mass converting files
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fab thank you!!
Just a suggestion, why not shoot in RAW and Jpeg if your camera is capable of doing so. That way you can quickly see the Jpeg shots and if editing wanted use the same RAW shot to edit with.
Best of both worlds then
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Thats what I do, but the raw files are small raw, I cant see a way to get them in a better format than the 1 meg files it is giving me and that size is not good enough for printing (or is it??)
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it all depends on how large you want to print once your happy to go and print. Are you doing your own printing or out outsourcing? I am quite happy printing up to A4 size but all I can suggest is a trial with paper size until you reach an unacceptable size print. it also depend a lot on the printer. A good dedicated photo printer is a must in my opinion, trying to get good copy on an ordinary printer and straight away your on a looser.
Ok I don't have a top high cost photoprinter but then photography is just a hobby and have no intention of anything else.
I edit using Photoshop Elements 9 and print using an Epson Stylus Photo PX710W printer and calibrate between screen and printer with Color Munkie Photo occassionally for my Windows XP computer.
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Ok I don't have a top high cost photoprinter but then photography is just a hobby and have no intention of anything else.
I edit using Photoshop Elements 9 and print using an Epson Stylus Photo PX710W printer and calibrate between screen and printer with Color Munkie Photo occassionally for my Windows XP computer.
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You should not need anything more than what ever Nikon give you with the Camera.
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ViewNX (whichever version came with your camera) does this and also applies in-camera settings to the RAW file first (unless you've edited the RAW file) plus it is FREE 
Select the files you want to convert then right-click on one of them and select OUTPUT>CONVERT FILES .... job done
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There is no advantage to mass converting Raw files to Jpeg.
If that is what you want simply shoot Jpegs.
The advantage of Raw files can only be obtained by individual attention.
If that is what you want simply shoot Jpegs.
The advantage of Raw files can only be obtained by individual attention.
Thanks all - I shoot in raw plus small jpeg for those images I do want to play with, you never know do you when you when you will wish you had the raw but I also have a load I want to print without doing anything to them.
The images are to go in a photo book and max will be at a4 - will the 1 meg ish jpegs suffice for this??
I didn't quite get what was meant by I never need more than nikkon give me sorry.
The images are to go in a photo book and max will be at a4 - will the 1 meg ish jpegs suffice for this??
I didn't quite get what was meant by I never need more than nikkon give me sorry.
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I think the post meant you will be fine with the Nikon software. If you can use that to get full size jpegs (with the standard camera processing applied) that would be better than using small files.
That's not really true. If you take more than one picture in an environment where the light isn't changing (indoors say) you can work out your tweaks for one RAW image and then apply them to a series.
I do occassionally use raw for editting, not all the time, but then I kicked myself sometimes when i didnt have it so now so I take them raw, but I prefer to view them all in jpeg from windows viewer and my camera gives me the option for large raw and small jpeg, but the small jpeg isnt (I dont think) of sufficient quality for printing or photobooks.
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Yes and No! I dont know about the Nikon software but Canons DPP that comes bundled with the camera has the ability to save your RAW tweaks to the clipboard as a recipe which can then be individually or batch applied to other images taken in the same environment/lighting/WB conditions. A real time saver.
However I do also take your point that a RAW image is used so that you can give it individual attention.
I do both but more often than not its one at a time.
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Hi Chris, I had a go with fast stone, and it does the conversions very well, but then when you compare the jpeg with the old raw image, the jpeg looks very dull and nowhere near as clear? Have you noticed this?
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That's because FastStone doesn't apply any of the in-camera settings but makes a guestimate of what they are. Only Nikon software can apply these setting with complete accuracy.
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I see. I uninstalled it anyway and went back to saving the raw files to jpeg individually in pse9.
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Alan, as I've intimated elsewhere in this thread if you use Nikon's ViewNX2 (or ViewNX if that's what came with your camera) then conversion from RAW to jpg is simpler/easier than using any other editing software.
Like faststone, pse9 - and any other non-Nikon software - guesses what settings you meant to apply to the image. Some guess better than others but it is still a guess and will almost certainly result in you making changes after the conversion.
With ViewNX you can make bulk conversions with bulk adjustments based on the edits you make to just one RAW file. Simples
ViewNX2 is a free download from the Nikon UK website.
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the link. I will have a go with it
Thanks for the link. I will have a go with it