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| Microsoft releases Camera Codec Pack for Windows Vista, 7 (updated) |
| Wednesday, July 27, 2011 | by Eamon Hickey |
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Microsoft has announced the Camera Codec Pack for Windows 7 and Windows Vista (SP2). Available as a free download, the new software gives Windows Explorer and Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 the ability to display RAW image files from more than 120 cameras.
Windows Live Photo Gallery can also convert RAW files to JPEG or JPEG-XR format.
Camera Codec Pack is available in both 32 bit and 64 bit variants,
and supports a long list of camera RAW files from Canon, Nikon, Sony,
Olympus, Pentax, Minolta, Epson and Panasonic, though a number of newer
cameras are missing. For example, not on the list of Canon cameras is
the EOS 60D, EOS Rebel T3i/600D and Powershot G12; missing for Nikon is
the D7000, D5100 and P7000.
The supported models, as stated on the download page, are:
The Microsoft Camera Codec Pack provides support for the following device formats:
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Canon: EOS 1000D (EOS Kiss
F in Japan and the EOS Rebel XS in North America), EOS 10D, EOS 1D Mk2,
EOS 1D Mk3, EOS 1D Mk4, EOS 1D Mk2 N, EOS 1Ds Mk2, EOS 1Ds Mk3, EOS
20D, EOS 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
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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
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Sony: A100, A200, A230, A300, A330, A350, A380, A700, A850, A900, DSC-R1
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Olympus: C7070, C8080, E1, E10, E20, E3, E30, E300, E330, E400, E410, E420, E450, E500, E510, E520, E620, EP1
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Pentax (PEF formats only): K100D, K100D Super, K10D, K110D, K200D, K20D, K7, K-x, *ist D, *ist DL, *ist DS
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Leica: Digilux 3, D-LUX4, M8, M9
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Minolta: DiMage A1, DiMage A2, Maxxum 7D (Dynax 7D in Europe, α-7 Digital in Japan)
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Epson: RD1
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Panasonic: G1, GH1, GF1, LX3
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Canon and Nikon distribute their own RAW format codecs for Windows as
well, ones that do include support for the newest models. They are
limited to 32-bit operating system versions, however, so the primary
advantage of Microsoft's Camera Codec Pack may be 64-bit compatibility.
For more information and to download Canon's and Nikon's own codec
bundles, follow a link below:
Revision History
July 27, 2011: Added more detail about supported cameras and links to alternate codecs from Canon and Nikon
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