Why did they end Zoombrowser: I am curious. For those that want a very simple photo editor, Picasa, and for Canon users, Zoombrowser EX, were great solutions. I was going to suggest...

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

I am curious. For those that want a very simple photo editor, Picasa, and for Canon users, Zoombrowser EX, were great solutions. I was going to suggest Zoombrowser to a new Canon owner of an older camera, but found Canon no longer offers it on its website. Other than its ability to work with RAW files, I still find Zoombrowser handy for simple work on JPGs. I don't enter contests or pixel peep, so I'm probably less critical about my photos as some of you, but that works for me.

Bison Bud

I think that Canon's Zoombrowser EX is the best .jpeg editor out there and it takes care of most of my needs and then some. I only edit RAW files if there is really something special that I want to get the most out of and make the extra effort on. Frankly, I'm really sorry to hear that Canon may have discontinued it, but my current copy will be running on my Windows 7 computer for a long while to come. Good luck and good shooting to all.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Thanks for the warning. I'll copy the install file to my archive.
I have a few programs in the archive, that oddly, work in Win 11.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

Longshadow wrote:

Thanks for the warning. I'll copy the install file to my archive.
I have a few programs in the archive, that oddly, work in Win 11.

Same here. I recently got a new PC running Win 11. I keep installation files in my Download folder which I recovered from my external backup drive so I can install when either I upgrade to new PC or reinstall Windows (the latter being a RARE occurrence). So I have the Zoombrowser install and upgrade files there.

kcooke Loc: Alabama

It is located here on Canons European website.

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer_products/software/zoombrowser-ex.html?os=&language=

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

Bison Bud wrote:

I think that Canon's Zoombrowser EX is the best .jpeg editor out there and it takes care of most of my needs and then some. I only edit RAW files if there is really something special that I want to get the most out of and make the extra effort on. Frankly, I'm really sorry to hear that Canon may have discontinued it, but my current copy will be running on my Windows 7 computer for a long while to come. Good luck and good shooting to all.

I hardly ever bother to even shoot in RAW, only when I'm going for an artsy photo.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

kcooke wrote:

It is located here on Canons European website.

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer_products/software/zoombrowser-ex.html?os=&language=

Interesting. It isn't in the USA site, but they do say Imagebrowser has the features of Zoombrowser, but I can't find it. The European site has the updater, but I was unable to find the full version needed before the update.

EDIT I found it in the European site, but I couldn't download it or Imagebrowser. It kept saying it wasn't compatible with either Windows 7 or 10 (64 bit)

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

PHRubin wrote:

Same here. I recently got a new PC running Win 11. I keep installation files in my Download folder which I recovered from my external backup drive so I can install when either I upgrade to new PC or reinstall Windows (the latter being a RARE occurrence). So I have the Zoombrowser install and upgrade files there.

Keep using them until they no longer install!

My two oldest are from the mid 90s, WS_FTP-95 and Spider Pad.
WinSock FTP (a file transfer protocol written for Windows 95 that I use exclusively to get web pages to/from the server); and an HTML editor.
The HTML editor was written by a guy in High School at the time!!! It was Shareware. He did an excellent job on that program!

kcooke Loc: Alabama

Also it may have been replaced by something they call
ImageBrowser EX

Bill_de Loc: US

PHRubin wrote:

I am curious. For those that want a very simple photo editor, Picasa, and for Canon users, Zoombrowser EX, were great solutions. I was going to suggest Zoombrowser to a new Canon owner of an older camera, but found Canon no longer offers it on its website. Other than its ability to work with RAW files, I still find Zoombrowser handy for simple work on JPGs. I don't enter contests or pixel peep, so I'm probably less critical about my photos as some of you, but that works for me.

They end things when not enough "new" users show interest.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Bill_de wrote:

They end things when not enough "new" users show interest.

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So many good things die that way.

Ed Walker Loc: Eclectic, Alabama U.S.A.

I still use it on Windows 10 Home 64 bit. I, too, have the installation files saved. It is especially useful when I take a burst of pics and compare them side-by-side to see which is best. I then open the best in Affinity.

JBRIII

A bigger problem, for me, are devices which work off cell phones. Many astronomy apps and now devices, telescopes, tripod heads, etc. use apps. While older versions may work on an older phone or pad, updates or newer versions (somethings older versions are no longer available or are disabled) will not. In addition, some use bluetooth and WiFi and can require updated versions, etc., i.e., only 5 GH wifi. I have the situation where one device once worked on 5 devices, but dropped to two with a new, really improved program. So far, backward compatibility of old apps on new devices hasn't cropped up.

I have heard talk of cars needing cell phones to start, imagine getting a critical update and finding you also need a new phone.

Canisdirus

Canon is still making a very big push to get everyone all in on their mirrorless system...closing out options.

This is not surprising at all.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

It may be that Canon simply does not have anyone to support the older software.