[Digikam-users] Nikon RAW support

[snark2004-first at yahoo.com.au]

Thanks for the replies- been out of range of phone/'net since I posted.
The D70 photos were imported from a USB backup hard drive - digikam is ignorant of the nefs; no thumbnail, and as I mentioned the file fails to open. I imagine all of them may have been (at least) looked at using the Nikon software. I doubt there was a lot (any ?) post processing done - but it  was a long time ago. The D7000 image for comparison was loaded (sorry, imported ;) directly from the camera.
You may be right about the images being mangled - Just installed gimp with ufraw plugin and it also can't handle the D70 nefs.

I managed to find a couple of my CF cards, one was empty, the other had only jpegs - I also found the camera and charger, so I'll get a RAW shot or two and see how digikam/gimp handles that. I'll report back.





On Monday, 17 March 2014 11:58 PM, Simon Cropper <simoncropper at fossworkflowguides.com> wrote:
 
On 17/03/14 22:58, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> digiKam use LibRaw decoder to handle RAW files. This include Nikon
>> files of course.
>>
>> http://www.libraw.org
>>
>> First, go to Help/Components Info dialog to see which libraw version you use.
>> Second, look in Help/Raw files support dialog to see if your camera is
>> supported.
>>
>> D70 is a common Nikon camera, and i'm sure to have already tested it
>> in the past. Look my screenshot here :
>>
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/13216942894/sizes/o/
>>
>> To be sure, you can send me a file sample by a private email, to test
>> on my computer. Perhaps NEF file metadata have been corrupted by
>> another 3rd party application.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> 2014-03-13 8:14 GMT+01:00  <snark2004-first at yahoo.com.au>:
>>> New user - needing a (different) photo organiser, so trying digikam for the first time (under Cinnamon not kde on Mint 16).
>>>
>>> So, loaded up a few thousand old photos - looked good. Except ... digikam is unable to load nef from my old D70. The jpegs are fine.
>>> Went and grabbed a nef from my D7000, and digikam can handle that ok.
>>>
>>> Loaded the D70 shots under Nikons Capture 4 (an old Windows XP box I'm decommisioning - the source of these shots) and they load (and look) fine.
>>>
>>> Searching didn't show anything obvious - anyone willing to hazard a guesss at what may be wrong - that I can fix ?.
>>>
>>> Thanks ...
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>
>I use a D70s and it work fine. I recollect others have had problems in 
>the past when programs used to tag an image corrupted the NEF metadata 
>making them invisible to digikam -- no thumbnails, nothing.
>
>Have you tested photos not opened by any other program, copied from you 
>camera directly to an album that digikam can see?
>
>Also it might shed some light if you explain what you mean load? Can you 
>see thumbnails and the editor will not work, or is the file invisible to 
>digikam?
>
>If you are happy to share an image, I'll test it on my installation. I 
>am using Ubuntu 13.10, Gnome Classic. I'll report back to the list and 
>delete the image.
>
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