lwg Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I updated to OS X 10.5.2 today and now the OS can read my D300 raw files. This allows iView to also read the files. So now I can stop converting to DNG to browse and catalog my files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photo5 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 What do you mean by "read" D300 NEF files? I've been using CS3 and NX to open and convert my NEF files. I don't know what you mean by "read" the files by the OS. Do you mean double-clicking on the NEF file and opening it in Preview? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_j1 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Dave - sounds like that. If it is, I'm excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeranger Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Right. Until now, Leopard couldn't preview D300 NEFs or display them as thumbnails. Apple Aperture users have been needing this for a long time, as Aperture has been effectively incompatible with D300 and D3 NEFs. And there are <a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1389179&tstart=0">still some complications</a>. For those of us running NX, Lightroom, CS3 etc this isn't such a big deal, but still helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris hughes Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hmmm. You sure about that? Leopard was able to show thumbnails of all my D300 NEF files before the 10.5.2 update. Now, if iPhoto would read them, all would be well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_dalrymple1 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Remember that NEF files have an embedded jpeg. That's probably what was being shown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeranger Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Well then, I'm not sure about that... It didn't work for me or other folks in my little crew until the .2 update, but apparently there's more to it. Were you running a an OS update seed, by chance? I just tried importing a D300 NEF into iPhoto and it worked, but I installed an iLife update earlier today. I don't know if this success is due to the iLife update or not, but if you don't already have the update on board it's probably worth checking out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rarmstrong Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Has Apple announced anything about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rarmstrong Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I just checked the Apple web site and the Aperture 2 release lists the D3 and D300 as RAW supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dks Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I downloaded and purchased Aperture 2.0 (just as my Lightroom trial expired!) and imported RAW D300 files. Very impressed with RAW conversion 2.0. Aperture also has a drop-down menu for RAW 1.1 and 1.0, so what was imported as RAW prior to 2.0 looks the same (though you can migrate images to RAW 2.0). Just begining to use Aperture 2.0, but my observations: -Fast, much faster than 1.5.6, I have't seen the spining beachball yet, tested with a project having 280 RAW D300 shots and adjusting them -I like the preview mode, scrollig through images is real fast, just hit "P" key to toggle between preview (JPG) and RAW. -Simple UI, clean, uncluttered, for me, I like this, I seem to wrok extremely efficient in AP so I can get back outside -Yes, off a menu there is a Plugin > menu item, nothing there yet, but soon... Note that AP 2.0 supports D3/D300 in OSX 10.4.11 too, not only in Leopard. I have 10.4.11 on a G5 dual 2.0, 8GB RAM, 30" and 20" displays, running smooth so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rarmstrong Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Darrell, Thanks for the information. This is very good to hear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lwg Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 Yes, I was referring to the OS being able to preview the files. I've been able to use Photoshop and Capture NX to view the files, but not preview. More important to me is the fact that iView Expression Media uses the OS libraries to generate its previews and thumbnails. This now works on OS X. It's interesting that Chris was able to see any thumbnail at all. On my systems I wasn't for D300 raw files. Sounds like the new version of Aperture is another way to get this feature on older versions of OS-X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hersonrivera Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I just use quick look to view my files. It works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_ellis1 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I just did it too. My iView also works now with the D300 NEFs. Anyone know if we will be able to get it to work with OS 10.4.11? I'm keeping the laptop on 10.4 until Nikon is ready for LEOPARD as I need to shoot tethered to the laptop sometimes. Don't want to mess that up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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