NEF transfer from Mac OSX or OS9 to Windows XP
Hi and thanks in advance,
I have a problem viewing NEF files on my PC (running Windows XP) after transferring them from my Mac (OSX,10.3). I transfer them by either CD or compact flash card. When I attempt to view them with Nikon Browser by clicking the folder that they are in, the program crashes. If I attempt to open them with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 or 7.0 the program does not crash, but it is unable to read the files. If I convert them to either jpg or tif files prior to transferring them, I have no problem. It seems to be related to the file. I also attempted the transfer using Mac OS9 with the same problems. I have no problems viewing NEF files downloaded straight from my camera (Nikon D100) to my PC. Thanks. |
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Ed Ruf wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:37:26 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Kit Bonin wrote: Hi and thanks in advance, I have a problem viewing NEF files on my PC (running Windows XP) after transferring them from my Mac (OSX,10.3). I transfer them by either CD or compact flash card. When I attempt to view them with Nikon Browser by clicking the folder that they are in, the program crashes. If I attempt to open them with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 or 7.0 the program does not crash, but it is unable to read the files. If I convert them to either jpg or tif files prior to transferring them, I have no problem. It seems to be related to the file. I also attempted the transfer using Mac OS9 with the same problems. I have no problems viewing NEF files downloaded straight from my camera (Nikon D100) to my PC. Thanks. NEFs are just specialized TIF files and IIRC at least way back when there was an issue between Macs and PC of big vs little endian, ie whether of not the two 8 bytes pieces were written high or low byte first. Back in those days I used Graphic Converter as it had an option to write either format. Don't know if that would work here. Can you ftp files between machines? __________________________________________________ ______ Ed Ruf Lifetime AMA# 344007 ) See images taken with my CP-990/5700 & D70 at http://EdwardGRuf.com Try using the xxd command in terminal. % xxd -l 4 somefile 0000000: 4d4d 002a MM.* Big-endian TIFF is 4d4d002a while little-endian TIFF is 49492a00. It's actually mean to be visually recognizable in a hex dump. "MM.*" for Motorola big-end and "II*." for Intel little-end. |
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Ed Ruf wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:37:26 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Kit Bonin wrote: Hi and thanks in advance, I have a problem viewing NEF files on my PC (running Windows XP) after transferring them from my Mac (OSX,10.3). I transfer them by either CD or compact flash card. When I attempt to view them with Nikon Browser by clicking the folder that they are in, the program crashes. If I attempt to open them with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 or 7.0 the program does not crash, but it is unable to read the files. If I convert them to either jpg or tif files prior to transferring them, I have no problem. It seems to be related to the file. I also attempted the transfer using Mac OS9 with the same problems. I have no problems viewing NEF files downloaded straight from my camera (Nikon D100) to my PC. Thanks. NEFs are just specialized TIF files and IIRC at least way back when there was an issue between Macs and PC of big vs little endian, ie whether of not the two 8 bytes pieces were written high or low byte first. Back in those days I used Graphic Converter as it had an option to write either format. Don't know if that would work here. Can you ftp files between machines? __________________________________________________ ______ Ed Ruf Lifetime AMA# 344007 ) See images taken with my CP-990/5700 & D70 at http://EdwardGRuf.com Try using the xxd command in terminal. % xxd -l 4 somefile 0000000: 4d4d 002a MM.* Big-endian TIFF is 4d4d002a while little-endian TIFF is 49492a00. It's actually mean to be visually recognizable in a hex dump. "MM.*" for Motorola big-end and "II*." for Intel little-end. |
Thanks for the response. Believe it or not, I am still on dial-up at
home, which makes it difficult FTP between machines since I don't have a network set up where they can both communicate. It would also take forever to send 1 uncompressed NEF over a dial-up connection. I do have space on my work and website servers. I'll try a few files and see if it works. Thanks. Kevin McMurtrie wrote: In article , Ed Ruf wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:37:26 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Kit Bonin wrote: Hi and thanks in advance, I have a problem viewing NEF files on my PC (running Windows XP) after transferring them from my Mac (OSX,10.3). I transfer them by either CD or compact flash card. When I attempt to view them with Nikon Browser by clicking the folder that they are in, the program crashes. If I attempt to open them with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 or 7.0 the program does not crash, but it is unable to read the files. If I convert them to either jpg or tif files prior to transferring them, I have no problem. It seems to be related to the file. I also attempted the transfer using Mac OS9 with the same problems. I have no problems viewing NEF files downloaded straight from my camera (Nikon D100) to my PC. Thanks. NEFs are just specialized TIF files and IIRC at least way back when there was an issue between Macs and PC of big vs little endian, ie whether of not the two 8 bytes pieces were written high or low byte first. Back in those days I used Graphic Converter as it had an option to write either format. Don't know if that would work here. Can you ftp files between machines? ________________________________________________ ________ Ed Ruf Lifetime AMA# 344007 ) See images taken with my CP-990/5700 & D70 at http://EdwardGRuf.com Try using the xxd command in terminal. % xxd -l 4 somefile 0000000: 4d4d 002a MM.* Big-endian TIFF is 4d4d002a while little-endian TIFF is 49492a00. It's actually mean to be visually recognizable in a hex dump. "MM.*" for Motorola big-end and "II*." for Intel little-end. |
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