Just a guess here that it might be that WMP is reducing the quality because
it is assuming you do not own the images and it must not give you a full
quality delivery of any product that you do not own. This is something that
I suspect WMP is doing for other images, such as album art, so why not your
camera images?
Dale
"Simon Cobb" <Simon
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> I'm running Vista Ultimate RTM on a high end system. I just loaded 60-odd
> JPG images taken with a Nikon D40 DSLR onto my PC and viewed them through
> WPG. Given this was a brand new camera and these were the first images I
> had
> shot, I was horrified with their quality and initially assumed my camera
> was
> faulty. The images were terribly over-saturated, unsharp and noisy. I
> then
> opened the images for editing in Microsoft Digital Image Suite. Lo and
> behold, the images are sharp and properly saturated.
>
> While I'm relieved that my camera is performing correctly, what on earth
> is
> going on with WPG to cause such appalling display characteristics?
>
> Incidentally, I saw similarly poor results when I viewed the images in the
> new Slide Show viewer.
>
> Anyone else seen similar results? Is there a fix?
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon