Camera RAW Codecs for Windows

One of the features we added in Windows Vista was a platform to support for decoding camera raw images in Windows Photo Gallery (and later Windows Live Gallery), Windows Explorer, and Win32 & WPF applications. The camera IHV community has done a great job supporting this effort by creating codecs that enable raw files for various cameras. The Microsoft Professional Photography website just posted a page where you can download Codecs for Windows for your camera.

 Updated: a couple folks pointed out that the link I posted was broken. That is fixed now.

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• Anonymous
  January 03, 2008
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• Anonymous
  January 03, 2008
  Your link to the codecs seems to be broken.

• Anonymous
  January 04, 2008
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  January 04, 2008
  Re: x64 support. I hear you - I'm one of those people with an x64 OS at home, so I feel the pain first-hand. We're working on improving thie 64-bit support for codecs. It will be a staged process, starting with enabling more existing 32 bit code (applications and codecs) to work on x64 systems, and then getting more native x64 software as well. The first step towards this is Windows Live Photo Gallery, which is a 32-bit app, but will use 3rd party 32-bit codecs on x64 systems when they are present. We're actively working with our partners in the ecosystem to get the existing 32-bit codecs tested and distribured for use on x64 systems, as well as getting them to create native x64 codecs that leverage the larger address space. Stay tuned.