Can I convert NEF from D70 without Capture?

[donald_kim_lewiston]

Hello, I am not going to purchase Capture 4.1 at this time for my

D70. Can I take NEF (RAW) and then convert it into a jpg or tiff

using pictureproject or photoshop 7?

 

Thanks,

 

Donny

[lkv]

It should work with Photoshop CS. I guess you just need an update if you want to use

Photoshop 7...<br>

Lenny<br>

<a href="http://afimage.com">AFimage.com</a>

[ilkka_nissila]

You can convert it from nikon view -> nikon editor -> photoshop 7 tiff - I'm sure there are other ways too.

[adrian_byng_clarke]

If I'm not mistaken you need to download a plugin for photoshop 7 from nikon. Nikon's NEF format is a closed proprietary format. The technology to read and write NEFs can only be borrowed with a license from Nikon.

[rjacksonphoto]

Picture Project and PS 7 will work fine without purchasing Nikon Capture. I was unable to load Picture Project until I had uninstalled NikonView 6, so I haven't used NV6 with the D70. Picture Project works fine for my CP 5000 as well.

[mfeetham]

There is a free plugin for PS7 which allows you to open NEF files. Unfortunately, since the introduction of PS CS, Adobe doesn't seem to have the PS7 plugin available for download any longer.

 

This makes the plugin very difficult to find. In fact, if anyone has a copy I could really use it. Much preferable to upgrading to CS.

[lct__]

The free NEF plugin of Nikon View should work with Photoshop

7 as well as CS AFAIK. Best, LCT

[chris_ladoulis]

As LCT mentioned, the plugin is free. It is a library included in Nikon View version 6.2.2 only. Just download from <a href="http://www.nikonusa.com">Nikon's web site</a> and enter your serial number at time of download.

[joseph_wisniewski]

Donny - you can convert NEF with picture project. Picture Project drives me up the wall, and I would suggest downloading NikonView 6.2.2 from the Nikon support site. When you install NikonView, it will hunt down yoru PhotoShop installation, and automatically install a basif NEF importer in PhotoShop, so you can use "file->open" in PhotoShop to open the NEF, just like you would any other file.

 

Lenny - When you install NikonView, it locates your PhotoShop plugins directory, and automatically installs the NEF plugin, weather you have CS, PhotoShop 7, 6, or 5, Elements, Elements 2, or LE.

 

Adrian - The NEF format was easy to decipher, and several people have written open source decoders. Dan Coffins DCRAW is the most popular.

 

Mike - The Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) plugin for PhotoShop 7 was never free, it was a $100 download. Camera Raw 2 comes free with PhotoShop CS. The Nikon NEF pluging that comes with NikonView 6, while not as versatile as ACR, is free, and can install in just about any version of PhotoShop, right back to PhotoShop 5.

 

LCT and Chris got it right.

[mvw photo]

Donny: worry no more. There is a free third party app yuou should be able to get working - see http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw for this and fo a whole host of tech information on all the RAW formats.

 

I run dcraw on my Linux box and it works a dream.

 

Michael

[darren_spurgeon]

IrfanView is a great image viewer and simple editor. It has loads of plugins, one of which reads NEF files. It's a quick and easy--and FREE--image viewer for those that may not have Photoshop.

 

http://www.irfanview.com/

 

Be sure to also download the Plugins package to get the NEF interpreter.

[alan kolnik]

After a lot of searching the various boards and Adobe and Nikon websites

without finding plug-ins for the NEF format available with the D70, I found

that there are actually plug-ins provided with PictureProject, which is a

sort of simpleminded transfer and edit application provided with the D70.

These allow PSE to open NEF files. (I have PSE 1, but I assume PSE 2 is the

same or better)

 

In the interests of helping others that have been looking for these

plug-ins, I thought I'd post the names and locations of the files. They are

in your

 

C:\Program Files\Nikon\PictureProject folder (assuming a standard install),

and are named:

 

Nikon NEF Plugin LE.8bi

and

Nikon YCC TIFF.8BI.

 

I don't know if you need both, or which is the correct or better one - I

simply copied them both into my Elements folder at C:\Program

Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Plug-Ins\Automate, and, to be on the safe

side, to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Plug-Ins.

 

PSE then opens the files, though, as I think others have noted, the EXIF

info is not available.

 

 

(a pity that such a great camera comes with such poor software, BTW - or

that you have to pay for the presumably more powerful Nikon Capture 4.1

which comes as a trial version)

 

Alan

[lloyd_zimmerman]

Yes you can. Most photo programs have free updates that will handle NEF. For example, adobe photo elements has free updates to handle NEF and other RAW programs that different manufactures use. It is a painless update,you won't feel a thing. It does everything.