Comments on: Nikon NEF — The Secrets Of Making The Most Of Nikon RAW Files https://www.apnphotographyschool.com/post-processing/nikon-nef-the-secrets-of-making-the-most-of-nikon-raw-files/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nikon-nef-the-secrets-of-making-the-most-of-nikon-raw-files Shivanand Sharma's photography blog Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Paul Godden https://www.apnphotographyschool.com/post-processing/nikon-nef-the-secrets-of-making-the-most-of-nikon-raw-files/comment-page-1/#comment-17146 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:15:22 +0000 https://www.apnphotographyschool.com/?p=5983#comment-17146 I’ve been using NEFs for a long time – the difference in size to large jpeg’s isn’t worth worrying about, and the flexibility you get from them far offsets the storage requirements.

I found this article very interesting. I’ve been shooting in black and white quite a lot and using lightroom to do the conversion. One of the things I noticed was any photos flagged as B&W showed as black and white initially, then converted to red (due to the red filter I use). After reading what your article, it all makes perfect sense why it’s doing this. The B&W image is just a thumbnail created in the camera for the back-screen, and embedded in the NEF.

The only thing I really don’t like the idea of is using ANOTHER program to convert to tiff, then using lightroom to convert to JPG. You will lose some of the abilities of the format in lightroom, so your tweaking to the settings won’t be as powerful. It’s just a shame that Nikon don’t release this format properly so people like Adobe can adopt it correctly in their software – I’m sure they would be happy to license it from them

Granted – you could just use one of Nikon’s pieces of software – but they don’t give you the same creative control.. Ah well – rock and a hard place I guess =)

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