NEF to jpeg

Good Day Everyone,

 

My apology if I post it in a wrong place and hope I can get some advise to get my issue resolved. I use Nikon D7000 and D7100. My desktop pc runs on Window Vista (2007) and laptop on Window 8. Both pc got Lightroom 4 installed. Now I'm trying to transfer the NEF files to edit in LR but seems it not compatible. Can anyone please tell me what can I do to get this issue resolved?

 

I know my Desktop is pretty old and probably won't support but is there anything to be done for the laptop? Can i upgrade the LR or add any patches or software to get the pictures work properly in the Lightroom.

 

Many Thanks in advance for the support. Regards. Raihan.

Hi, Raihan,

 

You may like to try IrfanView, which may read your files (no personal experience), or FastStone (again no personal experience), which work well on PEF RAW files, and are both free. Or, if possible, why not save files on your Nikon in DNG format ?

 

Good luck.

 

Tony

Hi Raihan. Adobe has a free DNG converter which will take D7000 and D7100 NEF files and convert them to a DNG format that LR understands. You might need old versions to support your versions of Windows, but if you check when support for your cameras got added, there should be something. Good luck.

Another way is to download Nikon NX i (pretty sure it was free) - in the thumbnail mode highlight the image and select convert - does the trick as well.

This new forum software is pretty awful. Unfortunately you cannot show a URL in a hyperlink, it's insisting on pulling the title which is atrocious from an archival standpoint. Anyways, Adobe lists which versions of Lightroom/ACR support which cameras here:

 

helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

 

The non-gimmick-licensed version of Lightroom has been abandoned at version 6.14, but that should be enough for the D7000 and D7100. If you don't mind renting your software (we're all made of money, right?) Adobe maintains rental versions of Lightroom "Classic" and Lightroom UberGimmick. From my end, the only meaningful difference between Lightroom 4 and 6 was that 6 supported the D750 I was using for a few weeks.

 

There are plenty of free options as well. Versions of Apple's OSX released after the D7000/7100 should be able to parse NEFs just fine with the Preview app Nikon used to have free software available for download (ViewNX2?). Nikon used to have a more full featured offering which you could buy (secret file format and paid software? awesome!). Google Photos should support NEFs from your cameras.

 

There's also a variety of open source stuff that should work on Windows like GIMP (not really photo oriented, really archaic interface, but should work in a pinch), darktable (a great combination of the worst features of proprietary quality and open source support, and it's comically unstable), ufraw (both from the command line and as a GUI), RawStudio, and RawTherapee.

Edited December 5, 2018 by alex_zepeda

That vista is seriously old. Nikon ViewNX 2 should support vista, D7000 and D7100. That would keep desktop around. If the laptop has win8.1 64-bit version, maybe get lightroom 6 standalone version. Edited December 5, 2018 by hapien