RAW Thumbnailer for XP released by MS

[Bee_Jay]

Some of you may have seen the announcement on DPReview, but Microsoft have launched a new free RAW thumbnailer and viewer that supports Canon and Nikon RAW files.

It allows you to view them as thumbnails in XP Explorer, and also open them up in a preview window.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d48e808e-b10d-4ce4-a141-5866fd4a3286&DisplayLang=en

Joe.

[beano500]

Thanks for the heads up!

[_dobbo_]

Excellent, no need to shoot RAW+BASIC now, if I can preview the raw files then the jpegs are surplus...

[chris.mapey]

Oh - I can view RAW files via XP anyway - is that usual?

I look at the file in Explorer (ie click on the directory) and there is is as a preview.

Chris

[Bee_Jay]

chris.mapey said:

Oh - I can view RAW files via XP anyway - is that usual? I look at the file in Explorer (ie click on the directory) and there is is as a preview. Chris

There used to be a hack which tricked XP into using IE to view the encapsulated JPEG preview (the one your camera uses).

This is much nicer though.

[simpo two]

I can view RAW files as thumbnails (View As) but they don't enlarge.