Have you not seen/tried the FREEWARE prog http://www.irfanview.com ?

It'll read just about any format of media file, and will do basic editing as
well as display all the EXIF and you can add IPTC & comments to images...

Used it for many years now, quick and very easy to use.

See my web site for some images edited with it, and a lot of the pages are
created with it too...



- And on Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:02:22 +0000, it was spake thus in said in message Pete Lawrence :

I posted a link to a good image viewer - Picasa a couple of months
ago. After using the program for a while, although I liked it's
overall performance and style, it's ferretting through all of my
storage for images was a tad annoying.

Basically, what I wanted was a quick, easy viewer that would allow me
to inspect a JPG or TIFF (normally from my camera) quickly and easily.
Ideally it should also be able to easily display certain image EXIF
data quickly and easily (date/time, ISO, exposure, lens focal length,
etc.).

There are solutions to this but they all seem to nearly get there and
then have some irritating quirk that is just.... irritating.

Yesterday I thought I'd struck gold with a program called Fast Stone
Viewer. It's quick and easy to use. Doesn't interrogate your drives
like Picasa and does what it says on the tin basically. When viewing
an image on screen, there's a nice magnifier option that allows you to
specify the size being magnified and the zoom level, just by holding
down the left mouse button.

When you move your mouse to the left or right edge of a full screen
image, various options pop into view. More importantly, the
information that pops up at the right hand edge shows the EXIF data I
want to see... nearly! My heart sank when I realised that the shutter
speed wasn't displaying. 99% there and then falling at the last
fence. I sent an email to the author and amazingly, a couple of hours
and a sample image later, ta dah... it's fixed.

Here's a link to the program if you're interested...

http://www.faststonesoft.com/DN/FSViewerSetup.exe

There is no charge for non-commercial use too!

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