NX Viewer is Nikon’s software, which I use for recipes etc, so it’s always in use. It’s only free editors that don’t seem to support the files, everything else does (such as ON1 Photo Raw, Luminar Neo and DXO).

It is a shame, but quite often free software does take a while to include raw files compatibility. I can shoot on normal raw (not high efficiency) which does work, but Nikon raw files are quite large!

Anyway, more to come soon on the free software, which is compatible with multiple operating systems!

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Hey Mark,

Thanks, much appreciated! Have you tried converting your RAWs with Adobe DNG Converter? The upside is that once you’ve made the switch, your files are basically future-proof, you save space, and they’ll work with almost any software – no more relying on Nikon’s NX Studio (and you know how I feel about dependencies…).
Anyway, you’ve definitely piqued my interest with the new software – can’t wait to check it out.
Thanks again, Mark!
All the best,
Marc

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The biggest thing people forget is that they can try ANY editing software for free! If the software itself is not free, then the paid versions offer free trials. So just download them and give them a go!

I have a problem with Darktable and other free editing software I’ve tried lately, and that is that they do not read Nikon ZF raw files shot in High Efficiency Raw. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time though before they sort it out. I do have a workaround though, using NX Studio as a viewer and opening files from there into Darktable (it converts them to TIFF files seamlessly).

Watch out, as I have discovered a brand new, promising free bit of editing software that I’ll write about very soon!

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