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Problem opening a NEF

PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:00 pm
by ATJ
I took a few photographs on the weekend and while I can load all but one of them. One gives me errors.

They were all taken in RAW format. I can view the thumbnails and the images with NikonView - but I assume it is just looking at the imbeded JPEG. If I try to open it with Nikon Editor or Nikon Capture Editor I get the following error messages:

Image

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If I try to open it with PaintShopPro 9, the colours are all screwed up.

Has anyone had this problem before? Is there anyway to recover?

PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:31 pm
by Yi-P
Probabbly the file is currupted on transfer or while on the card...

I hope it is not an important picture. BTW, do you see a thumbnail preview of it in windows explorer??

And if you still have the master copy on the card, try downloading it from the card again..

PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:38 pm
by ATJ
I still have it on the card and I get the same messages trying to read it directly from the card. It wasn't all that important but I don't like losing photos :(

I can view the whole image in Nikon Viewer. Even 1:1.

PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:36 pm
by huynhie
Are you able to try and open the file in another program like Photoshop, Bibble, Capture One or Rawshooter.

You can download a free trial of some of these programs if your really desperate to retrieve these images.

PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 6:25 pm
by gstark
ATJ wrote:I still have it on the card and I get the same messages trying to read it directly from the card. It wasn't all that important but I don't like losing photos :(

I can view the whole image in Nikon Viewer. Even 1:1.


Given this last fact, can you then load the image, in NC (say) directly from the card? If so, perhaps you can then save it into a different location?

I don't think you have a save option in NV, but if it can read the file, pehaps it can copy it to a different location?

Maybe in batch mode

Just a few ways to try this ...

PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 10:51 pm
by ATJ
huynhie wrote:Are you able to try and open the file in another program like Photoshop

Don't have it.

huynhie wrote:Bibble

Don't have it.

huynhie wrote:Capture One

Downloaded a trial version - same coruption as with PSP9

huynhie wrote:Rawshooter.

Downloaded a trial version - same coruption as with PSP9

gstark wrote:Given this last fact, can you then load the image, in NC (say) directly from the card?

Nope.

gstark wrote:I don't think you have a save option in NV, but if it can read the file, pehaps it can copy it to a different location?

No option to move it - but it wouldn't help as the file on the card has the problem. I tried the email option in NV and it crapped out - caused NV to crash.

Looks like all I will be able to do is a screen capture of what NV shows.

Thanks for your help, anyway.