Displaying NEF thumbnails in Windows 7 64 bit

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Has anyone worked out how to show NEF thumbnails in Windows 7 64 bit?

Google showed me a 3rd party plugin for sale that will render thumbnails but surely there must be a better way?

On my old XP machine, NEF thumbnails just displayed, not so with my new computer.

[jcon]

Havent fully checked this out yet myself, but have a try at this...

http://www.nikonimglib.com/nefcodec/

[K1W1]

I'm surprised that there isn't something available from Microsoft.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

No luck but thanks for trying Jcon. - that's the 32 bit solution.

If there is K1W1 then I can't find it.

[K1W1]

Fast Picture Viewer Codec pack

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Yep that's the link I found K1W1 for the paid solution. I was just struggling to believe I had to pay money for a 3rd party solution when I own Nikon legit software and camera.

Thanks for trying.

[K1W1]

Presumably you pay for MS Word when Windows comes standard with a text editor.

It looks to me like it's well worth the $15, way better than waiting for Nikon to produce software that will be buggy and cause crashes. Every piece of software I have seen from them so far has been way less than impressive.

BTW have you tried Irfanview? They claim it works under Windows 64-bit and it does support .NEF files and it's free.

[photowerkz]

Irfanview works like a charm to view NEF files, even on 64-bit (but doesn't show thumbnail previews) And the fast picture viewer codec pack is well worth the money: I got it installed on my win7 64bit and it works like a charm. I can view NEF preview thumbnails like with everything else. And 15 dollars is less than I pay for a pizza so... Fantastic value.

[XaiLo]

DPR, I use Fastone Image Viewer to view thumbnails and for quik sorting and deleting. It also let's me view .psd files, it's light and fast.

http://www.faststone.org/

Lightroom is my go to when it's basically a controled or same light quality group situation for batch processing. And PhotoShop when the lightwieght can't handle the job.

[Thronsen]

I use Fast Picture Viewer, linked above.

In the past the codec pack, as well as the basic viewer, used to be free.

I think its worth it. Its very clean software.

One thing though. It gave me a price in my credit card currency (NZD). I paid. When the charge showed up, it was like 50 cents more. Stuff like that really pisses me off, even if it is only a small amount. I complained, and got very little traction (take it up with our 3rd party provider, who then didnt respond).

Thats my experience. Hope it helps.