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NEF too dark?

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:00 am
by obelisk
when I shoot indoors on my D80, the camera shows a fine pic. When I move the NEF to Xnview, it shows up much darker. Is there an issue with how XnV shows raws?
I see the same thing with Pentax raws, but not such a big drop.

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:44 am
by xnview
Do you have tried to change settings for RAW?

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:17 pm
by obelisk
what kind of settings are there?

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:04 am
by xnview
Option/Read-write/Read/RAW

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:54 am
by obelisk
I guess you mean camera RAW not RAW

What does auto brightness do?
I don't know how to set the gamma etc bottom 4 boxes

I tried crazy stuff like brightness 0.1 and it makes no diff to the view..

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:50 am
by xnview
Try 'auto balance' or 'camera balance' or 'auto brightness'

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:57 pm
by obelisk
The Option/Read-write/Read/camera RAW
settings seem to have no effect on NEF and PEF files I have...

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:27 am
by xnview
obelisk wrote:The Option/Read-write/Read/camera RAW
settings seem to have no effect on NEF and PEF files I have...
Could you send me a sample?

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:10 am
by obelisk
Here is a dark nef file
http://www.filedropper.com/dsc2356

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:37 am
by xnview
Option/View/Misc is on half or full size?

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:00 am
by obelisk
is 'embedded thumbnail'

what does that setting mean?



tried other settings, seems no change.

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:04 am
by xnview
obelisk wrote:is 'embedded thumbnail'
what does that setting mean?
It's the jpeg that you see, try 'half size', and change RAW settings

Re: NEF too dark?

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:07 am
by obelisk
thanks. This confuses me. I was seeing the jpeg, but the jpeg is also 100% size? I thought jpeg was only thumbnail size.

I have some Q about settings for RAW
Gamma is 2.2
what's the 'standard' setting for brightness?
what is 'high resolution'