Category Archives: Computers

FastPictureViewer Codec Pack vs. Microsoft Camera Codec Pack

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Axel

If you have any interest in raw shooting you must know by now that Microsoft has (finally!) delivered its own add-in enabling support for raw formats in Windows Explorer and Photo Gallery. The first questions that come to mind are … Continue reading →

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A Step Forward in the Universal Image Metadata Quest? (A call for a New Container Format)

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Axel

The Metadata Working Group, a consortium of leading companies in the digital media industry, is working hard to establish metadata interoperability standards. The benefits of such a gigantic effort are obvious but adding metadata within existing image file formats is … Continue reading →

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Building a photography PC workstation: which processor?

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Axel

Memory accesses represent a significant bottleneck for image processing, if not the most significant, and a large CPU cache helps mitigate the issue. Continue reading →

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[PR] Add-in Enable Support for RAW Image Formats, Adobe DNG, Photoshop PSD in Windows Explorer

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Axel

Updated software extension enables Microsoft Windows Explorer to display raw photos from numerous digital cameras models as well as Adobe Photoshop documents (PSD), Adobe Digital Negatives (DNG) and images formats specific to the computer graphics industry. Continue reading →

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