I have a bunch of .nef (raw Nikon) images I would like to convert to
something a bit more common, say, .tiff. Does anyone know of a
slack-friendly utility to do this?

NJC.

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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:58:58PM PDT, Nick Chackowsky wrote
in article <412e958e_5@news.athenanews.com>:

> I have a bunch of .nef (raw Nikon) images I would like to convert to
> something a bit more common, say, .tiff. Does anyone know of a
> slack-friendly utility to do this?

try ImageMagick, it supports quite alot of image formats, and is very
commandline friendly


Jurgen.

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Nick Chackowsky wrote:
> I have a bunch of .nef (raw Nikon) images I would like to convert to
> something a bit more common, say, .tiff. Does anyone know of a
> slack-friendly utility to do this?

you might try your luck with ImageMagick's convert utility. (see 'man
ImageMagick' and 'man convert'.) it comes with slackware. but from a quick
look through the man page it doesn't seem that .nef is supported...

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In article <slrncitt51.da.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem .chello.nl>,
Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Nick Chackowsky wrote:
>> I have a bunch of .nef (raw Nikon) images I would like to convert to
>> something a bit more common, say, .tiff. Does anyone know of a
>> slack-friendly utility to do this?
>
>you might try your luck with ImageMagick's convert utility. (see 'man
>ImageMagick' and 'man convert'.) it comes with slackware. but from a quick
>look through the man page it doesn't seem that .nef is supported...

You probably need:

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

(or one of the imaging applications that use this code - the page includes
links to GIMP plugins, etc.).

Check the 'supported cameras' list for your model - not all .nef files are
created equal (Dave Coffin is very good at adding support for new cameras
pretty soon after they are released, but generally has to reverse
engineer proprietary undocumented file formats like the various versions
of .nef).

Richard.