The different colors also have different sesitivities. It is quite common that the maximum intensity in a NEF file might be a small area of highlight, and the main body significantly less. NEF files show the raw sensor data, which is linear. Properly exposed photo the NEF looked pretty normal maybe a bit Underexposed photo, it produced dark greenish NEF, but when I took One last thing that I noticed is when I took intentionally an I made a picture of Histograms for previous picture that still isn't shown correctly:įrom the picture above you can see very different histograms on camera and in program. This is the picture (I uploaded NEF to but it got converted to jpg):

OK I'm confused now, I just took another picture and This picture is opened correctly also in RawTherapee. So what do I have to do to load NEF files correctly?

I also tried using the DCP profile file (from Adobes DNG converter) but there was barely any change.Īnyways below is an example of two very similar pictures, the left one was loaded for editing thus showing RAW data, and on the right only a preview (only as thumbnail) which is displayed correctly. I'm fairly sure it's not programs fault because I've seen those kind of issues from other people on other programs. I also know DCP profile files can be used to show the photo in right colors.Īs a beginner I've decided to try post processing of photos on a free program called RawTherapee 4.2.73. I've been reading a bit and I know that an application I open my NEFs with must do some processing to show what camera usually shows on previews. I've just started using RAW/NEF files and came across this problem with dark images.

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