going to MS update but it
never seems to find anything...

Bob wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:28:14 -0600, "Sheldon"
wrote:


"Bob" wrote in message
. ..

Microsoft has released it's RAW viewer software to patch XP SP2 to read
both NEF
files and Canon raw files, 4 different types actually...

It's a 6 meg download if you have ,net 1.1 installed (needed for Norton
Ghost
among other things) or a 28 meg if you don't...

Once installed it gives thums in the thumbnail view, but won't do
filmstrip...

The nice thing is, the popup when you put your mouse over the image gives
you
all the EXIF data, including the ISO!

I love it! Finally MS did something useful!

Double-clicking the image will bring it up in a Microsoft viewer, if you
have
Nikon View, you have to kill the shortcut to NKVMON.EXE in the STARTUP or
it
will 'steal' back the NEF from Windoze. If you don't want to use MS
viewer,
don't delete it...

Now to go look at all my NEF's!!



Oh yeah - you can get a link from the Photo Review site...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0506/05...msrawthumb.asp

Nikon has had a patch for XP for a long time. I've been viewing NEF's in
thumbnails since I got my D70. The "updater" is only 607KB!



Really? I wish they had told me about it, I'm always going to MS update but it
never seems to find anything...

Windows XP update he
http://tinyurl.com/cqwex

You need to have installed Picture Project or Nikon Capture etc for it
to work.

Also, use "Tweak UI" from Powertools for windows XP to adjust
size/quality of all thumbnails displayed.

Bob wrote:

I wonder why anyone would need/want a viewer outside of a RAW developer
anyway? Like what are you going to do once you find the RAW file you want?

That's why I wanted this patch - to see the RAW files when browsing around
in
Windose...

But isn't that just going to slow down the system having to deal with that
action? Sounds like more bloat that will require another hardware upgrade
just to use windows explorer! :-)



--

Stacey

"Bob" wrote in message

That's why I wanted this patch - to see the RAW files when browsing around
in
Windose... I hated to just see a little blank box among the jpeg thums...



Try DP Magic http://www.dpmagic.com/ it will enable the viewing of most
(all?) RAW file thumbnails

(remember to set your folder view to 'thumbnails)