Lightbox equivalent for NEF files

[david_tolcher]

I have just done my first weekends serious nature photography with

the D100 using RAW and have approx 100 images to review. With slides

I would do a quick sort on the light box followed by a final sort on

the projector. Shooting JPEG allowed some amount of quick preview by

running slideshow or equivalent but I am struggling for a quick

evaluation of NEFs. The pain of having to sharpen each one to see

what is in focus or not as the image is always soft out of the camera

will not be sustainable with a long shoot and several hundred

pictures to review. Has anyone got any suggestions as to how to

overcome the issue ?

 

Many thanks

 

Dave

[olivier_reichenbach]

You can use a slideshow in Nikon View, making sure the option «File information» is

checked in the option window (or you're in the «File» window), and make a note of each

keeper. Of course, it takes a while for each Nef file to be processed, but I don't think it

would take any longer than to observe a slide on a lightbox with a loupe, and then fine

tune your selection with a projector.

 

Or you can make a batch conversion of all your files, provided you want to apply the

sames settings to all of them (it'll take about 20 minutes for 100

files), and then select the keepeers with a slideshow of the resulting Tiff files.

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