David Hoadley
Stormtrack founder
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2006
- Messages
- 120
I have given up on opening and modifying the four, test, RAW images taken with my Nikon D5200 camera in August. After some delay for family matters, I returned to and successfully downloaded the Nikon NX-D software to my Windows 7 Dell laptop.
After 20-30 hours of studying much of the complex “…NS-D Reference Manual,” I think I finally figured it out. I have now copied dozens of small, 7-font type, definitions and explanations on a crowded and detailed 4-page chart --ranging from “intensity” and “sharpness” to cache capacity, astro noise reduction, and “axial color aberration” (whatever the Hell that means!!) --plus a dozen more obscure terms and about six ways to save certain changes. Of course, nothing basic about simply how to modify a RAW image! I thought that once NX-D was downloaded, I could transfer the RAW images from my camera‘s memory chip. That software does list other, regular photos in my laptop.
However, as before, when I tried to download the 8 images (four regular and four RAW) from one day‘s test shoot, the same default message again popped up, saying “Some…can’t be displayed… To view certain types of files, you need to install software called a codec.” When I tried to download the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack (6.3.9721.0), I was told to “Click the Download button.” Well, there is no such button (as before). I tried both Dan’s and Jeff’s suggested sites but still came up with the requirement for a codec file. I give up. If I can’t download RAW to my computer, then the issue of which software to use for image enhancement doesn’t even come up. I suspect it is partly a generational problem of mine --just too old to understand what I am doing wrong.
Thanks, again, but I am ending this time consuming, maddening, and fruitless pursuit.
After 20-30 hours of studying much of the complex “…NS-D Reference Manual,” I think I finally figured it out. I have now copied dozens of small, 7-font type, definitions and explanations on a crowded and detailed 4-page chart --ranging from “intensity” and “sharpness” to cache capacity, astro noise reduction, and “axial color aberration” (whatever the Hell that means!!) --plus a dozen more obscure terms and about six ways to save certain changes. Of course, nothing basic about simply how to modify a RAW image! I thought that once NX-D was downloaded, I could transfer the RAW images from my camera‘s memory chip. That software does list other, regular photos in my laptop.
However, as before, when I tried to download the 8 images (four regular and four RAW) from one day‘s test shoot, the same default message again popped up, saying “Some…can’t be displayed… To view certain types of files, you need to install software called a codec.” When I tried to download the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack (6.3.9721.0), I was told to “Click the Download button.” Well, there is no such button (as before). I tried both Dan’s and Jeff’s suggested sites but still came up with the requirement for a codec file. I give up. If I can’t download RAW to my computer, then the issue of which software to use for image enhancement doesn’t even come up. I suspect it is partly a generational problem of mine --just too old to understand what I am doing wrong.
Thanks, again, but I am ending this time consuming, maddening, and fruitless pursuit.
