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The Microsoft Camera Codec Pack enables the viewing of a variety of device-specific file formats in Window Live Photo Gallery as well as other software that is based in Windows Imaging Codecs (WIC).
Installing this package will allow supported RAW camera files to be viewable in Windows Explorer.
This package is available in both the x86 and x64 versions .
The Microsoft Camera Codec Pack provides support for the following device formats:
  • Canon: EOS 1000D (EOS Kiss F in Japan and the EOS Rebel XS in North America), EOS 10D, EOS 1D Mk2, EOS 1D Mk3, EOS 1D Mk4, EOS 1D Mk2 N, EOS 1Ds Mk2, EOS 1Ds Mk3, EOS 20D, EOS 300D (the Kiss Digital in Japan and the Digital Rebel in North America) , EOS 30D, EOS 350D (the Canon EOS Kiss Digital N in Japan and EOS Digital Rebel XT in North America), EOS 400D (the Kiss Digital X in Japan and the Digital Rebel XTi in North America), EOS 40D, EOS 450D (EOS Kiss X2 in Japan and the EOS Rebel XSi in North America), EOS 500D (EOS Kiss X3 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T1i in North America), EOS 550D (EOS Kiss X4 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T2i in North America), EOS 50D, EOS 5D, EOS 5D Mk2, EOS 7D, EOS D30, EOS D60, G2, G3, G5, G6, G9, G10, G11, Pro1, S90
  • Nikon: D100, D1H, D200, D2H, D2Hs, D2X, D2Xs, D3, D3s, D300, D3000, D300s, D3X, D40, D40x, D50, D5000, D60, D70, D700, D70s, D80, D90, P6000
  • Sony: A100, A200, A230, A300, A330, A350, A380, A700, A850, A900, DSC-R1
  • Olympus: C7070, C8080, E1, E10, E20, E3, E30, E300, E330, E400, E410, E420, E450, E500, E510, E520, E620, EP1
  • Pentax (PEF formats only): K100D, K100D Super, K10D, K110D, K200D, K20D, K7, K-x, *ist D, *ist DL, *ist DS
  • Leica: Digilux 3, D-LUX4, M8, M9
  • Minolta: DiMage A1, DiMage A2, Maxxum 7D (Dynax 7D in Europe, α-7 Digital in Japan)
  • Epson: RD1
  • Panasonic: G1, GH1, GF1, LX3
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26829
 
nboy22

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Awesome, I was just thinking about how inconvenient it is that you can't view RAW thumbnails in windows explorer.
 
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Griffinhart

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I've been viewing thumbnails of NEF files for years in Windows Explorer. One of the Benefits of Windows Live Photo Gallery was that once it generated thumbnails for itself, they also applied to Windows Explorer.
 
yhelothar

yhelothar

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dougp said:
Version: 0652.0621 Date Published: 7/26/2011

ORLY? Even the Windows Team Blog says it's new.

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_...26/photo-gallery-now-supports-raw-format.aspx
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Hmm it might be a new all in one pack. But I remember installing the specific codec to view my pentax raw files with the windows 7 built in picture viewer a while back.
Here's a link from 2009 that shows you how to do it.
http://www.lytebyte.com/2009/08/01/...aphy-raw-format-files-in-windows-7-and-vista/

Maybe the new one is a lot faster. But I remember I ended up using bridge to browse raw files since it was so much quicker. And bridge is known to be slow and buggy.
 
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GoSharks

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astroidea said:
Hmm it might be a new all in one pack. But I remember installing the specific codec to view my pentax raw files with the windows 7 built in picture viewer a while back.
Here's a link from 2009 that shows you how to do it.
http://www.lytebyte.com/2009/08/01/...aphy-raw-format-files-in-windows-7-and-vista/

Maybe the new one is a lot faster. But I remember I ended up using bridge to browse raw files since it was so much quicker. And bridge is known to be slow and buggy.
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Pentax has had an x86-only codec available for at least a couple years now.
First party and x64 compatible is a new development.
 
yhelothar

yhelothar

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GoSharks said:
Pentax has had an x86-only codec available for at least a couple years now.
First party and x64 compatible is a new development.
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It was x64 at least. I've been using x64 windows for at least as long as I've had my DSLR.
 
yhelothar

yhelothar

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GoSharks said:
The one you were using wasn't from Pentax then.

http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/rawcodec_win.html
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Blah, I don't really like bickering about this. It's kind of besides the point. The update was a good update anyways :)

But I did found the installation file for the raw codec, and mine was from 2008, and is 8.1MB, so it's an older version than the current one. So either I used 32-bit windows for much longer than I remembered, or pentax rolled back x64 support o_O
My memory is probably just messing with me. It was too long ago :p
 
ronbo613

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No Panasonic RW2 support either(Lumix LX5).

No Canon S95
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Nice when you find out the CR2 files from the S95 are different from the CR2 files from older cameras like the 20D and only supported by Photoshop CS5.

Since I got my Lumix LX5, I've been using the Adobe DNG converter on a regular basis. I bought the Fast Picture Codec Pack to view RAW files in Windows.
 
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