Viewing Raw Images As A Slideshow, Can It Be Done?

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Hi,

I took some shots as Raw files and was wondering if there was a way of viewing them as a slideshow? The only way that I could achieve this was to convert all the files to JPEG images.
Can anyone advise how RAW files can be viewed as a slideshow?

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Faststone Image viewer will do it :)
 
Hi Ya,
Lightroom is of course the best software for creating slideshows from raw files.
 
Hi,

Thanks alot guys, I will try out your suggestions. Cannot believe how quick people have answered.

Thanks agian
 
On OS X you should have native support in the finder, in Windows you may need to download a raw codec/install it from the disc that came with your camera.
 
But just to clarify ... whilst all of these programs will take your RAW files as inputs and give you a slideshow as an output, in no case are you actually viewing the RAW files.

What you've asked for is analagous to having a slide show of photos taken on print film, before the film has been developed.

So what's going on behind the scenes is that eac of these programs is taking your RAW file and converting it to something which you can look at. The reason this is relevant is because they have different capabilities when it comes to converting the RAW files. At one extreme Lightroom is very sophisticated and you can have great control over the RAW-to-visible conversion, so the program will adjust contrast, exposure, colour balance, sharpness etc etc on as it does the conversion. At the other extreme, using OS X or Windows to do the conversion gives you no control whatsoever.
 
For normal viewing, IrfanView (for Windows) gives the option of displaying the embedded JPEG, which is much faster than rendering images with the dcraw component.

I tried a fast slideshow setting on some RAW files and IrfanView is using the embedded JPEGs, whichever option is selected.
 
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