Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Can't speak for the NEF files, but it works fine with Olympus (and LEica DNG) I got LR because aperture and iView could not handle DNG and i view lost the ability to handle raw Olyp format somehow (bought out by MS was my suspicion). As you say, its a very fast moving target. Good luck --- dlridings@gmail.com wrote: From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] RAW archiving AND Lightroom Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:45:10 +0100 Well ... I figured out my LightRoom problem. I had saved my files in the archive that Lightroom works with directly. This time I didn't let Lightroom convert them to DNG files. I've always felt a bit suspicious about DNG files. Ok ... their documented. Ok ... NEF files, by implication, are not documented. And ... I am supposed to believe that Adobe can extract all possible information (lossless conversion) from NEF to DNG when NEF is not documented? Come on now. That's marketing by Adobe, not a question of documentation or not. Anyway. If you use Adobe's Lightroom you simply have to convert to their format. I re-installed LIghtroom with the repair option. I rebooted. I uninstalled LIghtroom completely. All to no avail. Lightroom was freezing everytime I tried to go near the Slideshow or Web tabs and most of the times when I tried to go from Library to Develop. So I renamed my archive where all of the NEF files were and forced Lightroom to start from scratch. I re-imported everything and allowed Lightroom to convert from NEF to DNG. This time everything works. Adobe Lightroom can, as it seems, not work with Nikon raw files. It wants to convert (and lose information) to its own DNG format. Then it works. Digital photography is not a mature working tool, it is a moving target. Daniel On Dec 9, 2007 9:43 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand@gmail.com> wrote: > Surely Adobe is trying to pull a Microsoft on us? Surely Nikon & Canon have > less incentive to do so? > Cheers > Jayanand > > > On Dec 9, 2007 12:51 PM, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > > > DNG is documented. > > > > > > > Whyconvert to DNG? Keep the RAW files and a couple of copies of the > > > converter software of choice backed up in removable hard drives.. I > > presume > > > that Nikon and Canon will at least survive as long as Adobe - I also > > trust > > > them far more than I trust Adobe in all this. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information