lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Like others have said look at your cameras files with the Windows File Explorer. Set the View to show extensions.

Why aren't you using Photoshop, Lightroom, or some other professional grade image processor/editor? If you set your camera to Raw the files should be Raw on your PC unless you did something really strange to change them. I beleive only a Raw processor can change the camera output. Learn and live.

11bravo

For security, I always have file extensions visible in explorer. Then you can always see if it's an exe file that someone wants you to double click.

FotoHog Loc: on Cloud 9

Good advice

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Another possibility:

I am sure, by now the OP has "learned his lesson" about undertaking jobs that he might be ill-prepared for, etc.

However! It also sounds like the client does not exactly know what they were specifying either. They asked for a "wide-angle lens" and RAW files. They might be parroting technobabble that they heard kinda thing.

If the exposures and white balance are correct on these Jpegs, and the files do not need an extensive recovery of detail, the Jpegs might suffice.

The assignment was all that "BIG" why did the client not hire an experienced professional? Sometimes you see a case of the blind leading the blind.

I've been in this business for a very long time and I can write a very funny book about things perfectly nice clients had asked for and my job began by deciphering their incorrect terminology.

This is just a wild guess based on kerfuffles and unmitigated mess-ups I have seen. Typically, I would get a panicked call from a "client" complaining that "we hired this terrible photograher who came up with lousy pictures and we need them yesterday, can you shoot it right away? Then, when they tell me their specifications and what THEY THINK needs to be done, I have to tell them that if they hired Hoodidi, he'd have a hard time filling that requirement and let alone at that budget"!

YES! I agree that folks shod not undertake jobs they are not qualified or prepared for. Professional photographers need to develop a slight case of paranoia and be in constant fear of MURPHY'S LAW! That means double-checking all settings that can cause an entire job to go south. Shooting RAW and Jpeg symotanously is a good practice, a bit of "chomping" before breaking down a set or leaving a location is not a bad idea! Checking flash synch, reviewing menu settings, and verification of all exposure and white balance settings should become reflexive and routine. It's when you put your guard down that things go wrong.

Even seasoned professionals can make mistakes. It's a good thing if you can learn from them and do better next time!

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

The files on the memory card may still be in RAW format. Perhaps MS Photos converted only the files on your computer to jpeg, not the original files stored on the card.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

It can if you have downloaded the RAW Codecs pkg from MS.

smussler Loc: Land O Lakes, FL - Formerly Miller Place, NY

That codec is so Windows explorer will display thumbnails for Raw Nikon .nef files, Windows OS doesn't really care or need to recognize anything in data/image files. It's a binary data file - a bunch or zeros and ones. Applications need to be compatible with what ever binary file format that you're trying to use with it. Some people seem to think that just changing a files extension will then magically change it's format. Doesn't work that way. And raw files differ between Manufacturers and even between camera models with Nikon. So the appropriate codec needs to be installed for the particular Camera's files being viewed in explorer - if you want thumbails to appear, which is downloadable from Nikon's site and probably most other Camera manufactures sites. Whether that codec is installed or not - Window OS itself doesn't care.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Put the card in a reader in your computer.
The raw will be there.

ELNikkor

If indeed you shot in RAW, hopefully you did not format the SD card yet. Your RAW files will still be there. Let us know...

HOHIMER

Ad hominem has no place on this forum, regardless of how you were raised.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Good point. I am cautious about downloaded EXE files too. Especially when I am expecting graphics or audio files.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Excellent points. Let us all hope that is the case.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

First clue you didn’t really know what you were doing: “I'd just gotten my first real DLSR.”

photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA

something about this post let off a bit of an odor. I checked out the OP's previous messages and many of them center around a photo shoot for a client that went wrong and the usual question of how he can prevent this from happening again. I am leaving an example or two, like where he claims to use Topaz software:

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-700988-1.html

And here he says he uses "PS" for real estate shoots:

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-679561-1.html

The following post shows that he hasn't learned anything at all (highly improbable) or he is trolling us (much more likely):

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-710304-1.html

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

These posts show an incredible amount of naivete.
--Bob