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FastRawViewer 1.4

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See What's new and changed below

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for Mac OS X/macOS (10.6-10.14)

for Windows 7 - Windows 10

For Windows XP (SP3) - Windows Vista

User Manual

FastRawViewer User Manual

There is a single FastRawViewer Manual (in pdf format) for both Windows and Mac OS X versions (the manual comes with the installation, too).

Quick-Start Resources

Use this to acclimate yourself to the interface, tools (RAW histogram and statistics, over- and underexposure indication, focus peaking, exposure correction, white balance, ratings, labels, titles, descriptions etc), Preferences, file handling and navigation, and get an idea as to how to customize the FRV setup for your preferred workflow.

Quick Start Tips

(in .pdf format)

A Quick Start Tour video to help one start comfortably using FastRawViewer immediately after the very first launch.

Workflow Tutorial

Below are several resources that can be used to acquaint oneself with the RAW workflow that we have developed, integrating FastRawViewer into a process that starts at the memory card and goes up to the RAW converter.

They can also help one recognize and analyze operator errors so as to improve shooting discipline.

A flowchart of the suggested RAW-based workflow (in .pdf format).

A video Tutorial of the complete RAW-based workflow.

A transcript of the video Tutorial (in .pdf format), with images.

System Requirements

for Mac OS X

FastRawViewer for Mac OS X requires any Intel-based Mac (excluding very old 2005-2006 models based on 32-bit CPUs:  Core Duo and Core Solo) with Mac OS X 10.6+ installed. We recommend a video card with OpenGL 2.1 support (that's every native Mac video card that works with OS X 10.6). An OpenGL emulator will be used if such a video card is not present in the system; some of the advanced features of FastRawViewer will take significant time to render without hardware support for OpenGL.

for Windows

FastRawViewer for Windows requires a computer with SSE3-compatible CPU (that is, manufactured after 2004) and not-so-ancient video card. It works on a variety of 32/64 bit Windows platforms: XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1,10 (we suggest Windows 8.1/64-bit or Windows 10/64-bit).

FastRawViewer for Windows uses hardware graphics acceleration:

  • Graphics based on Microsoft DirectX: DirectX 9.0 is required, DirectX 9.0c support or later is recommended
  • Graphics based on OpenGL - requires a video card with at least OpenGL 2.1 support.

If Your Browsing Speed is Low,

or You are Experiencing Graphics Issues

If you are experiencing sluggish behavior, or any graphic issues, updating video drivers may be very helpful. In fact, we suggest to keep your video drivers up-to-date in any case.

Some links to help detecting which card you have in your system:

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.11

New features

  • Faster thumbnail reading, especially on slow media/WiFi
  • Run program/Pass image in main menu/context menus has been reworked
  • (Windows only) New Preferences setting: Interface - Set the main menubar colors to match the main window.
  • New setting: Folders panel - gear menu - Show horizontal scrollbar
  • (Windows only) A warning is issued if 'pass image to external program' requires privilege escalation.

Bugs fixed

  • WB presets handling for some Canon cameras was broken (5DmkIII and 5DmkIV were affected)
  • Lens ID data was incorrectly parsed for some camera/lens combinations.
  • EXIF data display above thumbnails was positioned incorrectly for large thumbnail sizes.
  • Grid/Filmstrip text font size was selected incorrectly on large thumbnial size decrease (e.g. 800 pix - 200pix).

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.10

Camera support

  • Fujifilm XF10, X-T3, GFX 50R, DBP680
  • Gitup G3 duo
  • Nikon Z7, Z6, P1000, D3500
  • Old Leaf cameras with RGB TIFF output (Cantare, DCB2, Volare)
  • Panasonic LX100-II
  • Sony HX99

New features

  • New 'reset image rendering to defaults' action/hotkey.
  • It is possible now to clean recently used lists (files, visited folders, copy/move targets).
  • The search for external editors (known to FastRawViewer) has been revised.
  • More flexible control for files copied/moved with given file type.
  • Zoom in/out limits are now customizable.

Bugs fixed

  • When copying multiple files set (e.g. RAW+JPG+XMP) with verify after copy turned on, only checksum for RAW file was checked.
  • Some combinations of Background Gray Level and Selected files background settings resulted in wrong selected file background and/or invisible EXIF data string.

See detailed changes list in our developer blog post.

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.9

Camera support

  • Leica M10-P
  • Sony RX100-V-A

Minor changes

  • When using global Rejected folder, the name of the folder is displayed in the "Move to Rejected" confirmation dialog.
  • New hidden setting ForceWindowSizeRestore: if set (via script), then main window size and position will restore from setting for the second time after main window made visible.
  • New hiddend setting DNGDefaultCrop: if set (via script UseDNGDefaultCrop), FastRawViewer will apply DefaultCropOrigin/DefaultCropSize tags to DNG files. Default is off.

Bugs fixed

  • Standard selection mode: current image was reset on window focus change
  • When using the global Rejected folder, the name of the local subfolder was displayed in the settings instead.
  • Fixed a bug in processing Minolta (MRW) and Sony's oldest cameras (A100 ARW) files, which did not allow to display these files.

