NIKON D7200 and LIGHTROOM

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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

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

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

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iang72451598Author

Participating Frequently

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

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

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.