ekke wrote:Meanwhile I found the reason for my problems. I had used "Picture Project" for the transfer from the D80 to the computer, so without much thinking I also used it for the transfer from the D300. Picture Project transferred the images as usual, was able to dispaly them, even the portrait format ones and also was able to make a slideshow. So I thought, there could not be anything wrong with that. However, there was. Obviously Picture Project did not transfer some information the other programs needed to interpret images correctly as portrait format. Yesterday evening I installed "Nikon Transfer" from the CD coming with the camera, and it did not work either (version 1.0 did not even recognize the camera when I conected it to the computer. I really could hate Nikon for that! They may have other priorities but I think it is not too much to expect that when I buy a brand new, expensive camera, the software coming with it should fuction without being forced to search for updates on the net. Or am I just too naive?). Today, I searched for updates and found that meanwhile there was a version 1.2. I downloaded and installed it and all of a sudden it worked. The images downloaded with Nikon Transfer 1.2 were interpreted by both Capture NX and Capture One, and the programs did not crash anymore. Well, finally it works, but it cost me three evenings to get things straigt....
And there is one problem left: I still have more than hundred portrait format NEF images transferred with Picture Project which I cannot convert into JPG. Any ideas how to do that?
Thanks to Tom and everyone else who cared to think about my problems.
Cheers,
Eckhart
Well, that's good news & bad news. At least you won't have problems from now on.
Okay... Since I'm not a Mac user, please overlook my ignorance, but at least updates helped it seems. Needing updates is actually fairly common, and some programs which are loaded from CD's ask if you want to update, others not. Installation can sometimes be time consuming though, and we pass without thinking, or miss it entirely. I really don't think Nikon is alone if it's not automatic. Canon releases updates fairly often, and they're not done automatically. I guess they figure it's free, so you can check to find them. Once you have problems, they know you'll find them!
"Picture Project" is yet another program I've never used. So are you saying it doesn't convert the files to any other format, such as TIFF? Surely that can't be!
If it converts to TIFF, then you should be able to convert to jpg from there. If not, search again and see if there's a plug in which will work with it, or one of your other programs. Sometimes it's a pain, but until file types are made standard we'll have to put up with it.
Still thinking someone else will come in the thread??