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.8

Minor changes

  • EXIF Display: "File Modified" date is now displayed using system default (short date) locale
  • Edit date range dialog (Sort/Filter panel): OK is now 'default button', and it is applied by Enter key

Bugs fixed

  • Mac: fixed problem with Fujifilm cameras 'out of memory' error
  • Edit date range dialog (in Sort/Filter panel): Incorrect date range status was not updated when 'to' date was changed
  • Files stats count was not updated if edited date range selects zero files.

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.7

  • New JPEG handling modes (both embedded in RAW and JPG files), resulting in ~2x sequential RAW files browsing speed-up
  • Processing of RAW data on GPU (videocard): better demosaic, faster editing.
  • Interface drawing speed-up
  • Lot of minor changes
  • Lot of minor bugfixes
  • Camera support: Fujifilm X-T100, Pentax K1-II, Sony DSC-RX100VI

See detailed changes list in our developer blog post.

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.6

  • Quick copy-move to subfolder feature
  • Read-only/locked files support
  • lot of minor additional features, several bugs fixed

See detailed changes list in our developer blog post.

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.5

  • Two minor features/preferences settings to ease Load selection from file
  • Several minor bugs fixed

See detailed changes list in our developer blog post.

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.4

New features

  • Combining the 'Single File' and 'Batch' keys
  • New XMP Labels options added
  • New Zoom options added
  • Batch IPTC/XMP Title/Description editing
  • Skipping several files using a single keystroke
  • Menu - File rearranged and Reference dialog reworked

Camera support

  • Canon EOS M100, G1 X Mark III
  • Fujifilm X-E3
  • Nikon D850
  • Olympus E-M10 mk III
  • Panasonic DC-G9 (standard resolution RAWs only, high-res mode is not supported yet)
  • PhaseOne IQ3 100Mp Trichromatic
  • Sony RX10-IV, RX0, A7R III

See detailed changes list in our developer blog post.

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.3

New features

  • Hotkeys/Menu actions to reload current opened file/current folder.
  • More flexible handling of 'Write XMP blocks into JPEGs'

Camera support

  • Canon 6D Mark II, 200D
  • Fujifilm X-A10, Updated color profile for Fujifilm X-A3
  • Gitup GIT2P
  • Leica TL2
  • Nikon D7500

Bugfixes

  • Adobe-formatted contrast setting was recorded to XMP files only if the exposure setting was also changed.
  • External JPEGs were not being used as thumbnails (for files that don't have an embedded preview) even if the corresponding setting was turned on.

See detailed changes list in our developer blog post.

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.2

New features

  • Custom zoom value (in the range form 10 to 1000%)
  • Keyboard combinations for easy access to Folders / Favorite Folders / Filmstrip / Grid panels

Camera support

  • Olympus TG-5
  • Panasonic TZ90 (preliminary support)

Bugfixes

  • Some atavisms from version 1.3 were removed
  • Some interface reactions to changing sorting order were corrected.

See detailed changes list in our developer blog post.

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4.1

  • Bug fixed: exposure/WB adjustment made to file was not shown if you return to this file in same session (XMP was recorded OK, but not refreshed within FRV).

What's new in FastRawViewer 1.4

  • The sorting and filtration of files in folders has been massively overhauled;
    • File filtering:
      • by XMP Rating and Label
      • by EXIF Date (shot date)
      • by Filename (mask, substring, regular expression)
      • by file selection state.
    • Save, Cancel and Restore filters
    • File sorting
      • by Filename (naturally or alphanumerically)
      • by File type (extension)
      • by File modification time
      • by File size
      • by Shooting date (EXIF Timestamp)
      • by XMP rating
  • Touchscreen support
  • Over- and Underexposure display has been improved and refined
    • Detecting clipping point for overexposure zones display depending on camera's Make and Model (not available for all cameras)
    • Adjusting underexposure limit detection based on camera ISO setting
  • Improved synchronization of XMP changes between ACR/Lr and FRV
  • Option to verify data after file copy
  • Folder tree editing
    • Create subfolder
    • Rename folder
    • Delete folder
  • Drag-drop into the folder tree (including Favorite folders):
    • Copy or Move modes
  • Drag-drop files into other applications
  • Selecting the position (below or above thumbnails) and detail of the EXIF data to be displayed in Grid mode
    • Abridged exposure data (shutter speed and aperture)
    • More complete data (shutter speed, aperture, ISO, exposure correction)
    • Date & Time (from the EXIF data)
    • Camera name

See detailed description of new features in our blog post FastRawViewer 1.4 Release

Camera support

  • Canon EOS 77D, 800D
  • Sony A9
  • Better support for Leaf Credo cameras

Bugs fixed

  • When the program was started with the histogram panel switched off, the window for the histogram had the wrong size at the first display.
  • Mac: retina detection code changed. Retina now detected on start (properly!) and on monitor connect/disconnect.
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