RML said:
From Epson there's only version 1.01 available.
I was in the end able to download the file, thankyouverymuch. I wish there was a small utility that I could fire up so I can see the images without having to start up the full PhotoRAW program. Something like a PhotoRAW viewer. Does that exist?
A lot of programs will let you see the embedded JPEG preview image (sorry, don't know which Windows ones do this, as I'm a Mac user, but I'm sure there are some out there.) However, that's not the same as seeing the actual raw image. You can't really expect to see the raw file with a small utility, because there's nothing visible until the data is decoded -- that's what PhotoRaw and various other converters do.
One handy option that makes it easy to edit a lot of raw images at once is Adobe Bridge -- it renders small previews from the raw file "on the fly" and shows you a screenful of them at once. Once you've examined them, you can crop and adjust just the good ones using the underlying power of the Adobe Camera Raw application. Unfortunately, you can only get Bridge by buying one of the Adobe Creative Suite applications such as Photoshop.
Another option from Adobe is Lightroom, currently available as a free beta. It also lets you view a whole "contact sheet" of raw images at once, then crop and adjust etc. It's got some additional features Bridge doesn't have, such as the ability to print photos (in a variety of layouts) and export web pages. This doesn't help you at the moment, since there's no Windows version available yet, but Adobe is working on one.
One thing that I know IS available in Windows is Microsoft's Raw Image Thumbnailer and Viewer
(see this link) but I don't know if it supports R-D 1 raw files. Might be worth a look, though.
