Going to take my 1st RAW today, how to download & other ?

[Digital]

I have Nikon 7000 which has 2 card slots. I chose the menu setting for 1st card keeps it as jpeg, 2nd card keeps it as Raw. Don't know how to have Raw and jpeg on same card?
N

Nancy, I have only one card slot for my Nikon D300. As a result both files are placed on the one card.
Not knowing your camera, I have no information as to whether you can place both files on the same card.

Bruce

[Shadowman]

I have Nikon 7000 which has 2 card slots. I chose the menu setting for 1st card keeps it as jpeg, 2nd card keeps it as Raw. Don't know how to have Raw and jpeg on same card?
N

How many times have you filled one card so far? If very few, why not use one card for a days worth of shooting, save both RAW and jpeg to the same card, and do your transfers and edits that way until you are comfortable with the process.

[Nancy Moran G]

How many times have you filled one card so far? If very few, why not use one card for a days worth of shooting, save both RAW and jpeg to the same card, and do your transfers and edits that way until you are comfortable with the process.

You are right! Found out how to shoot Raw under Nef in my manual, will give it a whirl!
Nancy

[Brownbear]

Hi Nancy,

Go to Menu, Shooting Menu, Image Quality - select raw and jpeg

Then in the same Shooting menu go to the selection Role played by card in Slot 2 and select overflow... This will set both cards to store the raw and jpeg file with the 2nd card acting as back up...

Note this is for my D7100 but I think it will likely be similar to your camera.

I have Nikon 7000 which has 2 card slots. I chose the menu setting for 1st card keeps it as jpeg, 2nd card keeps it as Raw. Don't know how to have Raw and jpeg on same card?
N

[Donald]

Nancy

Just downloaded a copy of your User Manual, for a quick read. Geez, it's complicated. My dear old Canon 40D Manual is a breeze compared to that thing.

The closest I could see to what you need to read is at pages 85-90. It tells you about RAW + JPEG shooting, but it wasn't obvious to me how you actually set that up. Maybe some other Nikon users can come in and better explain how you set up camera menu options on a Nikons. It's very straightforward on the Canon and I can't believe it's not just as easy on your camera.


EDIT - OOPS - Christina has just posted a reply ahead of me.

[Digital]

As a side note, if you are shooting RAW + JPEG with Lightroom (at least LR4), you must tell Lightoom to import BOTH files.
By default LR will only import the RAW files unless you change the default setting. Found under Edit - Preferences.
I found out this the hard way, and Adobe was not much help.


Bruce

[The Woton]

Good day Nancy, I am a Canon camera user and have used this free software to quickly view my raw files before using other software to manipulate my images. Check it out as it might be useful until your other software arrives. http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Regards,

Tom

[RobertsMx]

As a side note, if you are shooting RAW + JPEG with Lightroom (at least LR4), you must tell Lightoom to import BOTH files.
By default LR will only import the RAW files unless you change the default setting. Found under Edit - Preferences.
I found out this the hard way, and Adobe was not much help.
Bruce

I probably had the preferences set, but when importing into LR4, the software will only show RAW files if both RAW and JPEG exist. However, it will show JPEG if there is no corresponding RAW. And if you delete RAW, it will delete both RAW and JPEG (if that is how they were imported).

[Digital]

I probably had the preferences set, but when importing into LR4, the software will only show RAW files if both RAW and JPEG exist. However, it will show JPEG if there is no corresponding RAW. And if you delete RAW, it will delete both RAW and JPEG (if that is how they were imported).

In LR4, if you change the default setting, LR will display BOTH the RAW, and JPEG files.


Bruce

[Cogito]

Nancy, I think that the first thing to do is READ THE MANUAL! This will tell you that you can select either card slot to save your images to. Whichever card slot you choose, there is a menu option to choose what format to save images. The choices are RAW, JPEG or RAW + JPEG. This is independent of whatever card you are writing to. Choose the card slot, choose what to write.
As far as processing is concerned, for starters you probably have software supplied with the camera. Again READ THE MANUAL! IT will allow you to adjust the image as far as exposure, contrast, light etc. is concerned. It may do more, I don't own a Nikon so ... When you save a modified RAW image you will probably save it as a JPEG file. Fine. You now have an image you can apply all sorts of modifications to ANY image manipulation software that you care to use.

[Nancy Moran G]

Christina, you are a life saver. I kept looking in the manual under 'Raw' and reading those pages,it didn't tell how to set the camera for 1 card.
With your suggestion of 'Image Quality', that was the page I needed in manual!
Thanks, my newbie self didn't know where to find the answer.
Nancy

[Brownbear]

Hi Nancy,

Thank you. I'm delighted to know that I was able to help.

