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June 15, 2017
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NIKON D7200 and LIGHTROOM

  • June 15, 2017
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Latest Release of Lightroom does NOT recognise Nikon D7200 NEF (RAW) files. Does anybody else have this issue?  If so, then, how do i get around it please?

I'm a Windows 10 user.

Thanks.

Ian.

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    Terri Stevens
    Legend
    June 16, 2017

    Hi Ian,

    As a test try loading an online NEF file, you can get one for the D7200 from the link below

    Nikon D7200 Review - Thumbnails

    At the top of the page the files for download are jpg , but if you scan down you will see different exposures as NEF files, download a couple of those. I can open them in Photoshop as Camera Raw and also in Lightroom-it will be helpful to know if you can do the same.

    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    June 15, 2017

    Is there any chance you used Nikon Transfer to download the images from the camera?

    Participating Frequently
    June 15, 2017

    Jim,

    Yes. I always use NIKON Transfer to load the images onto the PC.

    Do you know of an issue with teh use of NIKON Transfer?

    Thanks,

    Ian.

    dj_paige
    Legend
    June 15, 2017

    iang72451598  wrote

    Jim,

    Yes. I always use NIKON Transfer to load the images onto the PC.

    Do you know of an issue with teh use of NIKON Transfer?

    Thanks,

    Ian.

    Some versions of Nikon software will cause the symptoms of the file being unreadable by Adobe software. You should transfer the photos from the camera card using Lightroom or your operating system.

    Terri Stevens
    Legend
    June 15, 2017

    As  has been said you need to tell us which version of Lightroom you are using. The D7200 is listed as working with Lightroom 6 so it's puzzling that it doesn't work if that is your version of Lightroom. Nikon camera raw compatibility comes up regularly in the Photoshop forum. For some reason Nikon cameras don't play well with Adobe software. The first thing to try is converting your NEF output into digital negative format DNG. Life would be so much simpler if camera manufacturers just gave users the option to output to DNG on these professional cameras, but most don't-except I think Fuji.

    For Mac

    Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Macintosh : Adobe DNG Converter 9.10.1

    For Windows

    Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Windows : Adobe DNG Converter 9.10.1

    Hopefully that will work, but Nikon Nef sometimes is unaccommodating.

    A while back I came across a YouTube video with a hack for the D7200. Now I don't have a Nikon so have not been able to test this myself , but it definitely works in the video. Trouble is it's slightly more complicated than just feeding files from a camera into Lightroom.

    Take a look below if the Adobe DNG Converter doesn't work.

    What he is doing is actually no more than using a program to edit the EXIF data in each NEF file-specifically changing the name variable of the camera to a five series model. This then allows the modified NEF files to be read by DNG converter and converted. The files then happily open in Photoshop or Lightroom. Sounds a lot of work but it's all done by batch conversion.

    Participating Frequently
    June 15, 2017

    I 'm on Lr 2015.8 Software Release.

    Thanks for the information. I will try the DNG converter option.

    dj_paige
    Legend
    June 15, 2017

    There's no need to try the DNG Converter.

    You do need however, to answer my earlier questions:

    Explain what you mean by "does not recognize". Exactly what happens or doesn't happen? What is the complete unedited word-for-word error message?

    dj_paige
    Legend
    June 15, 2017

    Explain what you mean by "does not recognize". Exactly what happens or doesn't happen? What is the complete unedited word-for-word error message?

    What is the version NUMBER of your Lightroom? I want the number, not words like "up-to-date" or "most recent".

    Participating Frequently
    June 15, 2017

    Lr just displays 'Preview unavailable for this file for each NEF file.

    Lr software release no 2015.10.1

    Thanks for the response.

    dj_paige
    Legend
    June 15, 2017

    Normally when you get this message, it is because you do NOT have a new enough version of Lightroom.

    Can you show us a screen capture of Help->System Info?