Digital Home Thoughts: FastPictureViewer Offer Free RAW Codec Pack

"Windows Vista introduced a modern and extensible imaging framework called Windows Imaging Component (WIC). The operating system comes with built-in support for several common image formats including jpeg, bmp, png, gif, tiff and HD Photo. WIC makes it possible for 3rd parties to add first-class support for image formats to Windows, complete with thumbnails in Explorer, preview and slideshow support in Photo Gallery / Photo Viewer and metadata search integration."

If you take your photos in RAW format to give you more control over the final image once you get home, then you might want to download this free codec pack from FastPictureViewer. It allows you to view the RAW images as thumbnails in windows explorer without having to load them in to a third party application first to view them. This makes it much easier to quickly scan your pictures to find the one you want to edit or display. It also allows you to view the RAW images through other viewers such as Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows 7 Media Center.