paul rankin , Jul 25, 2008; 06:17 p.m.
Bought a new d700 today, downloaded the nikon transfer and capture software that came with the camera, but can not view pics in
Lightroom. I do my organizing and editing in Lightroom and was wondering if there is a patch from Nikon or Adobe that I need to download.
Paul Rankin
William Pahnelas 
, Jul 25, 2008; 06:27 p.m.
i bet that whatever worked for D300/D3 will work for D700 files. check the archives here or adobe's site. the patch(s) might not say D700, but all 3 cameras share the same file format.
Ed Chambers , Jul 25, 2008; 06:31 p.m.
Are you speaking RAW? I have NEF files that I can not import into Picasa.
Ellis Vener 
, Jul 25, 2008; 06:33 p.m.
Bummer! you'll have to wait until Adobe releases the next update of ACR unless someone can tell you how to hack the D700 EXIF so that Lightroom thinks it is a D3 file. How do you like the D700 so far?
Garrison K. 
, Jul 25, 2008; 07:15 p.m.
So...where can we download some 3200 iso nefs from ya? :)
Shun Cheung 
, Jul 25, 2008; 08:31 p.m.
Just shoot NEF + JPEG fine for the time being.
Keith Dunlop , Jul 26, 2008; 01:34 a.m.
Why can't you copy the NEF files to a folder then copy and import to Lightroom as DNG's?
Walter Schroeder , Jul 26, 2008; 06:22 a.m.
Shun I expected that you had a sticky thread already prepared :-P
With every new camera we get 101 threads of big surprise that " I cannot read nef files - how come?^^
I suspect that Adobe should work together with Nikon in a much better way - did they not say they are like brothers nowadays?
Well seriously: we have to wait until third party software gets an update.
Andreas Weber , Jul 26, 2008; 07:48 a.m.
On a German forum dedicated to the D700 someone posted a quick hack:
http://www.nikon-fotografie.de/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68682 . There's a link to a DOS command line program
http://www.panopeeper.com/Download/D700TOD3.exe which expects two parameters as input, the filename of a D700 NEF
and an output name for a "simulated" D3 NEF. If no output name is given, a _D3 is inserted before the .NEF. The
program simply changes the file header from "D700" to "D3", which apparently makes the file acceptable for ACR at
least, others not tested. No guarantee, use copies of your precious files, not for professional environment, you
know the spiel...
Arthur Yeo 
, Jul 26, 2008; 02:33 p.m.
If you planning to use NEF, why use the second best Raw converter for NEF? Why not use the best NEF converter --- CaptureNX? Just a humble suggestion.
