shooting Raw on Nikon D80

Today I had a shoot and I shot in RAW. I would like to know how do I get the images out of my camera that are in RAW and put them into my computer.

You download them exactly as you would the JPGs. At that point your software takes over. The best way of course is to get a card reader and do it that way, but your camera interface will work as long as you use a charged battery. I have never used PictureProject, so I don't know how that works, but both Photoshop and Capture NX have Browsers that will let you preview the shots.

At this point, you probably need to read up a little bit on the software you have.
Good luck!
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Rog

Ron,

I had to rub my eyes in disbelief. Your profile lsits you as a professional photographer!

You offload them same way as jpegs.

You can view them in Windows Fax and Picture Viewer if you download the add on but that is slow.

I use Irfanview for quick viewing and sorting. That reads the JPEG embedded in the NEF

For processing rather than viewing there is no substitute for NX which should come as a free 30 day trial with the camera.

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Thanks for the response.

I found out how to convert RAW into JPEG by using Capture NX before getting back on here and looking at the response.

It took the whole day just to get the pictures downloading to my computer.

RonDeVilla said:

It took the whole day just to get the pictures downloading to my
computer.

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I'd use a card reader. You can get a decent USB 2.0 multi-card reader (supports more than one cared type) $20 or less anymore. I'd make sure any reader you get supports SDHC (most don't). Here is one inexpensive reader that supports SDHC (see the "Data Sheet" tab):

http://www.kingston.com/flash/15in1.asp

Even without a card reader, your camera probably shows up under "My Computer" as a removable drive. So, you don't need software to copy the images from it.

Just click on the drive associated with the camera, click on the folders until you get to the one that has your images, select them (Edit> Select All) and copy them (Edit> Copy). Then, select a folder on your PC that you want to copy them to and use Edit> Paste.

IOW, they're just files, and you can copy or move them around from your camera (or a card reader) just like you can move files around from any other drives or folders your PC has access to.

As for raw conversion, in addition to Nikon Capture, there are many other alternatives. Some are even free. Here are a couple of free raw converters that you may want to look at:

http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/

http://www.rawtherapee.com/download.html

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JimC
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Your camera looks like it's so fast over USB, you probably don't need a card reader. lol

See Phil's tests for USB transfer times. It can transfer at around 8.8MB/Second in Mass Storage Compliant mode.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond80/page12.asp

If it took you all day to transfer your images, you're probably doing something wrong (or trying to use software to do it, versus just copying the files as mentioned in my first post to this thread), or you have a USB 1.1 interface in your PC (and most modern PCs will have USB 2.0 ports).

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JimC
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Hi Ron,

You can use ToneUp S3 to transfer the raw images and process them into jpgs.

Hope that helps

Todd
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Thanks for the response everyone.

I actually used Capture NX, first time used so it only let me upload 20 images at a time and I actually had about 100 shots the other day. Sucked that I had to get the images done for my friend, but oh well its just practice for job related deadlines due the next day for future references.