[juusan]

I have a DVD full of NEF files (Nikon's propietery RAW image file) that I need to change into a format that I can edit in photoshop. Nikon wants to charge me some crazy amount of money for Nikon Capture (which is interesting because the package doesn't come with a Nikon digital SLR either), and I've found two other apps that will convert the images: qimage and bibble. unfortunately, they're for windows.

iphoto will open the files, but they seem to be converted to a tiff file that's only 160px X 120 px. not useful.

can anyone here point me towards an os x application that will convert these NEFs into full size jpgs, tiffs, or something similar?

[philm]

Looks like GraphicConverter will open 'Nikon D1 NEF' files. Not tried it, but presumably you could use it to convert to JPEGs, TIFFs, etc.

[PEHowland]

Originally posted by juusan:
I have a DVD full of NEF files (Nikon's propietery RAW image file) that I need to change into a format that I can edit in photoshop. Nikon wants to charge me some crazy amount of money for Nikon Capture (which is interesting because the package doesn't come with a Nikon digital SLR either), and I've found two other apps that will convert the images: qimage and bibble. unfortunately, they're for windows.

iphoto will open the files, but they seem to be converted to a tiff file that's only 160px X 120 px. not useful.

can anyone here point me towards an os x application that will convert these NEFs into full size jpgs, tiffs, or something similar?

Photoshop CS ships with a free raw image convertor called Camera Raw - see http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html. This is as good as the Nikon Capture editor. However, Nikon's free Nikon View software also includes a basic RAW convertor plugin for Photoshop. It doesn't offer the fine control over editing but is perfectly acceptable - see http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin...MQ**&p_li=