Windows 10 Photo Viewer Recommendation

[bakerstreet]

Morning Everyone

I have a D3100 and i have been happily snapping away for a couple of years and I'm beginning to get a little frustrated with the Windows 10 Photo Viewer. I only shoot in JPEG which generates files of around 6Mb.

My photos are stored on a WD My Cloud device which hangs off our Wifi Network. I also believe that this is a limiting factor, but that is another discussion.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a suitable photoviewer? Something that also shows more information on the photo would also be quite useful. W10 viewer only has focal length, shutter speed and aperture (I think) Freeware would be nice, but I'm open to alternatives.

I have done a Google, but it produces a lot of options, so recommendations would be useful.

Just one of pics from Goodwood. Not perfect, but I like it.

[Slushbox]

You can try IrfanView. It will show EXIF info, let you crop and re-sample images from remote storage and so on. Also has a lot of batch commands for working with large numbers of files.

IrfanView Plugins work with many RAW formats. It's free.


https://www.irfanview.com/

[SCEtoAUX]

ANother vote for IrfanView, and there's also Faststone Image Viewer:

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

I changed to Faststone from Irfanview for a good reason, but I can't remember what it was :-(

[bakerstreet]

thanks for replies. Will give the first one a go and see how I get on

[mike80]

https://www.xnview.com/en/

xnview is also pretty good.

[Simpo Two]

It's remarkable how my 11 year old XP machine opens JPGs in a second (Windows Picture and Fax Viewer), yet my new Win 10 laptop takes about 5 seconds. You'd think Microsoft would send their machines out with something that could open a humble JPG efficiently.

[Riley Blue]

Though it's no longer flavour of the month at Google, I still use Picasa.

[bakerstreet]

Simpo Two said:

It's remarkable how my 11 year old XP machine opens JPGs in a second (Windows Picture and Fax Viewer), yet my new Win 10 laptop takes about 5 seconds. You'd think Microsoft would send their machines out with something that could open a humble JPG efficiently.

I agree. I loaded up some photos from my camera on my old XP machine and it was much quicker. Annoys me that we seem to have gone backwards

[singlecoil]

You can use Windows Photo Viewer with a W10 machine by getting the image up in the normal W10 viewer, then right clicking and 'open with' and then choosing Photo Viewer. Set PV as the default and you'll be good to go.

[sgrimshaw]

Riley Blue said:

Though it's no longer flavour of the month at Google, I still use Picasa.

+1

[rst99]

Window photo viewer is still built into Win10. Try opening a Tiff image and it will open in WPV (or give you the option to open with..)

Buggered if I can find the .exe or make it open .jpg

[Simpo Two]

TIFF? And I thought XP was out of date!

[singlecoil]

rst99 said:

Buggered if I can find the .exe or make it open .jpg

Did you try the trick I outlined above?

[Tymb]

For jpg and a bit of basic editing I still prefer the old MS Office Picture Manager.
You can still download it as a standalone app from Microsoft.

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Where-is-...

If you are in the file manager you can normally right click a file and choose Open With

[Handbag]

singlecoil said:

You can use Windows Photo Viewer with a W10 machine by getting the image up in the normal W10 viewer, then right clicking and 'open with' and then choosing Photo Viewer. Set PV as the default and you'll be good to go.

+1

[checkmate91]

I may be overcomplicating the requirement here (and I'm an xD shooter rather than a Dx shooter) or missing the point completely but I find the camera manufacturer's software to be quite good. I know OP shoots jpg but the OEM viewers do more than open the doc, plus they give focus points and exif info etc etc.

Worse than that, W10 can't display thumbnails of my current pics!

[rst99]

singlecoil said:

Did you try the trick I outlined above?

I tried it and it didn't work. This seems to only work on computers that were upgraded to W10 rather than computers that came with W10.

There is a registry hack here: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/16/how-to-restore-t...

Which I have managed to get to work.

Job jobbed.