MS relies on the camera maker to support its RAW formats. Most camera makers are not supporting 64 bit software.
Vista Photo Gallery is actually a rather nice bit of software, much better than many 3rd party equivalents (Its support for IPTC tagging and Bridge/Lightroom compatible star-tagging elevates it). -Adam On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Henk Terhell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't believe JPGs would no longer be shown in Vista in near future. > But I don't care much about thumbnails as long as files can be > viewed/organized with the right software such as PS Elements, LR or > Picasa. Vista Photo Gallery disqualifies itself as a tool for this if > not able to thumbnail/ open RAW files. > > Otherwise for my use Vista 64-bit is very fast and very good. If only > Epson would release a 64-bit driver for my 2450 scanner, I could get rid > of XP. > > Henk > > William Robb schreef: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Doug Franklin" >> Subject: Re: Microsoft and Hoya Pentax join forces. >> >> >> >> >>>> I am so glad I decided not to sidegrade myself to Vista with my new >>>> computer. Whether or not >>>> there is a fight going on between Adobe or Microsoft is moot, it is still >>>> up to Microsoft to >>>> make their OS compatable with industry standard file types. Next thing, >>>> they won't be JPEG >>>> compliant because they have decided to invent their own version of a >>>> compressed image file. >>>> >>> Already done. It's called something like Windows Media Photo format. >>> It /does/ have advantages over JPEG, though I don't know how it compares >>> to JPEG-2000. For example, MS's new format supports sixteen bit color >>> components. >>> >> >> I knew about their new format, what I was inferring was all these poor Vista >> users doing an >> upgrade and discovering that their JPEGS won't thumbnail any longer. >> >> William Robb >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
