Which program for converting ".nef" to ".jpg"?

[Papa-san]

All of our vacation photos are in RAW form. They are .NEF files. Is there a program that can convert these into standard formats? (Hopefully in bulk!) Like if I want to send a dozen to Wal-Mart to make prints.

[miss.magenta]

I do believe there is a RAW import plugin for GIMP.

[ajmorris]

hi there,
I dont know about converting the .nef to .jpg...
but you can use ExifTool to extract .jpg data from the raw .nef file:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
(the top download on that page is the linux tarball)

then to use it, the syntax is:

exiftool -b -JpgFromRaw orignal.NEF > output.jpg

Hope that helps

AJ

[kaptengu]

I think you can use Imagemagick.
Try:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

then

convert image.nef image.jpg

Should work.

[KingTermite]

You could also install the "imagemagick" package (in repositories) and use the command line tools, like "convert". It looks like "nef" files are supported.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php

main page:
http://www.imagemagick.org


edit: doh! Kaptengu beat me to it!

[Papa-san]

LOL...

Thanks to all of you! I'll let you know how these ideas work...

[gcs272]

To get imagemagick to work correctly for me (at least for a nikon d40 on 8.10) I had to also install ufraw-batch:

sudo apt-get install ufraw

[madmcphil]

Download RAWTHERAPEE.... worked like a charm for me.... also does batch processing!

[Wim Sturkenboom]

Download RAWTHERAPEE.... worked like a charm for me.... also does batch processing!

I hope Papa-san was not waiting for your answer; after over 2 years he might have forgotten where he stored the photos.

[I2k4]

Reminded me that RawTherapee is available in Linux - I quite like the Windows version and will want to try it in Lubuntu. So two years late for one user is just in time for another.

For anybody else, I recommend the UFRAW rather than DCRAW plug-in for GIMP, that make for seamless processing from RAW through JPEG.