Originally posted by Na Horuk Microsoft viewer might not be the best choice. Try a real raw editor. FastStone (I think there is a free version, and a lot of people like it), Aperture, Aftershot Pro, Lightroom (very popular, easy to use, but costs a bit).. or even the Pentax Silkypix software that comes with the camera (I find it a little hard to use, but it works well and it comes with the camera).
Also, raw files need some touching up before they look as good as they should. Most raw editors have an automatic option, which makes the photos look a little better than the out-of-camera jpegs. And if you touch up photos yourself, you can make them look even better.
Hi thanks for the reply.
Yes indeed, I fully intend to process the RAW images properly, but I wanted to quickly scan through them to discard any I was not happy with, hoping to speed up processing.
Particularly as I somehow managed to get a fair amount of dust on the sensor and they will need a lot of touching up.
Not sure how that happened, only 2 lens changes all trip, and both indoors....
With the images being so dark they have been hard to evaluate.
FastStone hasbeen mentioned a couple of time so I will give this ago. It would be nice to know that what I am looking at is at least a reasonable representation of the image to avoid 'over processing' the final JPEG, which may then look rubbish if viewed elsewhere, such as via Flickr (not that I am very keen on Flickr anymore
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