OK, foolishly, I'll bite. Name one operation applicable only to NEF format in
Photoshop, save the labor of converting to a stable .tif or .png or .jpg. NEF
is not fixed, but a shifting proprietary Nikon file format that even Nikon
doesn't support universally. (The obverse of your Irfanview is
> The second problem is that Windows XP does not have a link to open
> Irfanview when a NEF file is double-clicked in a Windows file list.
> Clicking on a NEF file transfers to a browser pointed at Microsoft which
> says that the file type is unknown. I haven't worked yet to see if I
> can associa
I was premature in thinking that Irfanview couldn't view NEF files with
the latest plugin package. The problem is that when opening a file in
Irfanview, the default file type "Common Graphic Files" and "All Graphic
Files" in the file type drop-down menu doesn't display either NEF or RAW
files
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On Apr 13, 2010, at 12:24 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps Mr. Parish is going to bop you in the nose for such a
response.
The report is rich with useful information, but you have to read it.
What a hardship!
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Should have added that I suspect the impulse toward "raw" and "NEF" comes
mostly from those of us who came to photography in the film era. We remember
that stepping up filmstock quality led to greater adjacency, overall sharpness,
evenness of gradation. "raw" does not answer that quest in digi
Robert, I recommend you read this article by Ken Rockwell - indeed, anyone
attempting to use NEF files ought to be aware that Nikon, in all its wisdom,
does not have only one universal NEF file format, but several. And older ones
are not necessarily readable by newer software. Without getting
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Robert Carroll
wrote:
> I want to be able to view the "NEF" files that are stored on my PC.
> According to Irfanview, there is a plugin for NEF files (these are similar
> to RAW files), but I downloaded the plugin executable from the Irfanview web
> site and, aft
