- Designate picasa photo viewer as default in windows 10 driver#
- Designate picasa photo viewer as default in windows 10 windows#
but then when you copy them to the computer you say you can no longer can see them?
Designate picasa photo viewer as default in windows 10 windows#
I assume you can see the filenames on the memory card using Windows Explorer. You've got something strange happening there. I've been viewing A55 ARW files on my Win7 64 machines for several years. I wondered if it might even be some weird a55 specific thing. I'm not seeing some generic file icon or unknown file type I'm simply no evidence of a file even being on the computer. I don't even get a low res JPG version I get nada. I am using W7 64 bit, and trying to view RAW files from a Sony a55v. That seems unlikely, but I remember some Sigma lenses have issues specifically with a55 and a couple of other models, so is there something peculiar to them? Apologies for the general naivety. Meanwhile Panasonic's Silkypix is happily showing working with Lumix RAW files, so it's presumably not some global windows issue. I just wanted to stress that I'm not seeing some generic file icon or unknown file type I'm simply no evidence of a file even being on the computer. Or Paint Shop Pro, or anything except the Camera itself. Lightbox can't see RAW files neither can Sony's Data Converter SR. Which specifically identifies my camera and OS.
Designate picasa photo viewer as default in windows 10 driver#
I downloaded Sony's RAW Driver Download at I downloaded the supposedly updatd image codes from Microsoft, making certain they were for my OS, and reset the computer. If I save RAW=JPG I get the JPG alone, but otherwise Photo Gallery sees nothing. I'm not sure if someone can help me here the discussion following this initial post became rather confusing to me Is there a better codec for using Windows native photo viewer or similar? Moreover, there are no options for the decoding of sony RAW.īasically when you try and view a Sony RAW file using Windows and the Sony RAW codec, windows pulls a low res (JPEG?) version of the picture from the RAW which is ok for thumbnails but not actually viewing. It apparently cannot decode sony raw or something, I am unable to zoom 1:1. Some of our codecs (DNG, NEF, CR2.) ship with the JPEG option enabled by default, but you can use the supplied control panel configuration applet to change this behavior in a few clicks." Our raw codecs also operate _much_ quicker for large size viewing in Windows Photo Viewer or Photo Gallery when using the JPEG data instead of the raw data as a basis to create the images.
Using the JPEG preview is appropriate in most cases for Explorer thumbnails and quick previews in Windows Photo Viewer, moreover the preview image typically reflects all camera settings such as white balance, sharpening, contrast, picture controls and usually looks better than the "as shot" basic raw conversion performed otherwise.
The tool allows to configure certain codecs to force them to always use the embedded JPEG preview image, and never decode the raw data from scratch.
"The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack ships with a Control Panel applet that let advanced users configure some aspects of the codec's operations.