A free collection of 32 and 64-bit RAW image decoders for Windows 7, Vista and XP.

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. The FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack provides such platform support for additional formats and turns Windows Explorer into a raw viewer, through read-only image decoders, simultaneously available in both 32 and 64-bit flavor for Win7, Vista and XP SP3. The codec pack contains 32-bit and 64-bit NEF and 64-bit CR2 codecs, along with 64-bit DNG and a lot more! WIC-enabled image viewers such as Windows Live™ Photo Gallery, Windows 7's Media Center and our own FastPictureViewer Professional "automagically" gain the ability to open and view new image formats, play slideshows etc, so does all .NET 3.x and WPF-based applications. Unconvinced? Since the initial release last September we got tens of thousands of codec packs successfully deployed and thousands of websites pointing at us from all around the world, even microsoft.com points to this page from their Codec Download Page, check it out!

 

The WIC RAW Codec Pack in action on Windows 7 64-bit (21 RAW formats supported):

Windows 7's Built-In Photo Viewer learns new tricks (Nikon NEF file displayed):

Explorer Metadata Search Integration: find images by tags, date taken, author etc...

Viewing and Slideshows in Windows 7 Media Center. Works with MC extenders too!

Image file formats currently supported by the FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack

The FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack was first released on September 12, 2009 and currently supports the TGA raster image format along with Adobe DNG and 22 RAW image formats from 16 camera manufacturers, covering more than 300 digital camera models. All formats and features are supported on both 32 and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Vista with Platform Update. The package also ships with a Windows XP thumbnail provider, enabling thumbnail view support in XP SP3 Explorer for all image formats handled by the codecs included in the pack.

Raster Image Formats
Extension(s)	Name	Autorotate	Metadata	Remarks
*.tga, *.tpic, *.vda,*.icb,*.vst	Truevision Targa (TGA)	n/a	n/a	Supports most format flavors: uncompressed and RLE-encoded grayscale 8 and 16-bit, true color 15, 16, 24 and 32-bit (with alpha) and 8-bit indexed with 15, 16, 24 and 32-bit colormap.
Raw Image Formats
Extension(s)	Name	Autorotate	Metadata	Remarks
*.dng	Adobe Digital Negative	Y	Y	Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use embedded previews instead. Note that preview images can be of lower resolution than the real image.
*.cr2, *.crw	Canon Raw Image	Y	Y	Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use embedded previews instead. Note that Canon previews are usually of lower resolution than the real image.
*.erf	Epson Raw Image	Y	Y
*.raf	Fuji Raw Image	Y	Y
*.3pr, *.fff	Hasselblad Raw Image	Y	Y
*.dcr, *.kdc	Kodak Raw Image	Y	Y
*.raw, *.rwl	Leica Raw Image	Y	Y
*.mef	Mamiya Raw Image	n/a	Y	Full (slow) raw decoding only.
*.mrw	Minolta Raw Image	Y	Y
*.nef, *.nrw	Nikon Raw Image	Y	Y	Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use full-size embedded previews instead (shows NX edits)
*.orf	Olympus Raw Image	Y	Y
*.rw2	Panasonic Raw Image	Y	Y
*.pef	Pentax Raw Image	Y	Y
*.x3f	Sigma Raw Image	Y	Y	JPEG Preview only
*.cs1	Sinar Raw Image	n/a	N	Full (slow) raw decoding only. Sinar CaptureShop 1 raw images.
*.arw, *.sr2, *.srf	Sony Raw Image	Y	Y
Additional Features
Extension(s)	Name	Remarks
All formats	WIC Thumbnail Provider for XP	Provides support for thumbnail views in Windows XP Explorer (SP3), for all the above formats, plus HD Photo / JPEG XR files. Also works with Windows XP 64 SP2, provided that WIC 64 is installed on the computer.
All formats	32/64-bit WIC Import Plug-In for Adobe Photoshop CS3/CS4	Enables Adobe Photoshop CS3/CS4 to directly import images from any installed WIC codec, bypassing ACR entirely. The plug-in is available as a small separate download. This 90KB package contains both 32 and 64-bit versions of the plugin, along with succint installation instructions. Once installed, the plug-in appears in Photoshop's File->Import menu and let you open any supported file directly.
All formats	Windows 7 SlideShow Gadget	Windows SlideShow gadget, modified to support RAW formats. The gadget is available as a separate download. Unzip to "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Shared Gadgets\".
Links to 3rd Party Add-Ins and Utilities
Extension(s)	Name	Remarks
Some	Paint.NET Plugin (RAWLOAD)	Let Paint.NET users import raw images through some of the codecs from this pack. Currently in testing, see this post in Paint.NET's forum.

