Nikon and Canon added the ability to support Vista for cameras

The newly released software upgrades from Nikon and Canon for the latest SRL cameras and some older models (from Canon) will help Windows Vista to interact with the RAW image taken in the camera.

RAW images contain more data than JPEG images and give more control (for processing) to photographers, but each type of camera and manufacturer uses different legacy formats, making support Support met many challenges.

Microsoft often relies on camera manufacturers to provide customers with "codec" software for Windows Vista and any program that can use images, process and read legacy RAW image formats. Apple, by contrast, writes its own codec and Windows XP does not have any integrated support for viewing RAW images.

Nikon's 1.1 codec version adds support for high-end D3 cameras (priced at $ 5,000 - coming soon), and the D300 ($ 1,800 - just available).

Meanwhile, Canon's new 1.2-codec version adds support for the high-end EOS-1Ds Mark III ($ 8,000 - coming soon), and EOS 40D ($ 1,300 - just present).

The software also supports some of Canon's old and SLR compact models. The codec also interacts with Windows Live Photo Gallery software on Windows XP.

Also in this batch, Canon also upgraded some other software, including image browsing applications such as ZoomBrowser EX and ImageBrowser, Digital Photo Professional tool for RAW image editing, PhotoStitch software used for photo collage, editor The Picture Style Editor file is used to adjust the image color, and the EOS Utility is used to control the camera with the computer.

Van Han