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Download Free Windows 7 Raw File Support Camera Codec Pack for 120 DSLR Cameras
A free resource available for download from Microsoft is designed to introduce support for raw file formats from no less than 120 DSLR cameras in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Professional photographers are bound to be all but too familiar with what the raw image file format of their DSLR camera can do for them, but I'm willing to bet that there are plenty of hobbits photographers such as myself that understand the advantages of working with the pure information of a picture in the early stages of the editing process, instead of with already processed content.
JPEGs, TIFFs, PNGs, and a range of additional formats, including Microsoft's own JPEG-XR (or HD Photo) format, provide an automatically processed version of an image. Sometimes, the level of alteration introduced by the automated editing process drastically restricts the "elbow room" left for the photographer's own changes, or even destroys the picture.
This is why it's better to work with the digital negatives of images, the pure information from which JPEGs and TIFFs, etc. are created, when digital single lens reflex cameras permit it.
The problem with ray image file formats? Well, the fact that they're non-standardized proprietary formats, vendor and camera-specific. Adding native support for each of the raw image file formats in Windows has yet to be done, but now, Windows 7 and Vista users can leverage the next best thing, a codec pack.
The Microsoft Camera Codec Pack was just released, and it will allow Windows 7 and Vista customers that also know their way around a DSLR camera to work with raw images right in Windows Explorer. Furthermore, raw image file format for some 120 DSLR cameras does not stop with Windows 7 and Vista, since Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 also enables customers to work with such content.
A free resource available for download from Microsoft is designed to introduce support for raw file formats from no less than 120 DSLR cameras in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Professional photographers are bound to be all but too familiar with what the raw image file format of their DSLR camera can do for them, but I'm willing to bet that there are plenty of hobbits photographers such as myself that understand the advantages of working with the pure information of a picture in the early stages of the editing process, instead of with already processed content.
JPEGs, TIFFs, PNGs, and a range of additional formats, including Microsoft's own JPEG-XR (or HD Photo) format, provide an automatically processed version of an image. Sometimes, the level of alteration introduced by the automated editing process drastically restricts the "elbow room" left for the photographer's own changes, or even destroys the picture.
This is why it's better to work with the digital negatives of images, the pure information from which JPEGs and TIFFs, etc. are created, when digital single lens reflex cameras permit it.
The problem with ray image file formats? Well, the fact that they're non-standardized proprietary formats, vendor and camera-specific. Adding native support for each of the raw image file formats in Windows has yet to be done, but now, Windows 7 and Vista users can leverage the next best thing, a codec pack.
The Microsoft Camera Codec Pack was just released, and it will allow Windows 7 and Vista customers that also know their way around a DSLR camera to work with raw images right in Windows Explorer. Furthermore, raw image file format for some 120 DSLR cameras does not stop with Windows 7 and Vista, since Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 also enables customers to work with such content.
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