If you chose to shoot JPEG, then in the process of conversion, the raw data is converted and compressed to result in 8-bit JPGs and the raw data used to process the image is embedded in the EXIF.

But when shooting in RAW, Nikon NEF format preserves the raw data as a 12 bit / 14 bit information (depending on your camera features) in a lossy/loss-less/uncompressed/compressed form This data is not the image, just the RAW capture. To see the image you need a RAW converter which can read the NEF files and convert / show them as images. Thus without a RAW converter, a RAW file is pretty much useless. The RAW file retains the in-camera settings for white-balance, sharpness, hues, etc. The RAW files are thus rightly referred to as digital “negatives”, which can be processed and developed by the photographer as per the requirements. The trouble starts once you realize that NEF is a proprietary format. This means it’s Nikons secret RAW format. #Nikon capture nx2 will not open nef files how toĪnd thus others don’t exactly know how to read the NEF RAW format - it’s a guess-work at it’s best. There are so many RAW converters available in the market which have support for the Nikon NEF RAW format. However the truth is that their conversion process tries to guess the image levels, curves, saturation, color-representation. These RAW converters have come to do a pretty impressive job in recent times, however there’s nothing that beats Nikon’s own RAW converter.

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