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How do I import NEF files to Lightroom?

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November 1, 2016
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You have just upgraded my LR 3 to 6 ( without my permission) and I find I can no longer import my NEF files from my NiKON D300.

HOW COULD YOU DO THIS and why should I continue using Adobe products when you adopt such a high handed attitude.. especially when there are other products on the market which will do the job. I now have to buy a card reader etc etc. in the meantime I can import them to iPhotos which converts them to JPEG... but I WANT RAW files.

Yours sincerely

Tim Pearce

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Correct answer timp13769064

Scanner NEF files are generated by a Nikon scanner. Not at all related to NEF files from your camera. Just to clarify, Lightroom 6 is not an upgrade to Lightroom CC. Lightroom 6 is the current standalone version. You might want to try signing out from your creative cloud manager and signing back in to see if that helps with the issue. There is something definitely not right with your computer set up right now, but you need to stick with us. Someone here will probably be able to help resolve the problem.

Incidentally, I shoot with a Nikon D7100. I am using Lightroom CC 2015.7. I have no trouble whatsoever importing and working on my NEF files.

Hi Jess John and others

Thank you so much for trying to help me ... I think I've solved it... very

strange ..there are 35 NEF files on the CF card which LR would not

recognise but iPhoto does. I have put a clean card in and checked the

camera settings. It works fine ... ergo card or camera malfunction.

I must apologise for the hard words ... conspiracy theories gave me a

brainstorm..

Thanks again

Tim

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Stephani L.

Participant

I am having the same issue as the initial post here. I can't see the replies for some reason and would like some help. My desktop crashed which apparently had an older version of lightroom. I downloaded creative cloud and pay the monthly subscription now. This new version of lightroom is telling me the NEF files I'm trying to import aren't supported. How can I fix this??

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Stephani L.

Participant

NEVERMIND!! I feel very stupid right now. My coffee hasn't kicked in. I was trying to import profiles and presets. . buhhh lol thanks anyways!

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Anonymous

I purchased a Nikon3500 - lighter than my D700, wanted this camera for day to day use. I am in the same boat as you. The NEF's will not upload to LR or PS. The JPEGs work. I cannot load them into iPhoto. I am hoping someone has another solution or idea! Even the camera itself cannot send the file! Crazy as I can see the images through my camera.

ManiacJoe

Inspiring

Since the D3500 is a relatively new camera, you probably just need to update your software.

What version of Lightroom are you using?

According to this link

Cameras supported by Camera Raw

you need LR 8.1

(or the current DNG converter)

ManiacJoe

Inspiring

What is the exact wording of the error message you are getting?

Are you directly connecting your camera or using a card reader?

(Using a card reader is best.)

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timp13769064Author

Inspiring

The exact wording is for files that LR tries and fails to import the file

thumbnail is blank apart from the check box which is ticked and the file

name at the bottom and in faint letters in the centre the message is

"Preview unavailable for this file".. the files are the New ones.. the ones

already imported show up in the usual fainter images.

This happened following the "upgrade" implemented on Sunday 30th Oct.

JP Hess

Inspiring

Scanner NEF files are generated by a Nikon scanner. Not at all related to NEF files from your camera. Just to clarify, Lightroom 6 is not an upgrade to Lightroom CC. Lightroom 6 is the current standalone version. You might want to try signing out from your creative cloud manager and signing back in to see if that helps with the issue. There is something definitely not right with your computer set up right now, but you need to stick with us. Someone here will probably be able to help resolve the problem.

Incidentally, I shoot with a Nikon D7100. I am using Lightroom CC 2015.7. I have no trouble whatsoever importing and working on my NEF files.

JP Hess

Inspiring

First of all, you are not talking to Adobe on this forum. We are all just users like yourself. Secondly there is no way that Adobe would automatically upgrade you from Lightroom 3 to Lightroom 6. That is a paid upgrade. What has happened to make you think you have been upgraded to Lightroom 6?

Incidentally, if your raw files would open in Lightroom 3 then they would most certainly open in Lightroom 6 because support is not taken away. It is only added.

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timp13769064Author

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Hello Jim Hess

Thanks for your response..

Apologies .. I run Lightroom CC 2015 and pay monthly . I recently had an

upgrade which was automatic (I assumed it was equivalent to LR 6)... the

fact remains that before this I could download NEF files from my Nikon..

now I can't and according to the spec on the Adobe site they no longer

support NEF files. I assume (again) that this is the reason I can't do this.

This seems prescriptive i.e. millions of Nikon users must be in the same

frustrating straits. This I suppose is a technological advance!

Also there doesn't seem to be any assistance available from Adobe to

explain anything ... not even a "contact us" link.

"Preview Not Available for this file" is not helpful and I didn't even get

that for some test images I ran today.

I note your reply but my note was sent in frustration.. so can you or some

one else post an answer to my question?

Thanks

Tim

Ps There is somewhere a legal question of providing a "paid for" service

or are software companies move such niceties?

John Waller

Community Expert

according to the spec on the Adobe site they no longer
support NEF files.

Your frustration seems to be clouding things here. Don't know where you got that information from on the Adobe website (got a link?) but it's not at all correct.

Adobe still provides vast support for just about every NEF file format made by Nikon.

Full list here: Cameras supported by Camera Raw

The D300 has long been supported since Lightroom 1.3.1 and continues to be supported.

Something else must be going on here.

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