I want to view ARW RAW images made with a Sony RX100 II camera. I have DPUS v11.4 and tried to install the Universal Graphics Viewer. I extracted the .dll from the zip file into the Viewer directory of the DOPUS program. I still cannot view my ARW files.
What have I done wrong or is there another way to view the ARW images?
Support for Sony RC100 II raw files will come when we update the Raw Digital Camera plugin which comes with Opus. I'm not sure when that will be but hopefully not too long.
The Universal Graphics Viewer plugin (not made by us) may also handle them if it is updated one day, but I don't know exactly what it does. "ARW" isn't really a format as all the raw formats change for each camera, so when something says it supports "Sony ARW" it really means "some ARW files produced by some Sony cameras at the time of writing".
If the Universal Graphics Viewer plugin isn't helping, I'd recommend uninstalling it to ensure that ARW is handled by the default Raw Digital Camera plugin so that you get support for those files automatically when we next update it.
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As an interim solution, for the Sony DSC-RX100-II, maybe the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack (6.3.9721.0) microsoft.com/en-us/download ... x?id=26829
may help.
Available in x86 and x64 and alledgedly supporting RX100 II.
Note: I have nót yet installed it, just went on to search for a solution.
(also, I don't know if it supports version III that I have)
Anyway, hope the Universal Graphics Viewer will be updated soon.
Maybe, whilst keeping the original .arw, you may wish to convert the files to .dng using Adobe's DNG converter? (Adobe DNG Converter 8.7.1)
Some intersting and 'persuasive' articles:
DNG vs RAW photographylife.com/dng-vs-raw
The Raw Truth About DNG mosaicarchive.com/2013/05/01 ... about-dng/
That said, I noticed an issue that sometimes DNG files may not properly preview.