Comments on: Nikon (NEF) RAW Codec for Windows Vista Free Download

By: Damian

Damian — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:56:05 +0000

Thanks - great tip. 2 quick questions- any idea how to make the Nikon Codec display Raw/ NEF files in Windows Explorer ? And how do you make the 32bit version of Photo Gallery the default version ?
Thanks

By: Daryl

Daryl — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:35:52 +0000

You can use the standard Nikon Codec on Vista 64, you just have to make sure you run the 32bit photo gallery and not the 64bit. To do this, run it from the Program Files (x86) directory.

Its the simple!

By: Guy C

Guy C — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:32:27 +0000

Thanks David- works great in Vista 64

By: Jorge Muxica

Jorge Muxica — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:57:59 +0000

Cool!

By: David Blake

David Blake — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:16:00 +0000

We are working on a 64 bit NEF codec for Vista x64.

A free trial of the beta version is available.

http://www.ardfry.com/nef-codec/

By: Axel

Axel — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:25:41 +0000

I guess there is no choice but wait for Nikon to get their act together and release a 64-bit version of the NEF WIC codec.

By: Jorge Muxica

Jorge Muxica — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:46:09 +0000

I am very frustrated by not being able to see thumbnails of my D300 NEFs while I explore in Vista on this most powerful HP6700 notebook I just got. Luckily I am able to work with ViewNX and CaptureNX which absolutely terrific imaging tools that work together well! Meanwhile Adobe PS,lightroom and Corel, which I use too, are behind the eight ball somewhat.. NOTHING’s EASY.. I guess.. anyone have any updates? please advise.

By: Dan Jarvis

Dan Jarvis — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:41:17 +0000

I am still looking for NEF thumbnail support for XP 64 bit. No luck yet. This is ridiculous. It can’t be THAT hard to develop a fix for this…

Let’s go Nikon. Get it together.

By: Drew Noakes

Drew Noakes — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:28:36 +0000

Has anyone found a solution that allows viewing NEF (from a D300) thumbnails in Windows Explorer when running Vista 64-bit.

Also, there’s a newer version available than the one linked to in this article, so visit the page, not the direct download link. Still, it only officially supports Vista 32-bit

By: Mark Duff

Mark Duff — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:57:19 +0000

Hi there, I intalled ViewNX V1.0 (for free) today and it seems to be working fine with Vista 64 bit. Here is the link http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin/nikonusa.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=14370

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:14:59 +0000

Vista? lol
We upgraded from XP to Mac OSX. We use vista on our macs for testing, but our entire 3d/hd video lab runs fine… 64 bit and supports just about every raw format (nef included) even in preview. hmmm… though without pc, we never would have been able to start the business, since macs used to be a joke until around 1999.

By: Mark Duff

Mark Duff — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:25:08 +0000

Nikon Capture NX works great with Vista 64 bit and is the best tool, in my opinion, for NEF file manipulation.

By: Mark Duff

Mark Duff — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:23:28 +0000

Nikon Capture NX works great with Vista 64 bit and is the best tool in my opinion for NEF file manipulation.

By: Carlos Echenique

Carlos Echenique — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:23:23 +0000

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 supports RAW processing on Vista X64 and has an excellent workflow. Bibble pro works as well.

By: mrjamesbound

mrjamesbound — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:15:46 +0000

A luck, RawShooter work on Vista 64…

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:25:15 +0000

I have not been able to find any software anywhere that supports Vista 64 bit and Nikon RAW image processing.

Even RAW image viewing seems nigh on impossible. Google’s Picassa sort of works- you can view RAW images but Picassa insists that the RAW images are 700kb in size when in reality they are 5mb each. As a result, in Picassa there is no perceived or actual quality difference between a RAW image and JPEG- what a shame.

I’ve installed Adobe Photoshop CS2 and that doesnt work either- I tried their RAW plugin from version 3 to 3.9 and none of them work ! Adobe’s website says that 64 bit RAW processing is not supported in CS3 and will not be supported in the near future.

Where does that leave me ??? I have thousands of RAW images that I cant even view let alone edit !!!