Panasonic Lumix LX3
Last month my father bought a Panasonic Lumix LX3 digital photo camera. It's a really nice compact camera that shoots great looking pictures. Among its many features, it is also capable of saving pictures in RAW format instead of JPEG: unfortunately, the format used by Panasonic is RW2 and there's no official codec for 64bit operating systems.
Luckily, there is a complete codec pack that relies on the new Windows Imaging Component (WIC) system that was released with Windows Vista: the Fast Picture Viewer codec pack. The codec supports a whole bunch of RAW picture formats (including the Lumix's RW2) and since it is so well integrated with Windows, every modern application (Windows Explorer of course, but also the default picture viewer, Live Picture Gallery... and every .NET 3.5 based program) can use the codecs to load pictures.