Christina, you are a life saver. I kept looking in the manual under 'Raw' and reading those pages,it didn't tell how to set the camera for 1 card.
With your suggestion of 'Image Quality', that was the page I needed in manual!
Thanks, my newbie self didn't know where to find the answer.
Nancy

[treesplace]

Help...been playing with my camera settings and trying to shoot Raw and color and somehow all my photos except for a few are all black and white. Using my Cannon EOS Rebel XTI and the day before I did the same thing and I have wonderful photos. I love black and white but really want some color photos if possible. Using the trial of Corel Aftershot Pro. I have an amazing photo of a lion (color) in the whole set of photos. Just wondering what I did wrong. Tree

[drjuice]

Hi, Nancy -

I presume by now you've got your software by express or USPS or whatever. But, for other people, you can open most any format, including RAW except for brand new changes by your vendor using n-day trial software as well as free software.

Free software that will convert RAW with minimal messes is dcraw. It can be run in a batch format, so in a PC, I make a .bat file that has many lines that look similar to the line below the DSC numbers are assigned by the camera's firmware. For starters I've used it in .bat mode and a typical conversion off the command line looks like this, assuming the dcraw executable is in the Path on a Windoze system and the RAW images are in the current directory (ARW is the file extension Sony gives to RAW images):

dcraw -T -w DSC08763.ARW

What I've instructed dcraw to do here is to create a TIFF image and to use the white balance as defined in the camera as I find that the WB gets me very close to the neighborhood where I want the image to be. I prefer a TIFF image to be output mainly because, to the extent possible, I don't use ANYBODY's proprietary image format unless it ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY is the only possibility for the situation.

I also regularly convert Canon .CR2 RAW images using this same process as well as converting others shot using a microscope attachment on the Canon so we could get the various fluorescences on the target material to show up properly.

Additionally, for nearly every camera I'm aware of that creates RAW format images according to the rules for that vendor's specifications for formatting RAW images, a CD or DVD is in the camera's package with the end-user buys the camera. But, again, because this is proprietary, I really don't like using it. I want to get out of proprietary formats as quickly and as generalizably as possible and dcraw does that for me.

I also use FastStone Image Viewer (they want a donation, $5US will do) which is really handy for me to preview RAW format images before I start working with them. For some images that I determine I don't want to mess with, I keep only the RAW format images. And, using FSIV, I decide which ones to convert.

Finally, just about everybody who charges gazillions of $$$ for their software has a 30-day trial version that's free so you could use a 30-day trial of the packages you've ordered. When the "boughten" software arrives, usually, you can insert the registration number (usually this is under the Help-->Registration menu item or Tools-->Options or Tools-->Profile or something similar) in the downloaded copy.

In addition, on the subject of loading images from the camera to the computer (I'd call it uploading rather than downloading), I ultimately load all my RAW images onto my computer since I archive ALL the RAW images from my computer plus my (SONY) computer where I start the process takes my Memory Stick ProDuo (which is also a SONY product) directly. And, as I mentioned in another post, I keep ALL the RAW images and selectively create other formats of the ones I like.

Hope this helps.

virginia

[drjuice]

Hi, Treesplace -

It is likely to be wrong menu setting that accidentally got reset while you thought you were doing something else. I'd suggest reading the fine manual to find where in the menu system the accidental resetting happened and then going to that spot to do an on-purpose resetting to color or color+BW or leave it as BW.

virginia

[Green Mountain Girl]

Hi,
Finally going to try RAW. With D7000, I will set 1 to jpeg, 1 RAW card.
When I download, do I have to have a certain PP product? I never loaded the Nikon software when I got camera May 2012.

Once you get used to RAW, you will find you no longer have to shoot jpeg as well (unless you want to share photos right away from the camera). RAW is like a film negative - all the information you want is in there. When you want a jpeg, it is easy to make one from the RAW. Just make sure you don't do any editing work directly on the original - use a copy and keep the original in case you want to experiment again later as you learn new techniques.

Yes, you have to have a PP product that will read the RAW files. The NX2 that came with the camera is a good place to start, as it is not a complicated program to use.

I just ordered PSE 11 and Photomatix, but they are not here yet. I am trying to practice first.

When I get product, what then!? Download only the RAW ones I want to work with into PSE???
I did read Tutorials, but still so new, hard for me to grasp right now.
Nancy

The first part of PSE 11 is the RAW converter, and is fairly straightforward to use. However, after that it gets more complicated. I started out with PSE 9, found it difficult to comprehend, and switched to LR4, which is much more intuitive. But the ability to use layers when editing was attractive, so I upgraded to PSE 11 (because PSE 9 would not recognize the RAW files of my D7000) and purchased Scott Kelby's book on PSE 11 to help explain how to use it. If you run into difficulties, this book is very helpful.

The Adobe tutorials are hard to follow, so I am not surprised if you are having trouble with them.

Hope this helps.

Susan

[Rob Ekins]

Help...been playing with my camera settings and trying to shoot Raw and color and somehow all my photos except for a few are all black and white. Using my Cannon EOS Rebel XTI and the day before I did the same thing and I have wonderful photos. I love black and white but really want some color photos if possible. Using the trial of Corel Aftershot Pro. I have an amazing photo of a lion (color) in the whole set of photos. Just wondering what I did wrong. Tree

Teresa,
A bit late perhaps but I thought I would respond in case someone else with a Rebel has the same issue later on and does a search.

I suspect you have changed the picture style in your menu settings. Page 63 of your manual.

Robbie.