Bruce H Loc: Oregon Coast

I never learned to take "no" for an answer. there is always a way, glad you found it.

CocoaRoger Loc: Cocoa Florida

thanks

Julian Loc: Sarasota, FL

View NX2 allows you to edit, modify and save the changes to a RAW file. The changes are saved with the file itself allowing you restore the image to its original format by simply clicking on the "revert" button. I have not had any problems with .NEF files which are slightly different than other RAW formats.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Canon DPP works the same way, Bob.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

Way I understand it works is this - you make adjustments to the raw image, then NX saves the adjustments AND the original raw image. You load the image, the adjustments are loaded and applied awaiting your changes. If you want to save the adjusted image then use "Save As" either JPG or Tiff. You then have both your original raw, the "table " of adjustments that you used on it and the newly created JEG ir TIFF image

photocat Loc: Atlanta, Ga

Am I understanding correctly, that you don't make back up copies of the orginals?

I realize you feel that takes up tto much space on your hard drive, but the back ups need to be else where. In fact you have a disaster waiting to happen if you have all your images on your internal hard drive. Let alone with no back up.

rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA

It's always good to hear a catastrophy being averted.
Keep posting the problems and answers, they're better than the troubleshooting section that asks you whether the device is plugged in or not. Even if it's a tripod.

George H Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Roger,
When you save the changes made do you do it as (Save as), if you do that then the Original Raw file will not be changed. Hope this answers your question. Have a Very Merry Christmas.

George

ephraim Imperio

I just use View NX2 to view my raw nef files. And then send them to Capture NX2 for post-processing. In Capture NX2 I then save the processed file as "processed NEF Raw file" to a dedicated external hard drive. When I retrieve a processed NEF Raw file, I can see on the right hand column of the software every process I have previously done and can change, revise, or make further improvements. The trick is to save the NEF file as "processed NEF RAW File" and not as jpeg. I am not sure you can do all of these in View NX2. You will need Capture NX2 also.

JimGav

Use Lightroom and you will not have any problem.
You can always go back to the original.

Paw Paw Bill Loc: d

Raw is a set of data from the sensor. It is not a picture. Each pixel that you see in a picture is actually from 4 different sensor elements. When you view thumnails or images of the raw file, you are only seeing an image generated from the data. You can not and software can not determine exactly what the four pieces of data were that resulted in the single pixel. It is a one way street. You cannot unscramble an egg and so you can not unscramble a jpg and make it a raw or take alerations to an image and apply it to raw data.

What does happen is that the software saves the alterations you made to the image derived from the raw and reapplies that each time you load the raw file. You can 'undo' or reset any of these steps and start over again.

Also, we often say or hear and then accept phrases about pixels on the sensor. There is no such thing. A 16 meg camera for example, produces a 16 mega pixel image, but that is the software generated count. The sensor actually has to send 64 megs of data for the camera to do this. It is a 16 meg camera, not a 16 meg sensor. We can correctly say that the sensor is capable of producing 16 meg images. But no sensor has any pixels.

aammatj Loc: Zebulon, NC / Roscoe, Ill

I edit .NEF files with Capture NX2. The program keeps track of all the edits, so if I want to go back to the original, I simply turn off all the edits (very simple and quick). It's also a great program for making basic edits, but does not work well for things that require layers. You might want to consider it.

Dria Loc: Ohio

Make finding stuff easy.
Buy an external hard drive (they are pretty inexpensive)
When you download your camera to your computer-
1st go through and throw out the absolute junk (there are bound to be a few)then download all that are left onto your external hard drive.
that way if you cage something on your computer- then can't find the original- you know you have it on the external.
Plus if the computer crashes you have all your stuff backed up.

aammatj Loc: Zebulon, NC / Roscoe, Ill

Thanks for the clarification.

Royalruler Loc: Rancho Cucamonga

The RAW or NEF file is just a file, whether it gets changed or not is because of the software or PC program you are using. For example if you use PS to make changes those changes are in what is called layers and can be removed so you can return to the original. If you use LightRoom 3 the changes are stored in the catalog and you can click the reset button and return to the original. Of course when you make a jpg file it is a new file and will have all your changes in it.