Hi all, I bought a D50 recently with the recommendation from the good people here. Thanks. I am shooting everything with Camera Raw (.NEF) files. How do you convert them and store them to keep the highest quality pictures without huge files (42+MB)? What programs do you use? Just want to learn from the pros here. Thanks again.
For your adverage everyday shooting the NEF is WAY overkill just shoot your BS Stuff in High Jpeg othewise you will run into storage issues on the camera and othewise. Adobe Photoshop CS is what i use but the Nikon Software has had some great reviews. The only time i use the NEF is if i have a shot that i know is going to be up there in useage. Then i can control dozens of aspects and get a great image. Don't think about bulk converting the NEF's othewise you are just negating the reason the file format is there. Like i said only use the NEF when you need it. High Jpg is just fine up to 20x30 and for most applications is even more than you need. The main problem that i have with NEF is my D100 runs foking slow and has very slow buffer. Regardless of what Media i am using (high speed 2 to 4 gig cards) the images take forever to write. The D50 and 70 have much improved on the buffer and the D200 is stunning. Still looking at a D2X for next move in a few weeks.
The software that comes withthe camera will convert raw NEF to JPG. However, I agree with the others that NEF is not needed.
We have a D70 and use raw a bit, bit hard to get them printed in raw, but in the program that came with the D70, guessing its the same with D50, PictureProject, and you just go, 'file', 'Export JPEG', and i am pretty sure that just converts it.
Get a DVD burner and make three (3) copies of each one you burn. I am starting to see CD's and DVD's go bad, be unreadable.
