50D raw thumbnail viewer

Is there a RAW thumbnail viewer to allow you to see 50D RAW thumbs in windows?

Didn't say waht sort of computer OS, but perhaps the camera raw codec file from the Canon site?

Canon USA

The Canon RAW Codec worked for my 40D on my Vista Laptop, but I can't get it to work on my Windows XP computer.

Its on my windows XP laptop for now....just awaiting on a new machine with vista in about a month

EDIT: Just tried the codec with no success

windows live gallery works on XP if you have the codec installed (with raw files from my 50D)

If I go to my computer, and look at the Raw files on my 50D they show thumbnails. If I copy them, then try to view those same pics from my actual hard drive it wont show thumbnails. Strange, but I use the Canon DPP software all the time, so it doesnt bother me.

PICASA and the associated Picasa Photo Viewer allow to view the raw files (at least Canon's).
It's interpretation (display) of the RAW files is always darker than it's interpretation of the same file in JPEG though.
Now if you use Light Room you will be able to see the RAW files in thumbnails but also to compare them far more easily than with PICASA (the PICASA viewer does not have a tool to compare 2 files side by side for example, comparing pics in Picasa is really a pain in the butt IMO).

How about Canon's zoombrowser that comes free with your camera, not only can you view the RAW thumbnail's but you can view them full screen before conversion - I use this for my initial cull.

Why not give faststone image viewer a try. Is not just a viewer. You can do a lot of other useful actions with it, and it's free!

www.faststone.org

Medic1 wrote in post #8135413
Is there a RAW thumbnail viewer to allow you to see 50D RAW thumbs in windows?

are they CR2's? I bought this to use with 1DIII files - http://www.ardfry.com/​cr2-codec/?src=dlg

for $30 it saves having to open another package to view stuff...

joeseph wrote in post #8137102
are they CR2's? I bought this to use with 1DIII files - http://www.ardfry.com/​cr2-codec/?src=dlg

for $30 it saves having to open another package to view stuff...

I got it as well

Use FastStone image viewer, it is THE best and it is free, I just wish there was a mac ver.

tunin wrote in post #8138109
Use FastStone image viewer, it is THE best and it is free, I just wish there was a mac ver.

Man, I just tried it and it's amazing! I had not even heard that name, ever!
Beats the holy crap out of Picasa!
Thanks for the tip.
Gerard

I downloaded it but haven't installed it yet. I will give it a go tomorrow and see how it works!

Thanks

It is simply awesome, I've been using it for a few years now... double click, it opens in fullscreen mode (or different if you set it different), move your mouse cursor to the right you get the EXIF and all the other stuff... move the cursor to the top... you get the browser strip... it opens pretty much everything incl. cr2, other raw, and all the other standard and non standard formats... I click the letter "E" and it opens the image in PS or you can set it to whatever...