I can't say for the 5700 but I belive Nikon, for a period of time,
decided it would "proprietorise" its RAW format - encrypting it so
that you couldn't use 3rd party RAW converters - only their $200'ish
"Nikon Capture" program - a chronically short sighted move by
anyone's reckoning.
I don't know if they ever ended up allowing third party developers to
access those NEF's but I've got a friend who owns several Nikons
and for one of them he simply can't use anything other than Nikon'$
"Nikon Capture" program
I have a Nikon Coolpix 5700 which shoots in the Nikon RAW format
.NEF. I believe that the .NEF files produced by this camera and
others of its vintage are different from .NEF or .RAW files from
later Nikon cameras.
iPhoto will not recognise this format, nor will it recognise .dng to
which these files can be converted while retaining the raw data.
Recognise is the wrong word to use here, it recognises the files and
tries to read them then subsequently comes up with an error message.
Photoshop and all the Adobe products are happy with my .NEF raw
files.
Is there a way to doctor or convert these so that iPhoto can
recognise them? Aperture has the same list of recognisable RAW
files as iPhoto.
I like to use iPhoto to store and catalog all my photos and in a RAW
format would be ideal. Currently I have to preprocess them for
iPhoto and return to the RAW data source later, a duplication of
storage apart from anything else.
Severin Crisp
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