Re: [Gimp-developer] Latest Gimp git (git pull today) Opening NEF images

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* Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com> [06-13-14 18:16]:
> Gimp cannot open a D800 NEF image (36 MP) (fuzzy static), partially opens a
> D610 image (24 MP).
>
>  It is able to open a D7000 (16.7MP), D300, D50 NEF images fine.
>
> When the D800 image is converted to TIFF with dcraw, the TIFF of course
> opens fine.
>
> Windows 8.1 64bit 16G RAM etc.

gimp does *not* support proprietary formats, nef is cw by nvidia.  You
need to use ufraw which has a a gimp plugin, at least for linux, to
convert the file to a format gimp can read.  I seem to recall a windows
executable for ufraw *is* available.

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