Looks to be about a 30° angle to me! :lol:

Not a good idea. Besides negateing the benefits of the extra cost of a 4K monitor, LED monitors should be run at their native resolution for best performance. Especially in photo/video applications.

Since you are paying for the Win 7 install service, the dealer should be delivering a machine that is fully patched and ready to go. You should confirm that with them.

Glad to hear it. Thanks for letting us know the outcome.

Yes, I understand, but what software did you open them with? Don't know if you are a Mac or Windows person, but, if Windows, and you were looking at the NEFs with Windows Explorer or Windows Photo Viewer (with updated MS codec pack) you were seeing the embedded basic quality (compression), full size JPG (uncompressed pixel-wise) that takes up about 15% of the NEF file size-wise - OR you were seeing the NEF being rendered to the screen using the D810 camera settings. In either case, the only way to really "see" the RAW NEF contents is through Adobe or Nikon software. Since the streaks are seen after going through the LR path you need to open the NEF files with NX-D or convert them with DNG Converter for processing in LR.

Hold on - I assume you deleted the corrupt NEF files and they were in the trash - What were you using when you "...opened them and they looked fine..."? I suspect you were viewing the embedded JPG.

Given that the NEFs look OK in the camera I suggest you recopy the misbehaving NEFs to you computer and see what you get when you either use Capture NX-D to "develop" some deliverable JPGs OR use Adobe Digital Negative Converter to convert the NEFs into DNGs and send the DNGs to LR.

If NX-D shows the same streaks when you first drag the NEF in and/or the DNGs show the streaks then your computer seems to have some really bad juju (forgive me for resorting to technical terminology :lol: )

If you don't have NX-D or Adobe DNG Converter installed and are in a time bind - put one of the bad NEFs onto Google Drive, Dropbox, Sugarsync or similar location where it can be downloaded. Post/share the link here or via UHH PM and I can tell you in a few seconds if I see the same corruption.

OR - for a total Plan B until you get the underlying problem sorted out and depending on just how many bad NEFs you have - use the limited in-camera NEF corrections to create JPGs to to bring into LR for final adjustments.

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This is why I suggested the NEF be viewed in the camera's NEF (RAW) Processing mode. Most recent Nikons have the ability to view AND edit NEF files in camera. (See page 399 and 400 of the D810 manual - below). You are viewing and editing the NEF. You can make changes and save out a JPG completely inside the camera. Both my D5100 and D5300 have this capability.

So - once again I suggest yayi60 take a direct look at the NEF in the camera's NEF (RAW) Processing mode before drawing conclusions about the source of the problem.

What does one of the problem NEF files look like in the camera - i.e. when viewing in NEF (RAW) Processing mode? If it looks OK then your SD card is OK.

If I understand your question you had some NEF that looked OK at first, but during LR processing they became streaked? If that is the case then your card reader is probably OK. If so I think Don is right in that something is amiss hardware-wise. Maybe computer RAM, motherboard graphics or graphics card.

Please clarify the above points. The next step would be to troubleshoot your RAM and then the graphics system.

Download and install Google Picasa.

Go to Tools|Folder Manager to tell it what folders to scan (once or always).

Go to Tools|Options|Name Tags tab - Enable face detection.

Read this:
https://sites.google.com/site/picasaresources/Home/Picasa-FAQ/picasa/general-information/where-does-picasa-store-facetags
Decide whether you want to check the "Store name tags in photo" box. Since you're going to all this trouble you should probably check that box.

General info here:
https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/156272?hl=en

Personally, I don't routinely use the name tags - just saw how it worked with a couple of people. Also, I don't believe you have to have a Google account - it just "...lets you add name tags faster by accessing your Google contacts."

With many photos and lots of faces it will grind away for quite some time - perhaps several hours over several sessions. Just let it churn away in the background until the Unnamed count stops. If you open the "People" thingy in the left frame you will see a progressive count of Unnamed people. Once you name one person it will present you with all the faces it thinks are matches - you check 'em or "X" 'em. As more faces are linked to a named person, the better it gets and the "false positives" diminish.

Just remember that if you are embedding people's names in photos and storing them "in the cloud" - well... they're "in the cloud" forever. There may be named individuals who would be uncomfortable with that idea.

And undoubtedly will not be the last. :lol:

I installed that codec a while back (and just did it again to be sure) - doesn't help. Picasa puts a pinkish/magenta cast over all D5300 NEFs that can't be corrected.

I too was somewhat surprised by how the the color, texture and fine details of the NEF was better rendered in the Picasa-generated JPG than the SOOC (fine) JPG. Keeping in mind that IJFR merely pulls out the camera-generated basic resolution JPG stored in the NEF, it really highlights how, in many, many cases it is not worth the 5-fold increase in storage space to be shooting RAW+JPG-fine. Especially when you are already taking a storage hit with the unavoidable NEF-embedded basic JPG AND that you can get a JPG with more fidelity by exporting the NEF with Picasa.

Thanks to your questions and the OP, I can go through and delete literally thousands of D5100 JPGs. I just wish Picasa understood the D5300 NEFs so I could abandon RAW+JPG altogether.

I offered this:
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-300266-2.html#5064484

Decided to compare NEF to camera (D5100) JPG to Picasa exported jpg (original size - automatic quality) to Instant JPEG From RAW. Results with histograms below. The quality and size of the Picasa exported NEF shows it is not simply sucking out the embedded JPG. The NEF file was brought into PS with no adjustments.

(Download)

Ohhh... I didn't realize that.



You can give up shooting RAW+jpeg Fine. Since Picasa correctly displays your D7100 and D5000 NEFs just do whatever editing you want to do and then Export. Picasa will give you a dialog box to set size and jpg quality and write them out to jpgs with the edits. If you don't need to edit just select them and Export the whole batch.

When I'm creating jpgs for emailing or "casual" distribution I will usually put the selected items in a new album with a title pertaining to date, photos and recipient - like 2014 Christmas for Mom. That gives me a record of what has been sent to whom and when. There is no disk storage costs to Picasa albums - they are just pointers to photos, not copies. The Exports are, of course, new jpg files.

One little clarification - if all the photos are in the same folder, just CTRL-click to add them to the selection tray. If you want to add more photos to the selection from a different folder be sure to pin them otherwise they disappear from the selection tray when you move to a different folder. When the selection is complete add to album and/or Export.