Whether you are a SLR, card digital camera or mobile phone camera owner, friends who like photography and photography should understand the RAW file format.

Considering the novice friends, Soft Media specially wants to say a few words here - the original meaning of RAW is "unprocessed", which can be understood as: RAW image is a CMOS or CCD image sensor that converts the captured light source signal into a digital signal. raw data. A RAW file is a file that records the original information of a digital camera sensor, and also records some raw data (Metadata, such as ISO settings, shutter speed, aperture value, white balance, etc.) generated by the camera. RAW is an unprocessed and uncompressed format. RAW can be conceptualized as "original image encoded data" or more vividly as "digital negative".

In other words, the original RAW format is actually the most important. From this "negative" format, you can re-process it to produce more dazzling and cool effects you want, such as LOMO and so on.

However, now comes the problem. Win7 and Vista systems cannot preview RAW files in the resource manager, which is really inconvenient. Fortunately, Microsoft today updated a Windows 7 RAW support package (Microsoft Camera Codec Pack 16.0.0652.0621) that supports 32 and 64 bits. Installing the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack can not only preview RAW thumbnails in resource management, but also enable Windows Live The photo library program supports RAW format files, nice right?

Microsoft Camera Codec Pack supports image formats captured by the following devices:

◦Canon:EOS 1000D (EOS Kiss F in Japan and the EOS Rebel 300D (the Kiss Digital in Japan and the Digital Rebel in North America), EOS 30D, EOS 350D (the Canon EOS Kiss Digital N in Japan and EOS Digital Rebel XT in North America), EOS 400D (the Kiss Digital X in Japan and the Digital Rebel XTi in North America), EOS 40D, EOS 450D (EOS Kiss X2 in Japan and the EOS Rebel XSi in North America), EOS 500D (EOS Kiss X3 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T1i in North America), EOS 550D (EOS Kiss X4 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T2i in North America), EOS 50D, EOS 5D, EOS 5D Mk2, EOS 7D, EOS D30, EOS D60, G2, G3 , G5, G6, G9, G10, G11, Pro1, S90

◦ Nikon:D100, D1H, D200, D2H, D2Hs, D2X, D2Xs, D3, D3s, D300, D3000, D300s, D3X, D40, D40x, D50, D5000, D60, D70, D700, D70s, D80, D90, P6000

◦ Sony:A100, A200, A230, A300, A330, A350, A380, A700, A850, A900, DSC-R1

◦ Olympus: C7070, C8080, E1, E10, E20, E3, E30, E300, E330, E400, E410, E420, E450, E500, E510, E520, E620, EP1

◦ Pentax (PEF formats only):K100D, K100D Super, K10D, K110D, K200D, K20D, K7, K-x, *ist D, *ist DL, *ist DS

◦ Leica:Digilux 3, D-LUX4, M8, M9

◦ Minolta:DiMage A1, DiMage A2, Maxxum 7D (Dynax 7D in Europe, α-7 Digital in Japan)

◦ Epson:RD1

◦ Panasonic: G1, GH1, GF1, LX3

Microsoft Camera Codec Pack official website:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26829

Supported systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2

64-bit download (8 MB):
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/1/F/A1F26927-3966-4E2E-A30A-DC78D3408527/MicrosoftCodecPack_amd64.msi

32-bit download (4 MB):
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/1/F/A1F26927-3966-4E2E-A30A-DC78D3408527/MicrosoftCodecPack_x86.msi