Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Much as a I think VueScan has a GUI design worthy of an early cold-war Soviet design (ie: user hostile), it's ability to save the raw Nikon scan as a DNG file is insanely useful and worth all the rest of the awful design in the application. Just getting the scans into the computer so you can work on them in Photoshop (or other image editor) is the big thing and VueScan will do that without mucking around with the bits and bytes. Adam On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > At 10:12 AM 10/13/2008, you wrote: >> >> I just ordered Lightroom 2. When I get that, I need to check my scanning. >> This image was scanned to TIFF. I still have the opportunity to scan to >> NEF >> format. I think LR2 wants RAW files for more image control. SO if it >> will >> take the file format, I need to rescan, then tweak. >> >> Frank Filippone > > Lightroom won't recognize the NEF files that you get from the Nikon > scanner. > Those are not really camera RAW files but a priority RAW file just for the > scanner. You can get RAW files from the Nikon scanner by using either > Vuescan or Silverfast software. Otherwise, you can import the scanner > files > into Lightroom as DNG files and use that as your RAW. That is probably > your > best option since DNG files are smaller and lossless. > > Good luck. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >