Should I NOT be using Windows Photo Viewer?

[Pentoman]

I'm on a Windows 7 PC and to view photos that I've taken I stick my memory card into the machine's card reader.

Some photos need to be rotated (does a Nikon D3100 not have a rotation sensor??). When you do rotate a photo using the default Windows Photo Viewer, after you have viewed the photo it saves the rotated image back onto the memory card. Shouldn't be a problem? Well the annoying bit is that my Nikon can no longer read the newly rotated image. Very irritating. It can see the file, but says 'Cannot display this file'. My old Panasonic Lumix had the exact same problem.

So what is wrong? Why does rotating the image cause the Nikon to fail to read it? I have tried google but found nowt so far which makes me think no-one else is having this problem and so it must be fixable? I am going to try looking into file permissions.

In the meantime, I can see the slow lingering death of Microsoft Windows looming in the distance.

What's also interesting about Windows Photo Viewer is it seems to applying a lot of softening or antialiasing when you are viewing images - too much for my liking.

[Simpo Two]

Just copy them into your PC and then look at them.

[jimmy156]

Pentoman said:

What's also interesting about Windows Photo Viewer is it seems to applying a lot of softening or antialiasing when you are viewing images - too much for my liking.

When viewing images larger then the native resolution of your monitor, images look horribly soft in windows picture viewer. If you click view at actual size and then click fit screen they will appear much sharper, no idea why!

I dont use the viewer to look at my images anymore, its rubbish!

[Bebee]

I use nothing else but this, it's free and they update it from time to time, some new stuff was aded a few months ago.

http://picasa.google.co.uk/intl/en/#utm_source=en-...

[jimmy156]

Bebee said:

I use nothing else but this, it's free and they update it from time to time, some new stuff was aded a few months ago.

http://picasa.google.co.uk/intl/en/#utm_source=en-...

I also hate picassa , purely because you have to import everything into it. So once i've copied all my photo's off the camera onto my computer using the Canon software, i would then have to import them all into picassa, which involves duplicating them.

It's also a bit of a memory hog.

Useful for making collages etc though.

[doodlebug]

jimmy156 said:

I also hate picassa , purely because you have to import everything into it. So once i've copied all my photo's off the camera onto my computer using the Canon software, i would then have to import them all into picassa, which involves duplicating them.

It's also a bit of a memory hog.

Useful for making collages etc though.

Erm, you don't have to import anything into Picasa.

It scans for pictures as they are added and adds them to the viewer. The only duplication is when you edit them within Picasa and the original is saved as a backup.

[jimmy156]

doodlebug said:

jimmy156 said:

I also hate picassa , purely because you have to import everything into it. So once i've copied all my photo's off the camera onto my computer using the Canon software, i would then have to import them all into picassa, which involves duplicating them.

It's also a bit of a memory hog.

Useful for making collages etc though.

Erm, you don't have to import anything into Picasa.

It scans for pictures as they are added and adds them to the viewer. The only duplication is when you edit them within Picasa and the original is saved as a backup.

Really, well i must have been using it wrong then . I just find it a PITA, some people seem to love it though so maybe its just me.

[andy-xr]

Irfanview used to be my previewer for RAW files before import when I had Windows. The only problem (though it might be a blessing) was that it wasn't colour managed, so anything in ProPhoto for example was a bit wonky. It doesn't mess around with the rotation, but you might want to check you have auto rotate or rotate tall switched on in the camera menu