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    Hi all! My new D7000 just came in. I'm using CS4/ACR5.0, which can't read the newer NEF RAW files from the D7000. Is there a plugin or something I can download to make ACR recognize these files, or do I have to upgrade to CS5, just to be able to edit them?
    I'm amazed that Nikon only ships the NX Viewer with this camera, and not a RAW editor.

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    You need the latest version of ACR which can be downloaded from the Adobe site. Not sure if it will work with CS4, you might be forced to update to CS5 but try it

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    Thanks Bob, for your swift reply! I'll have a go at it.

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    Hi Bob, no luck downloading the ACR 6 plugin. It will only work on CS5......

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    Jerry- You have been caught between the shenanigans Adobe and the software-ineptness of Nikon. Your camera should come with software to decode proprietary RAW images, full-stop. With all its warts (and it has some IMO), Canon ships Digital Photo Professional with every body and allows you to at least decode the Canon RAW image and save as TIFF/JPEG or xfer to Photoshop. Nikon should do the same.

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    Hi John, thanks for your response and for teaching me a new English word for me (shenanigans, sometimes English expresses so much better than Dutch!)! And I totally agree. Even my relatively cheap consumer Panasonic bridge camera came with software decoding and editing it's RAW files. I think it's lousy that Adobe doesn't provide a plugin for CS4. CS5 has only been out for a year or so? And CS4 is still being sold at several shops! I'll bet they announce CS6 as soon as I upgrade to CS5 .

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    Jerry

    If nothing else you can download DNG from Adobe.
    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...jsp?ftpID=4923

    from there you can work in CS4.

    Bill

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    are you sure the camera didn't come with Nikon's own View NX2? You can certainly download it from the Nikon site and it gives you a certain amount of control over RAW. It would surely be amazing if Nikon's own free RAW processor didn't support the D7000.

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    Hi Geoff, it came with View NX2 and I can view and download the RAW files from the camera, but I'm not aware of any editing capabilities or an export function for PS. If I've overlooked something, please let me know!
    Thanks Bill, I'll have a look into the DNG loop. It seems compatible with CS4 and ACR5.0.
    Thank you all for responding!

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    Jerry, in NX2 you can apply white balance, exposure, shadow/highlight and some colour changes to the RAW files, then if you use the 'convert files' option you can save the file with changes in another format, e.g. JPEG, from which you could move to PS. It's not as smooth as ACR, but at least you can get started.

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    Thanks Geoff!

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    Never use jpegs except for web presentation. I know Geoff was only using it as an example of another format, and thats all, but it turns out to be a very bad example. Tiff would be the format of choice.
    Yes, you would need to upgrade to CS5 to use ACR 6. Although upon discovering this I was pretty upset with Adobe. I now think it is well worth it. ACR6 which has significant improvements over ACR5 such as much better NR and CS5 is such a major improvement over CS4 that it completely justifies the upgrade price.
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    Thanks Bill, I think I'll take the easy way and just upgrade. I can get a special discount through my employer, so my financial loss will be somewhat limited .

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    Quote Originally Posted by William Malacarne View Post
    Jerry

    If nothing else you can download DNG from Adobe.
    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...jsp?ftpID=4923

    from there you can work in CS4.

    Bill
    Yes, that's exactly what I had to do until I upgraded to lightroom3.

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    Hi all, thanks again for the help. I'm now back in business using the latest DNG converter from Adobe (my employer decided not to support my PS purchases any longer). Not ideal, but a pretty good solution to maintain acces to newer RAW files with older PS versions. It converts all RAW files in a directory automatically to DNG's, which can then be edited in ACR, so it hardly costs extra time.

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