It's been a long time since I've tried to do anything with a raw file, NEF for Nikon. But I shot a few shots of the old homestead using the D300's quality setting at Raw plus Fine, thus a NEF file and a large jpeg. Boy, will that chew up a memory card in a hurry. (I can take 32 images on a 1 GB card on that setting!) Here's the straight jpeg:
For the life of me, I could not get Photoshop CS or Photoshop Elements 6 to read the NEF format -- gave me a parsing file error. A search on the Web described fixes beyond my motivation level (I'm really content with jpegs -- life is too short) so I took the easy way out and downloaded Adobe DNG converter, the latest version. It allows one to convert a folder of NEF images, in my case, to DNG format, Adobe's digital negative format. That format enabled me to "Open as raw" in Elements and play with the "raw deal." Don't remember exactly what I did to the image, but here it is. I'll be more methodical next time.
By the way, Nikon D300, Nikon 24mm f/2.8 lens, ISO-200, 125 sec. @ f/5.6. Love that lens!
For the life of me, I could not get Photoshop CS or Photoshop Elements 6 to read the NEF format -- gave me a parsing file error. A search on the Web described fixes beyond my motivation level (I'm really content with jpegs -- life is too short) so I took the easy way out and downloaded Adobe DNG converter, the latest version. It allows one to convert a folder of NEF images, in my case, to DNG format, Adobe's digital negative format. That format enabled me to "Open as raw" in Elements and play with the "raw deal." Don't remember exactly what I did to the image, but here it is. I'll be more methodical next time.
By the way, Nikon D300, Nikon 24mm f/2.8 lens, ISO-200, 125 sec. @ f/5.6. Love that lens!
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