opening RAW picture files

aussie bongo wrote:

can anyone please help with me with this.
i am taking the pictures with a NIKON D50,
how do i open the RAW files.

You need photoshop CS or newer and a new-ish ACR (adobe camera raw) plugin. There are other programs as well.

"Paul Furman" wrote in message

aussie bongo wrote:

can anyone please help with me with this.
i am taking the pictures with a NIKON D50,
how do i open the RAW files.

You need photoshop CS or newer and a new-ish ACR (adobe camera raw) plugin. There are other programs as well.

thank you paul 🙂
i am using paintshop cs,

i will have to lookout for the/a plugin

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:46:38 GMT, "aussie bongo" wrote:

can anyone please help with me with this.
i am taking the pictures with a NIKON D50,
how do i open the RAW files.

Here is the adobe page for the plugin updates.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=3 9&platform=Windows

The trouble is, I don’t know if CS supports the D50. Adobe in their wisdom, stopped support for CS as soon as CS2 was released so you may have to update to get the D50 support

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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:46:38 GMT, "aussie bongo" wrote:

can anyone please help with me with this.
i am taking the pictures with a NIKON D50,
how do i open the RAW files.

Here is the adobe page for the plugin updates.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=3 9&platform=

Windows

The trouble is, I don’t know if CS supports the D50. Adobe in their wisdom, stopped support for CS as soon as CS2 was released so you may have to update to get the D50 support

Just thinking here – has anybody tried installing the latest ARC plug-in into CS? Since I don’t have CS up and running on any machines, I can’t put it to the test. Probably will just crash and burn, but one never knows.

Hunt

PS I can see Adobe’s point more than Nikon’s for changing the RAW profiles with each new camera. Suppose that they just made it better.

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On 27 Mar 2006 23:56:43 GMT, (Hunt) wrote:

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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:46:38 GMT, "aussie bongo" wrote:

can anyone please help with me with this.
i am taking the pictures with a NIKON D50,
how do i open the RAW files.

Here is the adobe page for the plugin updates.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=3 9&platform=

Windows

The trouble is, I don’t know if CS supports the D50. Adobe in their wisdom, stopped support for CS as soon as CS2 was released so you may have to update to get the D50 support

Just thinking here – has anybody tried installing the latest ARC plug-in into CS? Since I don’t have CS up and running on any machines, I can’t put it to the test. Probably will just crash and burn, but one never knows.
Hunt

PS I can see Adobe’s point more than Nikon’s for changing the RAW profiles with each new camera. Suppose that they just made it better.

Like you, I thought that it was strange for the camera manufacturer to change the RAW file format for each camera, but apparently there is more to it. I believe every manufacturer is the same. e.g. Fuji S5000, S9000 and S2 are entirely different beasts. Same with Canon.

Maybe someone can explain why.

Raw Shooter Essentials (available FREE from www.pixmantic.com supports the Nikon D50. It is a stand-alone program, but the price is right. I have used it with my D70 files and it works quite well, although I usually use Adobe Camera Raw with CS2 because it is more convenient. RSE makes certain adjustments easier than Camera Raw so I still use it at times.

Easiest solution is to convert the files to Adobe DNG format using their free converter, and then open with any recent version of ACR.

"aussie bongo" wrote in message

can anyone please help with me with this.
i am taking the pictures with a NIKON D50,
how do i open the RAW files.

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C J Southern wrote:

Easiest solution is to convert the files to Adobe DNG format using their free converter, and then open with any recent version of ACR.

[snip]

Correct. The original poster can use the 3.3 DNG Converter (or even
3.2), to convert D50 NEFs to DNGs. Then ACR 2.4 under Photoshop CS will
open those DNGs.

(Those are the correct version numbers).

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Barry Pearson
http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/
http://www.birdsandanimals.info/

Barry Pearson wrote:

C J Southern wrote:

Easiest solution is to convert the files to Adobe DNG format using their free converter, and then open with any recent version of ACR.

[snip]

Correct. The original poster can use the 3.3 DNG Converter (or even
3.2), to convert D50 NEFs to DNGs. Then ACR 2.4 under Photoshop CS will
open those DNGs.

(Those are the correct version numbers).

I tried downloading the latest DNG converter but it comes with the full ACR install. I wanted to open a D200 NEF and my older DNG converter converted it but ACR wouldn’t open it in PS CS1. Am I reading your version numbers right that an even older ACR is able to open these? I think I’ve got 3.something for both ACR & DNG converter.

Paul Furman wrote:

Barry Pearson wrote:

[snip]

Correct. The original poster can use the 3.3 DNG Converter (or even
3.2), to convert D50 NEFs to DNGs. Then ACR 2.4 under Photoshop CS will
open those DNGs.

(Those are the correct version numbers).

[snip]

Am I reading your
version numbers right that an even older ACR is able to open these?

[snip]

I said "Those are the correct version numbers" in the hope that further discussion would be unnecessary!

—
Barry Pearson
http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/
http://www.birdsandanimals.info/

aussie bongo wrote:

can anyone please help with me with this.
i am taking the pictures with a NIKON D50,
how do i open the RAW files.

Jo,

Download Raw Shooter Essentials at http://www.pixmantec.com/

regards,

Lex