Based on what you wrote I think you are looking at the camera SD card and not downloaded images.
Here is how my camera card shows up:
The DCIM folder is where the camera stores the images.
Inside the DCIM folder there is a folder 100CANON
Inside that folder will be your image files.
My folder is empty now, but if I had images they would be there.
How are you downloading the images?
"I had no idea shooting these pictures raw instead of jpeg would be such a headache."
It is not a headache. It isn't even hard to do. You just need a free from Canon editing software package that will do the job seamlessly. Go to the web site and d/l DPP4 for your camera. Click me! You will have to have the serial number from the bottom of your camera.
This is without doubt the best way to get the best pictures possible. It is light years better than jpg. However, if you choose not to, I have no idea why you would, but DPP4 will simply let you do that too. You don't need to get any MS add-ons or buy any other software. Canon has provided this for free.
@Tronhard wrote:
If you are using windows 10 you can download a cr3 file conversion tool for ms. Is you do that you can see the files in a file manager preview window as well as photo viewer.
Hi. I think you may mean this product.
It doesn't convert .CR3 files but it will allow you to see the actual image and not the file icon.
@jrhoffman75 wrote:
@Tronhard wrote:
If you are using windows 10 you can download a cr3 file conversion tool for ms. Is you do that you can see the files in a file manager preview window as well as photo viewer.Hi. I think you may mean this product.
It doesn't convert .CR3 files but it will allow you to see the actual image and not the file icon.
Yes, that is what I meant. Converting CR3 files is another issue. I record images in both RAW and JPG format.
All the great and fantastic photos that you see and love go through some post editing process. It can be as easy or as difficult as you want it. Basic color balance and levels control along with a white balance adjustment are all you usually need. And, it will make a world of difference.
You ask, why not just use jpg and do the same? The big difference is how the jpg is created. First you know that a Raw file is not viewable as you have discovered. It must be converted to some other format. Raw is just that, the raw data. A simple seires of ones and zeros.
All cameras shoot Raw! No matter what you tell it to do, it shoots Raw and at full resolution. Each and every time. The big difference is when you tell it you want a jpg. The camera then decides what is good data and what is not good data. It then deletes all that info from the Raw file. Gone forever. It compresses it into a jpg at the size you selected, large, medium or small. Matter of fact whenever you simply save a jpg you lose more data. Now for another difference you never lose data from a Raw file. Edit it, ten times, save it, five times no data lose.
What this all means in a nutshell is you have way more latitide to do edits in a Raw file. And, if you choose not to edit it at all, you can do that too. Simply make a jpg out of it. Starting with a jpg in camera, you cannot go back to a Raw file!
