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I opened a NEF and made a couple of quick adjustments and then did a
“Save as”; I was somewhat surprised that NX2 asked me if I wanted to
over-write the existing file, but I went ahead and said yes, and then
I exited NX2. I still don’t have Lightroom, but I do have PSE-5, and
I had no problem opening the rewritten file with ACR and PSE-5.
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Personally I can’t see any advantage in creating a new NEF, or
over-writing and existing NEF file, once the image has been modified
by NX or NX2. The original data is there if needed, and with NX all
the version you have created are there too, so why create another NEF
file?
Brooks,
Unless I am doing something wrong NX will not automatically save
details of changes into the existing RAW file. You have to save your
changes with Save As or you will lose the changes you have made That
is no problem if you have just tweaked one setting but is a pain if
you have spent 30 minutes carefully PPing a difficult shot.
The program will ask you if you want to overwrite the original out of
an abundance of caution. In fact I "Save As" to a different directory
so I do not get the message unless I reprocess and overwrite.
It might help someone to know that a NEF that has been saved in NX
has a lower case ".nef" extension whereas the original camera file
has a ".NEF" extension. So you can easily tell which you have worked
on and which you have yet to process.
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Chris Elliott