Is it really free?

The FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack can be obtained and tested freely but is not freeware. We release it as donationware, which means that you are expected to make a donation (of a reasonable amount left to your appreciation) if you find it useful and elect to keep it.

If you find the codec pack useful, please consider a donation to show your appreciation and support the developement of possible future versions. Thank you!

What users say about it?

"[...] makes browsing folders of raw and dng files in Windows Explorer a hell of a lot easier" - pixelform.com
"[...] everything works [...] Life is Good" - Adobe forum member
"Works great" - members of the Nikon Capture NX group on Flickr
"A really nice solution" - digitalmediaphile.com
"Works great with Vista 64bit" - DPReview.com forum member
"Full support inside Windows 7 RTM" - WindowsLive.com blogger
"Raw Thumbnail support for Windows (32/64-bit)" - NikonRumors.com (weekly related news and links)
"No problems so far" - SevenForums.com
"The first time I've been able to get the thumbnails to actually show up in Explorer" - Flickr user
"The initial impression is very good indeed" - James O'Neil's blog (Microsoft Technical Evangelist)
"RAW preview codec that actually works!" - PentaxForums.com
"Finally a free solution for viewing NEF thumbs in Win 7 x64" - Asrtechnica forum user

Licensing for commercial use, bundling

 Commercial use (including redistribution and bundling) requires a license, please contact us for details. Axel Rietschin Software Developments retains all rights to the FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack and all its content.

Possible future formats

Without making any kind of commitment, we are investigating a few image formats for possible future inclusion in the FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack. Formats currently under consideration includes Radiance's HDR and ILM's OpenEXR, two of the most popular formats in the Computer Graphics industry, along with DDS and PPM.

Custom codec development

We have the skills and minute attention to details required to design and develop highest-quality custom WIC codec solutions for your image formats, including strong Windows platform knowledge, intimate image file format and metadata knowledge. We are also experts in the lost art of native 32 and 64-bit C/C++ and COM development. Contact us with your project idea, or if you'd like us to develop customized or read/write versions of some of the codecs included in the FastPictureViewer WIC Codec Pack. We can make your own 32/64-bit WIC codec a reality.

Will this wreak havoc with my computer?

No. The image codecs are passive components that gets loaded only when required, and we don't overwrite anything in your machine. Our codecs passed all Vista and Windows 7 conformance tests with flying colors (Microsoft has published a set of tools for WIC image codecs validation for Windows 7 and Vista) and we got zero horror story report either during the beta (more than 1200 installs) or since the launch, with several tens of thousands copies installed so far. The codecs also uninstall themselves cleanly and use very little disk space (less than 5 MB for a full installation), so it's not an invasive technology taking over your computer. Newly supported raw formats are associated with the default photo viewer (Photo Gallery on Vista and Photo Viewer on Windows 7), as required by the codec's developement guide. On Windows XP SP3 you need to download and install Windows Live Photo Gallery or FastPictureViewer Professional for full-size viewing.

Any bundled adware, spyware, malware, toolbarware, whatever-ware?

No.

Can I use raw files as desktop background or in slideshows?

Yes, we have enabled the "Set as desktop background" right-click context menu option for all the file formats we support, in Windows 7 and Vista. You can also watch raw slideshows diectly from Photo Gallery / Photo Viewer and, on Windows 7, Media Center (that means you can watch raw image's slideshows on your livingroom TV, with the appropriate Media Center Extender). The print and email function of Photo Gallery are also enabled. What you cannot do, on the other hand, is add a folder containing raw files as a picture location for automatic background image changer: only JPEG and BMPs are compatible with this new Windows 7 features.

