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Mitch Alland
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It's happened to me twice: when I've had some 12-14 "steps" in NX the file has become corrupted and cannot be opened in NX, which just keeps hanging with a spinning ball on a Mac. Trying to open these files in LightZone I get an image of some diagonals: clearly these NEF files have been corrupted.
This is when I realized that, unlike Silkypix or LightZone, which keep it's adjustments in a separate file and never touch the RAW file, NX uses the brain-dead approach of savings all its processing step in the original NEF file; and I was brain dead for not having worked on copies. Given the flakey nature of NX it is essential to make a copy of the original NEF file and to work only on that.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there any way of extracting the original RAW file element from the files that NX has butchered? Any tool for doing this? I must say that this is an irresponsible way to design a program of this nature!
—Mitch/Tsumeb, Namibia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/
This is when I realized that, unlike Silkypix or LightZone, which keep it's adjustments in a separate file and never touch the RAW file, NX uses the brain-dead approach of savings all its processing step in the original NEF file; and I was brain dead for not having worked on copies. Given the flakey nature of NX it is essential to make a copy of the original NEF file and to work only on that.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there any way of extracting the original RAW file element from the files that NX has butchered? Any tool for doing this? I must say that this is an irresponsible way to design a program of this nature!
—Mitch/Tsumeb, Namibia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/