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raw mode fail
hey everyone,
so i went out to drift prac last night at mallala and had a few mates out there sliding. was shooting in raw mode, some sick photos came up. went back to my mates house to try put them up. and the photos didnt come up. came back to my house and the photos start importing then at the end of the import it says the photos are unreadbale files? does anyone kno anything about this happening, or is there a way i can change the file so it is readbale?
any help with great.
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hey mate, what is the file type atm?
You need a raw converter. Something like Adobe Camera RAW in photoshop, adobe lightroom, apple aperture or even apple iphoto 09. Any one of those will convert the raw file into a readable format. A normal windows computer won't really even show a preview of a raw file unless you have windows 7 with specific drivers installed. If you use a mac you should see the preview straight away, but I'm assuming you don't.
Download free trial of adobe lightroom or ACR.
Just shoot in JPEG if you don't want to have to convert RAWs.
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Also note that raw viewer for xp plugin won't actually allow you to edit or convert your raw files to JPEGs, it will only allow you to preview the file, which is still pretty much useless unless you have a dedicated raw converter.
hey. i got a mac and im 100% sure it got iphoto 09 cause it a heaps new computer. the preview shows up then you select and import then it imports then says they are unreadable. can you change the file on iphoto? and is apple aperature like photoshop?
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Aperture is like an advanced version of iphoto for pros, don't bother if you don't know much about photography - iphoto 09 is good enough to use when you're starting out. What camera are you using and what is the file extension of the raw file? For instance a canon will make a file like 00235.CR2 and a Nikon will make one like 032958.NEF, olympus is .ORF. Gotta make sure the camera is supported in iphoto - sometimes there are obscure cameras like the sigma DSLRs that have little support.
If it's a canon or nikon DSLR and isn't reading it, chances are the files are corrupted somehow. It may be your memory card so try a different memory card in the same camera making sure to format it (in the camera) before you even take photos with it.
a nikon d3000 and yeh they come up as NEF files. so if there a way to change them to .JPEG or something. i was searching around the internet last night and found some raw file converters thats made for mac osx and nikon. do you reckon this might do the job?
Last edited by RRX-007; 8th February 2010 at 10:40 AM.
Yeah they don't yet support the d3000 in iphoto. Have to download a seperate raw converter. Get the adobe lightroom 3 beta trial and use it for the next month or 2. there's a few free ones kicking around as well. it's the only way to convert RAW files to a useable format.
Basically though, if you don't know this sort of stuff you probably shouldn't be shooting raw. Just use super fine JPEGs, with a +1 saturation, -1 contrast, +1 sharpness setting in picture control. That's my fave setting for nikons anyway. Oh, and turn off active D lighting - it just increases noise too much above iso 400
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