Developer's corner

From time to time we get inquiries from developers wanting to use our codecs with their application. Here are the answers to the most common questions: you can develop an application that relies on our codecs for image access, but your end users need to download and install the codec pack themselves. In particular, bundling the codec pack or any part of its content is not allowed. You must make it clear that the codecs comes from a third party and direct your end-users to this web page of you want them to use our codecs.

There is no OCX or DLL that can be used to access the codecs from older development environments. On the other hand, any application developer can use the WIC imaging framework, which is part of Windows and documented on MSDN, to access images. Application going through WIC will automatically benefit from any installed codec(s) and will gain instant raw files access without any modification once our codecs are installed on the end-user machine. WIC is COM based and can be programmed from many languages and development environments, moreover, .NET 3.x (or later) developers using System.Windows.Media.Imaging for image access automatically benefit from installed codecs.

Indicative camera brand/models list: Adobe Digital Negative (DNG) Canon PowerShot 600 Canon PowerShot A5 Canon PowerShot A5 Zoom Canon PowerShot A50 Canon PowerShot A460 Canon PowerShot A470 Canon PowerShot A530 Canon PowerShot A570 Canon PowerShot A590 Canon PowerShot A610 Canon PowerShot A620 Canon PowerShot A630 Canon PowerShot A640 Canon PowerShot A650 Canon PowerShot A710 IS Canon PowerShot A720 IS Canon PowerShot Pro70 Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS Canon PowerShot Pro1 Canon PowerShot G1 Canon PowerShot G2 Canon PowerShot G3 Canon PowerShot G5 Canon PowerShot G6 Canon PowerShot G7 Canon PowerShot G9 Canon PowerShot G10 Canon PowerShot G11 Canon PowerShot S2 IS Canon PowerShot S3 IS Canon PowerShot S5 IS Canon PowerShot SD300 Canon PowerShot S30 Canon PowerShot S40 Canon PowerShot S45 Canon PowerShot S50 Canon PowerShot S60 Canon PowerShot S70 Canon PowerShot S90 Canon PowerShot SX1 IS Canon PowerShot SX110 IS Canon Digital Rebel Canon Digital Rebel XT Canon Digital Rebel XTi Canon Digital Rebel XSi Canon Digital Rebel T1i Canon Digital Rebel XS Canon EOS D30 Canon EOS D60 Canon EOS 5D Canon EOS 5D Mark II Canon EOS 7D Canon EOS 10D Canon EOS 20D Canon EOS 30D Canon EOS 40D Canon EOS 50D Canon EOS 300D Canon EOS 350D Canon EOS 400D Canon EOS 450D Canon EOS 500D Canon EOS 1000D Canon EOS D2000C Canon EOS-1D Canon EOS-1DS Canon EOS-1D Mark II Canon EOS-1D Mark II N Canon EOS-1D Mark III Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Canon Kiss Digital Canon Kiss Digital N Canon Kiss Digital X Canon Kiss Digital X2 Canon Kiss Digital X3 Canon Kiss Digital F Epson R-D1 Fuji FinePix E550 Fuji FinePix E900 Fuji FinePix F700 Fuji FinePix F710 Fuji FinePix F800 Fuji FinePix F810 Fuji FinePix S2Pro Fuji FinePix S3Pro Fuji FinePix S5Pro Fuji FinePix S20Pro Fuji FinePix S100FS Fuji FinePix S5000 Fuji FinePix S5100 Fuji FinePix S5200 Fuji FinePix S5500 Fuji FinePix S5600 Fuji FinePix S6000fd Fuji FinePix S7000 Fuji FinePix S9000 Fuji FinePix S9100 Fuji FinePix S9500 Fuji FinePix S9600 Fuji FinePix S200EXR Fuji IS-1 Hasselblad CFV Hasselblad H3D Hasselblad V96C Kodak DC20 Kodak DC25 Kodak DC40 Kodak DC50 Kodak DC120 Kodak DCS200 Kodak DCS315C Kodak DCS330C Kodak DCS420 Kodak DCS460 Kodak DCS460A Kodak DCS520C Kodak DCS560C Kodak DCS620C Kodak DCS620X Kodak DCS660C Kodak DCS660M Kodak DCS720X Kodak DCS760C Kodak DCS760M Kodak EOSDCS1 Kodak EOSDCS3B Kodak NC2000F Kodak ProBack Kodak PB645C Kodak PB645H Kodak PB645M Kodak DCS Pro 14n Kodak DCS Pro 14nx Kodak DCS Pro SLR/c Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n Kodak C330 Kodak C603 Kodak P850 Kodak P880 Kodak Z980 Kodak Z1015 Kodak KAI-0340 Leica Digilux 2 Leica Digilux 3 Leica D-LUX2 Leica D-LUX3 Leica D-LUX4 Leica V-LUX1 Mamiya ZD Minolta RD175 Minolta DiMAGE 5

