I think due to the nature and size of the RAW data files, no matter what software you use to view thumbnails is going to take a considerable amount of time to read and convert them. This is why RAW+JPEG may be a good practice when shooting, use the jpegs just for fast browsing. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thibouille Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:00 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Windows shell extension to view thumbnails from PEFs On my system it seems to freeze for a couple seconds when updating thumbnails. Annoying but a very welcome software, for sure. 2007/3/17, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > There's a post in the dpreview forums linking to a web page > > > http://www.idfoxx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18662&sid=6bbf1ecbb3a940a7 > 90f1363fecfe0730 > > announcing a Windows Shell Extension that lets the standard Windows > file browser know how to extract thumbnails from .PEFs (and from a > plethora of other file types, including DNGs). > > If you would like to see thumbnails from your Pentax RAW files it > might be worth giving this a try. I haven't tried it myself yet, but > there are several favourable reviews in the discussion thread at the > above link. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
