Processing D7000 RAW Files in CS4

[Feughsider]

Having recently upgraded my D60 to a D7000 I am dismayed to find that Photoshop CS4 / Adobe Camera RAW / Bridge CS4 will not open my D7000 RAW files. I am loathe to be forced to upgrade to CS5. Can anybody suggest other ways of getting my files into CS4 please

[2Beers]

convert them to DNG

[donoreo]

The DNG converter is from from Adobe.

[Ashleyj]

No need to upgrade Photoshop, just update Camera Raw which is a free download.

Look for it on Adobe's site.

[OldBoy]

Originally Posted by Ashleyj

No need to upgrade Photoshop, just update Camera Raw which is a free download.

Look for it on Adobe's site.

Upgrading Camera Raw isn't an option, as the last one that works with CS4 doesn't contain the D7000 camera. As others have suggested, use the lastest DNG converter instead. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...jsp?ftpID=5310

Hope that helps.

[greenwing]

Use ViewNX 2 to process the RAW files & save as TIFF.

[Ashleyj]

Originally Posted by OldBoy

Upgrading Camera Raw isn't an option, as the last one that works with CS4 doesn't contain the D7000 camera. As others have suggested, use the lastest DNG converter instead. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...jsp?ftpID=5310

Hope that helps.

My mistake, I though the latest Camera Raw worked with all versions of PS.

[Rod Lawton]

Originally Posted by Feughsider

Having recently upgraded my D60 to a D7000 I am dismayed to find that Photoshop CS4 / Adobe Camera RAW / Bridge CS4 will not open my D7000 RAW files. I am loathe to be forced to upgrade to CS5. Can anybody suggest other ways of getting my files into CS4 please

Annoying, isn't it? You end up having to upgrade your version of Photoshop to accomodate new cameras. Like OldBoy says, though, your best bet is to download Adobe's free DNG converter. This will take your D7000 RAW files and convert them in a batch to Adobe's own DNG format. They're still RAW files with all the original data, but now you'll be able to open them in older versions of Photoshop. RL

[Feughsider]

Annoying is perhaps an understatement Rob, but yes, it is annoying!

The inconvenience caused to Nikon and Adobe customers by Adobe's customer-unfriendly policy of not supporting D7000 NEF file processing in older versions of Bridge and Camera RAW in particular is then compounded by Microsoft not currently enabling NEF and DNG thumbnails from the D7000 to be 'seen' by Windows Explorer and by Nikon not enabling DNG (or for that matter PSD files) to be 'seen' by View NX2.

Forcing the unsuspecting customer to convert files to either DNG's or TIFF's introduces an unwelcome diversion which consumes both time and disc space in huge amounts. Also if I am right, it seems that PSD's derived from TIFFs which originated in View NX2 cannot be 'saved as' JPEGs after processing as PSD's in Photoshop CS4. Aargh!

I wonder therefore if the good people at Nphoto Mag might like to explore these issues in a forthcoming edition so that people thinking of upgrading their Nikon cameras know exactly what they are letting themselves in for in the absence of Nikon spelling it out for them.

Also perhaps executives from Nikon, Adobe and Microsoft could be invited to address the question of why we should continue to buy their products when they are clearly unwilling to collaborate between themselves for the benefit of customers.

[greenwing]

Adobe would rather you upgraded to a new version of Photoshop, so they don't support new cameras after a new version of Photoshop has been released. Presumably they have some valid technical reason for newer versions of ACR being incompatible with older versions of PS.

Nikon would rather you used Capture NX2 than Photoshop. View NX2 is free software, intended for processing images from Nikon cameras. Why would it have the facility to process or save DNGs?

Microsoft are quite good, I find, though it pains me to say so. Their Windows XP support is still OK, even though it's at least 2 versions out of date. I'm surprised that you haven't been able to get D7000 NEFs displayed as thumbnails (though it may not be a straightforward process), but DNGs are DNGs, and there should be nothing that separates DNGs derived from D7000 NEFs from any other DNGs.

Forcing the unsuspecting customer to convert files to either DNG's or TIFF You're going to have to convert from NEF to some visual format at some stage. Converting to DNG puts that stage off for a while.

Also if I am right, it seems that PSD's derived from TIFFs which originated in View NX2 cannot be 'saved as' JPEGs after processing as PSD's in Photoshop CS4. Aargh!

I think that you must be wrong.

A Nikonian (I think it may have been Bill Claff) used to have a utility that fooled ACR (and other programs) into thinking that NEFs from one camera came from another. I don't know if that can be done for the D7000, but maybe you could check it out.

Chris