Minolta DiMAGE 7 Minolta DiMAGE 7i Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi Minolta DiMAGE A1 Minolta DiMAGE A2 Minolta DiMAGE A200 Minolta DiMAGE G400 Minolta DiMAGE G500 Minolta DiMAGE G530 Minolta DiMAGE G600 Minolta DiMAGE Z2 Minolta Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 5D Minolta Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 7D Nikon D1 Nikon D1H Nikon D1X Nikon D2H Nikon D2Hs Nikon D2X Nikon D2Xs Nikon D3 Nikon D3S Nikon D3X Nikon D40 Nikon D40x Nikon D50 Nikon D60 Nikon D70 Nikon D70s Nikon D80 Nikon D90 Nikon D100 Nikon D200 Nikon D300 Nikon D300s Nikon D700 Nikon D3000 Nikon D5000 Nikon E700 Nikon E800 Nikon E880 Nikon E900 Nikon E950 Nikon E990 Nikon E995 Nikon E2100 Nikon E2500 Nikon E3200 Nikon E3700 Nikon E4300 Nikon E4500 Nikon E5000 Nikon E5400 Nikon E5700 Nikon E8400 Nikon E8700 Nikon E8800 Nikon Coolpix P6000 Nikon Coolpix S6 Olympus C3030Z Olympus C5050Z Olympus C5060WZ Olympus C7070WZ Olympus C70Z Olympus C7000Z Olympus C740UZ Olympus C770UZ Olympus C8080WZ Olympus X200 Olympus D560Z Olympus C350Z Olympus E-1 Olympus E-3 Olympus E-10 Olympus E-20 Olympus E-30 Olympus E-300 Olympus E-330 Olympus E-400 Olympus E-410 Olympus E-420 Olympus E-500 Olympus E-510 Olympus E-520 Olympus E-620 Olympus E-P1 Olympus SP310 Olympus SP320 Olympus SP350 Olympus SP500UZ Olympus SP510UZ Olympus SP550UZ Olympus SP560UZ Olympus SP570UZ Panasonic DMC-FZ8 Panasonic DMC-FZ18 Panasonic DMC-FZ28 Panasonic DMC-FZ30 Panasonic DMC-FZ35 Panasonic DMC-FZ38 Panasonic DMC-FZ50 Panasonic DMC-FX150 Panasonic DMC-G1 Panasonic DMC-GF1 Panasonic DMC-GH1 Panasonic DMC-L1 Panasonic DMC-L10 Panasonic DMC-LC1 Panasonic DMC-LX1 Panasonic DMC-LX2 Panasonic DMC-LX3 Pentax *ist D Pentax *ist DL Pentax *ist DL2 Pentax *ist DS Pentax *ist DS2 Pentax K10D Pentax K20D Pentax K100D Pentax K100D Super Pentax K200D Pentax K2000 Pentax K-m Pentax K-x Pentax K-7 Pentax Optio S Pentax Optio S4 Pentax Optio 33WR Pentax Optio 750Z Samsung GX-1S Samsung GX-10 Samsung S85 Samsung S850 Sigma SD9 Sigma SD10 Sigma SD14 Sinar 3072x2048 Sinar 4080x4080 Sinar 4080x5440 Sinar STI Sony DSC-F828 Sony DSC-R1 Sony DSC-V3 Sony DSLR-A100 Sony DSLR-A200 Sony DSLR-A300 Sony DSLR-A330 Sony DSLR-A350 Sony DSLR-A380 Sony DSLR-A550 Sony DSLR-A700 Sony DSLR-A850 Sony DSLR-A900 Sony XCD-SX910CR

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