Should have added that I suspect the impulse toward "raw" and "NEF" comes mostly from those of us who came to photography in the film era. We remember that stepping up filmstock quality led to greater adjacency, overall sharpness, evenness of gradation. "raw" does not answer that quest in digital, especially when using puny DX sensors (let alone the even smaller sensors in point-and-shoots and mobil phones). The real answer for those of us seeking the qualitative result of film is to graduate to FX sensors, or simply to capture in rollfilm or 4x5, or even 35mm, as Ken Rockwell demonstrates convincingly on his website http://www.kenrockwell.com/ . If digital end result is desired, then high-end scanning gets us there; there are several labs that process film with scans.
--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Robert Carroll <[email protected]> wrote: From: Robert Carroll <[email protected]> Subject: [CGUYS] NEF plugin for Irfanview To: [email protected] Date: Monday, April 12, 2010, 10:22 PM I want to be able to view the "NEF" files that are stored on my PC. According to Irfanview, there is a plugin for NEF files (these are similar to RAW files), but I downloaded the plugin executable from the Irfanview web site and, after installing, Windows still does not recognize NEF nor does Irfanview. The list of plugins: http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm My Irfanview version: 4.23 My plugin version: 4.25 Question 1: Where to obtain the plugin for NEF? Question 2: If plugin not available, what free program will let me view NEF files? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
