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Nov 17, 2018 12:43:38   #
Mike Holmes Loc: The Villages Fl
 
First off, before I get yield at, I have been through search and could not find an answer to this question. I am trying to view raw files in windows. Currently I shoot in raw and jpeg so I can preview my pictures prior to bringing them into lr for pp. I realize that there are many free programs out there that will allow me to view my raw images including a program from canon. I am not being lazy but it seems like a waste of time to view images twice before going to LR. I could be that there is not an answer to this question. If that is the case sorry for the interruption!!

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Nov 17, 2018 12:56:43   #
Brian Hartnell Loc: Marinette WI
 
There is a Free software program called Faststone Image Viewer that is at version 6.7 and is faster than heck and reads virtually any file format from any camera including all raw files. It creates thumbnails extremely quickly and allows you to preview your media card or hard drives to do virtually anything you want to do with it. If all you used it for is previewing your Raw or other photo galleries, it is a real time saver. Windows sucks for reading any file formats other than png, jpg, bmp some other assorted file formats but really does stumble on Raw files. I would just set your default photo viewer to Faststone and ignore Microsofts photo viewer. Faststone also reads PSD files so if you have galleries of mixed formats, they will thumbnail with no problem. Obviously LR is your preferred editor pp program but for initial views or just cruising thru the gallery of images without opening light room, Faststone is the software of choice for speed. Once you get it, you will explore the tons of things it can do to a photo that may offer you some easy fixes if you decide not to open LR. Here is the link, check it out: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

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Nov 17, 2018 13:15:35   #
markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ
 
That is what I use. It's fast, free and if desired, can even apply some editing features. I do not use it for editing - I use Photoshop CC 2019.
Mark
Brian Hartnell wrote:
There is a Free software program called Faststone Image Viewer that is at version 6.7 and is faster than heck and reads virtually any file format from any camera including all raw files. It creates thumbnails extremely quickly and allows you to preview your media card or hard drives to do virtually anything you want to do with it. If all you used it for is previewing your Raw or other photo galleries, it is a real time saver. Windows sucks for reading any file formats other than png, jpg, bmp some other assorted file formats but really does stumble on Raw files. I would just set your default photo viewer to Faststone and ignore Microsofts photo viewer. Faststone also reads PSD files so if you have galleries of mixed formats, they will thumbnail with no problem. Obviously LR is your preferred editor pp program but for initial views or just cruising thru the gallery of images without opening light room, Faststone is the software of choice for speed. Once you get it, you will explore the tons of things it can do to a photo that may offer you some easy fixes if you decide not to open LR. Here is the link, check it out: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
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Nov 17, 2018 13:17:44   #
jak86094
 
Mike:

Why not bring them into Lightroom immediately. Then go through the images, deciding which to delete and pressing "x" to mark those as "Rejected". If you click "x" then change your mind, just click "u" to remove the "rejected" flag.

When you have reviewed all your downloads, click the Photo menu and at the very bottom of that menu you will find "Delete Rejected Photos...". You will then have 3 options..."Delete from Disk" (which deletes the Rejected files from Lightroom and from your HD if you have already saved them there), "Cancel" (which cancels the deletion), and "Remove" (which removes the images from Lightroom but not your HD if saved there). I have found this to be the quickest process for culling through images and importing them to Lightroom.

While scrolling through the various images, you can use any of the other Lightroom tools...rating the other images 1-5 or with stars, etc. You can also do some initial PP, e.g., increasing the exposure to see what an underexposed image really looks like...which helps me decide whether it should be Rejected. You might give this a try. Hope you find something that works for you.

jak

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Nov 17, 2018 13:19:16   #
amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
 
Mike Holmes wrote:
First off, before I get yield at, I have been through search and could not find an answer to this question. I am trying to view raw files in windows. Currently I shoot in raw and jpeg so I can preview my pictures prior to bringing them into lr for pp. I realize that there are many free programs out there that will allow me to view my raw images including a program from canon. I am not being lazy but it seems like a waste of time to view images twice before going to LR. I could be that there is not an answer to this question. If that is the case sorry for the interruption!!
First off, before I get yield at, I have been thro... (show quote)


Spend a little money (not much... $10) and get and install a copy of the Fastpictureviewer codec: https://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/

This allows RAW files of all types (and some other types of files) to be seen as small, medium or large icons while in Windows Explorer.

It also supports opening an enlarged version of the un-processed RAW in Windows Picture Viewer and possibly some of the other media programs built into Windows (Pic Viewer is the only one I use). Be aware that since those files haven't been processed yet, they will look desaturated. Don't use it to judge color and exposure.... but it's fine for checking composition, focus, etc.

Canon used to provide a codec of their own, but never revised it to work on 64 bit systems, AFAIK. It only worked with Canon RAW files, too....

Fastpictureviewer has worked with every RAW file I've ever tried (Nikon, Oly, Pentax, in addition to Canon). It also displays TIFFs and some other file types that Windows can't usually handle.

Frankly, I don't know why Microsoft hasn't bought out Fastpictureviewer and incorporated it into their OS. There's really no excuse for not doing something like that.

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Nov 17, 2018 13:21:27   #
Bill_de Loc: US
 
It would depend on the camera. For Nikon "NEF" you just need to download the codec from Nikon.

https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/sw/97.html

I imagine other makes have something similar.

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Nov 17, 2018 13:54:41   #
Mike Holmes Loc: The Villages Fl
 
I am not familiar with "codec". Is this something which could be added to windows 10 which would recognize canon raw files?

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Nov 17, 2018 14:41:31   #
Linary Loc: UK
 
Mike Holmes wrote:
I am not familiar with "codec". Is this something which could be added to windows 10 which would recognize canon raw files?


