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Old January 23rd 05, 09:51 AM
Ken Tough
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Default Software for D70 NEF processing


What I would like, ideally, is a slimline program that will open
a NEF file, let me adjust saturation of the red/green/blue channels,
contrast and white balance, crop and save as JPG. I don't want my
images organized for me, or any auto-corrections.

From what I've seen, PictureProject isn't worth loading for me.

Is NikonView any better? Looks to me like it's just a previous
version of PictureProject. Do I need NikonCapture? What about
IrfanView, I've heard good things there but can I change the
parts I want to change? What's the most basic PhotoShop I'd need,
if I had to go that way?


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Old January 23rd 05, 04:33 PM
Joe Makowiec
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On 23 Jan 2005 in rec.photo.digital.slr-systems, Ken Tough wrote:

What I would like, ideally, is a slimline program that will open
a NEF file, let me adjust saturation of the red/green/blue channels,
contrast and white balance, crop and save as JPG. I don't want my
images organized for me, or any auto-corrections.


IrfanView will do some of that http://irfanview.com/ It's free; while it
will do some editing, the level of control it gives you isn't great.

TheGIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) doesn't meet your lightweight criterion,
but does everything else you want, and it's also free. You'll also need
a plugin, something that uses dcraw, in order to import the .nefs.
http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/pepe..._on_Linux.html - This
is a Linux page, but the plugins he mentions for Gimp, if you check their
pages, also have Windows versions.

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Old January 23rd 05, 06:59 PM
paul
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Joe Makowiec wrote:

IrfanView will do some of that http://irfanview.com/ It's free; while it
will do some editing, the level of control it gives you isn't great.



Irfanview doesn't read NEF's though maybe they have a newer plugin, mine
is fairly recent. It says 'invalid raw file'


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Old January 23rd 05, 08:05 PM
paul
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paul wrote:

Joe Makowiec wrote:


IrfanView will do some of that http://irfanview.com/ It's free; while
it will do some editing, the level of control it gives you isn't great.




Irfanview doesn't read NEF's though maybe they have a newer plugin, mine
is fairly recent. It says 'invalid raw file'



They do have a new plugin but it is very very slow.
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Old January 24th 05, 02:55 AM
Fred Zafran
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Just a quick note:

IrfanView will in fact read the D70 .NEF files (no plug-in required). The
files won't be visible under FILE.OPEN unless you set the "Files of type"
to "All files (*.)"

NEFs will then be visible, preview displayed and they can be opened.

IrfanView is a great program and worthy of support (my 2 cents).

Thanks.



"paul" wrote in message
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paul wrote:

Joe Makowiec wrote:


IrfanView will do some of that http://irfanview.com/ It's free; while
it will do some editing, the level of control it gives you isn't great.




Irfanview doesn't read NEF's though maybe they have a newer plugin, mine
is fairly recent. It says 'invalid raw file'



They do have a new plugin but it is very very slow.



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Old January 24th 05, 03:08 AM
paul
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I love irfanview but it is noticeably slow with Nikon D70 NEF files for
me. It took me 10 minutes to batch a dozen files on a new Dell
workstation grade laptop & about 8 seconds just to display one file. It
is indeed lightning fast in other file types as long as they are not
really big. I continue to use it as my default image association but not
with NEF's unfortunately. That means I need to keep them in special
folders (which is a good idea anyways).

I wish it could handle them better because that would be good for
batching proofs.


Fred Zafran wrote:
Just a quick note:

IrfanView will in fact read the D70 .NEF files (no plug-in required). The
files won't be visible under FILE.OPEN unless you set the "Files of type"
to "All files (*.)"

NEFs will then be visible, preview displayed and they can be opened.

IrfanView is a great program and worthy of support (my 2 cents).



They do have a new plugin but it is very very slow.

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Old January 24th 05, 06:04 AM
Sheldon
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I'd still like an opinion on NikonView for converting NEF files. I've heard
it's better than PicturePerfect and as good as that $99 program Nikon sells
(just for file conversions). I think it's a free download.


"Ken Tough" wrote in message
...

What I would like, ideally, is a slimline program that will open
a NEF file, let me adjust saturation of the red/green/blue channels,
contrast and white balance, crop and save as JPG. I don't want my
images organized for me, or any auto-corrections.

From what I've seen, PictureProject isn't worth loading for me.

Is NikonView any better? Looks to me like it's just a previous
version of PictureProject. Do I need NikonCapture? What about
IrfanView, I've heard good things there but can I change the
parts I want to change? What's the most basic PhotoShop I'd need,
if I had to go that way?


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Ken Tough



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Old January 24th 05, 03:08 PM
paul
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I think Breeze Browser can do all this very well for $60 though my trial
ran out before I knew what all to check.
http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/features.htm
It does handle color space conversion, etc. correctly & is a very fast
RAW browser with some cool features.

With Nikon View I only see a very very basic jpeg batch conversion tool.
The editor has only preset options for white balance and exposure
compensation with other options for RGB, brightness & contrast,
sharpening, auto contrast. The photoshop RAW import plugin shows the
actual white balance temperature it was shot at & a live preview slider
to adjust (versus 5 presets) and it includes a few types of noise
reduction, chromatic aberration correction, etc. The difference is big.
Even nikon capture doesn't offer much more than nikon view. Capture does
support adobe RGB vs sRGB & a bit more options than View but only
photoshop allows

Sheldon wrote:
I'd still like an opinion on NikonView for converting NEF files. I've heard
it's better than PicturePerfect and as good as that $99 program Nikon sells
(just for file conversions). I think it's a free download.


"Ken Tough" wrote in message
...

What I would like, ideally, is a slimline program that will open
a NEF file, let me adjust saturation of the red/green/blue channels,
contrast and white balance, crop and save as JPG. I don't want my
images organized for me, or any auto-corrections.

From what I've seen, PictureProject isn't worth loading for me.

Is NikonView any better? Looks to me like it's just a previous
version of PictureProject. Do I need NikonCapture? What about
IrfanView, I've heard good things there but can I change the
parts I want to change? What's the most basic PhotoShop I'd need,
if I had to go that way?


--
Ken Tough




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Old January 25th 05, 03:05 AM
Sheldon
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"Ed Ruf" wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:04:37 -0700, in rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
"Sheldon" wrote:

I'd still like an opinion on NikonView for converting NEF files. I've
heard
it's better than PicturePerfect and as good as that $99 program Nikon
sells
(just for file conversions). I think it's a free download.


I had been using NV to process NEFs from my 5700 before anyhow. I tried
PP when I got my D70 and found it's interface to be lacking, so went back
to NV. There is a limited number of variables compared to Capture in
either PP or NV. NV is a free dl, in the US you will need a valid serial
#,
be sure to get the update as well. Note that NV and PP can NOT co-exist
according to Nikon. NV will allow output to 16 bit jpg/tif, whereas IIRC
PP
is only 8-bit.
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Ed Ruf Lifetime AMA# 344007 )
See images taken with my CP-990/5700 & D70 at
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photog...ral/index.html


Are you saying that Nikon View "will" convert NEF files to TIFF files? I
just need something that will allow me to shoot NEF/RAW and then send them
on in a file anyone can open with PhotoShop.

Sheldon


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Old January 25th 05, 07:07 AM
paul
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Sheldon wrote:

I just need something that will allow me to shoot NEF/RAW
and then send them on in a file anyone can open with PhotoShop.


If you have photoshop (latest version at least) then there is an awesome
plugin for opening & adjusting NEF's. Go to adobe's web site & look for
'Camera RAW plug-in'.
 




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