Comments on: Problems with Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) and NEF Files

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:15:32 +0000

I use a mac and downloaded this at adobie, and now the erer about activating Raw editing is gone…. if you use a pc ther is probly one on the pc side , I just downloaded and played with ray and it worked.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4621

By: Sharyn

Sharyn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:29:47 +0000

Okay I have the same problem, I have a D40 and cannot open the file in photoshop CS with ACR… how does one go about using a “hex” to change the files to D50? I am computer illiterate

By: ANDREVR

ANDREVR — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:41:09 +0000

Martin! You Sir, are a gentleman I want to kick myself for not thinking of that, but it’s fixed now, so simply, thank you very much

By: ShaolinTiger

ShaolinTiger — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:26:46 +0000

Martin: Yah a bit of hacking can save the day. Nikon has an annoying habit of making small changes from camera to camera so 3rd party software chokes.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:21:33 +0000

According to the author of DCRaw, D40 files can be openend, but the actual calibration values for the D40 colors are not included, yet. Until than the results produced by DCRAW are rather bad, a conversion using Picture Project is much better. One can use a hex editor to change the D40 to D50 in all NEF files which enables ACR and Aperture to open theses files – quality seems to be ok.

By: ShaolinTiger

ShaolinTiger — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:16:53 +0000

Andrevr: That’s interesting, the DCRaw library certainly looks interesting. I think the thing is Adobe is such a huge product, they have to do quite a lot of testing and regression testing before they release anything so their cycle is a little longer. The standard is usually the same as previous cams, but they don’t want to take the risk.

By: Andrevr

Andrevr — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:09:12 +0000

There’s more to this than meets the eye, people. I’ve heard the blurb about Nikon changes the format slightly for each new camera, to ‘encourage’ ppl to buy Nikon Capture…but I’m not so sure…There’s a piece of open source software called DCRaw, a library if you will, which other software can use to access/decode/manipulate RAW files. It gets updated every now and then, but the simple fact is that most RAW files open quite happily under DCRaw…including the D40′s NEF’s. I checked the DCRaw site and the D40 is definitely not supported yet. The author is adamant that there are only a few standard file formats, and NEF is a using one of them. So I’m not sure that the blah about file formats changing is completely true…Rawtherapee and uLead Photo Impact both use DCRaw.. and you get a MOST comprehensive suite of options for adjustment

By: ShaolinTiger

ShaolinTiger — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:14:15 +0000

John Boggs: The thing is I don’t know if Nikon actually gives the specs to Adobe at all, more like Adobe has to reverse engineer it, Nikon of course want you to use Nikon Capture, that’s why when you install picture project it hijacks Photoshop so Adobe RAW no longer works..

By: John Boggs

John Boggs — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:36:21 +0000

You would think that Nikon would have given the specs for their D40 RAW format to Adobe long before offering the camera to the public. What a dissapointment. What is the purpose of being able to capture a RAW if you can’t edit it!

By: Andrevr

Andrevr — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:06:04 +0000

That’s great. Thanks for the tut. Now we just need Adobe to wake up and create Camera Raw 3.7 to support the Nikon D40…:(