Nikon NEF is it lossless

[kipper]

Found this interesting read. Not sure if it's been posted before. If it has delete this thread.

http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2004/05/02-1.html

[SoCal Steve]

An interesting read, although a little discouraging.

There's a complete book on "Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop"
by Bruce Fraser published jointly by Adobe Press and Peachpit Press.
218pgs. List price $35, but I bought it on Amazon.com for $18.

Two of his articles from the book are available as .pdf's at Adobe's website where the Camera Raw plugin is offered.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

[stubbsy]

Kipper

Thanks for this a really good read. Now I know why my pictures are crap - it's not me it's the lossy RAW format Nikon uses. I'l head out now and buy on of those nice Canon's the author seems to like

[kipper]

I don't think he really likes either of them for using compressed RAWs. He just says Canon does it better.

[MattC]

That was an interesting read, although I see the whole thing as being a little academic. Would I see the difference in my final prints. The answer to that is probably no. It is the prints that are the final objective and most printers will probably not print all of the data in a NEF file.

Cheers

Matt