D70 and RAW images

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I finally downloaded Nikon View and just started playing with RAW images.
All I can say is WOW!

I also found out I need a new computer to handle the larger image files.
I'm too old to wait for these RAW files to download, process and save. An
8MB JPEG file? Yikes!

Sheldon
sheldon@sopris.net

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"Christopher Pollard" <rubbish@cginternet.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:10:50 -0700, "Sheldon" <sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net>
> wrote:
>
>>I finally downloaded Nikon View and just started playing with RAW images.
>>All I can say is WOW!
>
> Why did you need to download Nikon software? Photoshop 7 reads them just
> fine
> with the plugin which comes on the D70 CD.
>
All I have is Photoshop LE, so I have no way of seeing the RAW images
without the Nikon software. Eventually I'll get the latest version of
Photoshop, but I'm pretty amazed at what I can do now with the limited
resources I've got. I can punch things up a bit with Nikon View, then go
into LE and tweak it even more. Up to today I was limited to only shooting
JPEG images never realizing what the difference was between shooting jpg and
raw..

Sheldon

Sheldon

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Here you go...
http://www.webfrustration.com/arch [...] 10/3/52847

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I'm on W98se, so the directory I'm looking at is C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Plug-Ins\File Formats and the specific files are
"Nikon NEF plugin_5x.8Bi" and "Nikon YCC TIFF_5x.8Bl".
>

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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:10:50 -0700, in rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
"Sheldon" <sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net> wrote:

>I finally downloaded Nikon View and just started playing with RAW images.
>All I can say is WOW!
>
>I also found out I need a new computer to handle the larger image files.
>I'm too old to wait for these RAW files to download, process and save. An
>8MB JPEG file? Yikes!

The "Excellent Quality" choice in the Nikon Editor that comes with NV and
the Nikon Capture Editor that comes with Capture appears to use less
compression than the Fine mode in the camera. For quality/size similar to
Fine use the next selection down, "Good Quality."
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See images taken with my CP-990/5700 & D70 at
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Phot [...] index.html

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"Alan Browne" <alan.browne@freelunchVideotron.ca> wrote in message
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> Sheldon wrote:
>
> > I finally downloaded Nikon View and just started playing with RAW
images.
> > All I can say is WOW!
> >
> > I also found out I need a new computer to handle the larger image files.
> > I'm too old to wait for these RAW files to download, process and save.
An
> > 8MB JPEG file? Yikes!
>
> 16 bit/col scans of 35mm at 5400 dpi ---> 240 Mb TIF. (about 15-20% of
that is
> 'useless' but that is how it's stored). A DVD burner is a neccesity.

This "hobby" is getting out of hand. I used to do this for a living, so I
better make a few bucks at this just to offset the extra computer hardware
and software. <BG>

Sheldon
>
>
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