Amphoto posted a link to a codec pack which will allow your windows 10 computer to view the preview stored within raw files such as nef, cr2 and many others. The images will display in all the Windows programs such as Explorer, Windows Photo Viewer, etc. I have it installed on my computer and no longer have problems viewing any raw files, psd, ai, afphoto or afdesign files.

Money well spent.

I believe it stands for Coder/Decoder

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Nov 17, 2018 14:48:05   #
Linary Loc: UK
 
amfoto1 wrote:


Frankly, I don't know why Microsoft hasn't bought out Fastpictureviewer and incorporated it into their OS. There's really no excuse for not doing something like that.


A year or two ago, Microsoft announced they would withdraw from proving codecs other than those (mainstream type) built into Windows 10. Other codecs they would leave to 3rd party manufacturers. Microsoft gave no reasons for their decision.

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Nov 17, 2018 14:56:24   #
markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ
 
Thanks Alan!! I just downloaded the free trial program. It works flawlessly. I'll purchase when the trial period expires.
Mark

[erio[quote=amfoto1]Spend a little money (not much... $10) and get and install a copy of the Fastpictureviewer codec: https://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/

This allows RAW files of all types (and some other types of files) to be seen as small, medium or large icons while in Windows Explorer.

It also supports opening an enlarged version of the un-processed RAW in Windows Picture Viewer and possibly some of the other media programs built into Windows (Pic Viewer is the only one I use). Be aware that since those files haven't been processed yet, they will look desaturated. Don't use it to judge color and exposure.... but it's fine for checking composition, focus, etc.

Canon used to provide a codec of their own, but never revised it to work on 64 bit systems, AFAIK. It only worked with Canon RAW files, too....

Fastpictureviewer has worked with every RAW file I've ever tried (Nikon, Oly, Pentax, in addition to Canon). It also displays TIFFs and some other file types that Windows can't usually handle.

Frankly, I don't know why Microsoft hasn't bought out Fastpictureviewer and incorporated it into their OS. There's really no excuse for not doing something like that.[/quote]

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Nov 17, 2018 15:58:22   #
User ID
 
amfoto1 wrote:

Spend a little money (not much... $10) and get and install a
copy of the Fastpictureviewer codec: https://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/

This allows RAW files of all types (and some other types of files)
to be seen as small, medium or large icons while in Windows Explorer.

It also supports opening an enlarged version of the un-processed
RAW in Windows Picture Viewer and possibly some of the other media
programs built into Windows ..................................
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My Win10 PCs do that right out of the box, but not my Win8.
Maybe the codec is included in Win10 ?


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Nov 17, 2018 15:59:59   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
I select my photos right in LR.

1) Download all the shots to the hard drive
2) import all the shots into LR. That leaves me with LR looking at the most recent import in the library.
3) Using Loupe View (press 'E') I just start looking through the images. I can use the arrow keys to go to the next one. If I see one that's truly awful, I press 'X', which flags it as rejected (but doesn't delete it). When I see one that I think could be a keeper I presss '6'. That gives that image a red label. If I see a set of images that I want to send to Photoshop (panorama, focus stacking, etc.) I select them all, switch momentarily to grid view ('G') and press '9'. That gives all the images a blue label. I then press 'E' to return to Loupe view.
4) When I'm done, I go to grid view and filter on photos with a red label. I can then go through them and edit them. If I want to pause editing of a particular image or if I think it's OK but could be better with more work I press '7' for a yellow label. If I think the image is done I press '8' for a green label. I can then filter on the blue label and work through the images to be done in PS.
5) I'm done with the first editing pass so I filter on unlabelled images, select them all in grid view and delete them from the catalog (but not from the disk). I filter on the reject flag, select them all and delete them (from the disk as well as the catalog).
6) If I have free time later I will go back and check out the yellow labelled photos for further edits.
7) Done editing. Back everything up, Then reformat the card.

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Nov 17, 2018 18:15:55   #
Mike Holmes Loc: The Villages Fl
 
My win10 which I just installed on a new computer, will not display raw canon files

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Nov 17, 2018 21:08:30   #
markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ
 
It will not. Win10 does move the built in codec. Mark
Mike Holmes wrote:
My win10 which I just installed on a new computer, will not display raw canon files

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Nov 17, 2018 23:26:30   #
repleo Loc: Boston
 
amfoto1 wrote:
Spend a little money (not much... $10) and get and install a copy of the Fastpictureviewer codec: https://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/

This allows RAW files of all types (and some other types of files) to be seen as small, medium or large icons while in Windows Explorer.

It also supports opening an enlarged version of the un-processed RAW in Windows Picture Viewer and possibly some of the other media programs built into Windows (Pic Viewer is the only one I use). Be aware that since those files haven't been processed yet, they will look desaturated. Don't use it to judge color and exposure.... but it's fine for checking composition, focus, etc.

Canon used to provide a codec of their own, but never revised it to work on 64 bit systems, AFAIK. It only worked with Canon RAW files, too....

Fastpictureviewer has worked with every RAW file I've ever tried (Nikon, Oly, Pentax, in addition to Canon). It also displays TIFFs and some other file types that Windows can't usually handle.

Frankly, I don't know why Microsoft hasn't bought out Fastpictureviewer and incorporated it into their OS. There's really no excuse for not doing something like that.
Spend a little money (not much... $10) and get and... (show quote)


Thanks Amfoto1. I just dowloaded FastPictureViewer. I've been looking for something like this since I started shooting RAW. Now I can stop shooting RAW+JPEG. Well worth the $10.
Thanks again.

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