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Windows 10 Microsoft Camera Codec Pack Updated

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

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As part of its latest Patch Tuesday security update thatMicrosoftrelease once per month, the Redmond company has also issued anupdatefor theMicrosoftCameraCodecPack inWindows 8.1. Below are more details.

The latest Patch Tuesday for December, 2013 released byMicrosofthas brought quite a lot of updates and changes. We’ve already covered SkyDrive improvements, thenew Microsoft AntiMalware Removal tool, as well asupdateswith printing issues found with theWindows Photo Viewer tool. Now, it seems that a new updated forWindows 8.1has been made available and it covers theMicrosoftCameraCodecPack.

Thisupdateenables you to view many camera-specific file formats in various experiences in Windows. The update enables supported RAW camera files to be viewed in Windows Explorer, the built-in photoapplications, and other Windows-basedapplicationsthat use Windows Imaging Codecs.

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So, as we can see,Microsofthas updated theMicrosoftCameraCodecPack and now RAW camera files can be viewed with dedicated photoapplicationsand other Windows proprietary tools. On top of the many formats supported, now theMicrosoftCameraCodec Pack comes with support for the file formats of the following devices:

Camera software for Windows 10, 8.1 and 8

In case yourWindows 10, 8.1 or 8 PC is still not opening some image files, especially the files from differentcameramodels, you can fix this problem by following the stepsfrom this guide. It helped already thousand of our readers and it’s quite simple. If you have some specific features on yourcamera, feel free to choose other software. Here’s a quick list of handpicked software to open differentcamerafile formats:

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Radu Tyrsina

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