All manufacture's proprietary Raw formats change with each body release. Nothing new, nor bad, nor fault of the manufacture - that is just part of progress with new sensors.

Just because the "web" is full of claims, doesn't make it the correct claim. Many times it is just that many are understandably looking at the source of the change being the issue, not the fact that you are using a third party software that must change not the manufacture.

Tao, thanks for getting on to this and I will have another go at setting the colour profile import settings in Lightroom, though I did think I had tackled everything back to simple defaults and made sure auto-tone on import was turned off, along with anything else I thought could have been the problem.
It seems strange though that I do not get this problem if I convert the same file to DNG or Tif then import into Lightroom with the identical Lightroom settngs. This fact is what leads me to think it is the D7000 NEF format!
Anyway I am off to make some dinner and will hop back on to try your kind suggestions.
Thanks again for your help.

At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried a two button reset on the D7000

If not, then why not just convert to DNG

I far as I can see, the only disadvantage in converting to DNG, is you cannot use all all the functions of Nikon Capture NX2 should want to use it at a later date

Hate to tell you Stuart, but you're putting blame on the wrong culprit. What you are describing is not a Nikon issue. It is an issue you have with your settings in Lightroom or you need to update your software. Look at Adobe's site to figure out your import settings. I did something similar with my X100 (by the way it sounds), can't tell you what I did wrong, but I followed the Adobe guides and it set it straight. Adobe is just applying the incorrect color/profile to the images. It has nothing to do with Nikon.

jonnyaple and sevencrossing, thanks for feedback and will address both at the same time if you do not mind as is more efficient.
Then net is awash with the problems with the D7000 raw conversion and probably only D7000 users are experiencing this. I note the total absence of any official comment from Nikon on this fexing problem and would love to know what they have done differently with the raw files generated in the D7000 compared with the D90, my old camera.
As I stated in my first post, you can not set up a preset as each image behaves differently. I naturally, less work flow, stay with NEF though if I convert to DNG or TIF then the files import perfectly into Lightroom with much the same coulour rendition between Raw and Jpeg, as they always used to behave with my D90 NEF files.
It is not Lighroom, as I can take the same photo with my D90 and it behaves normally in Lighroom with exactly the same Lighroom settings.
You mention sending example pics but I am not sure on how, or where, to post pics??
Thanks for getting involved.
Stu

jonnyapple said:
Stuart, welcome to the forum. ........

You may try changing the default profile applied on import..

I agree with Jonnyapple have a look the profile you are using on import

I don't use a D7000 ( I use a D700) but like many others Nikon users , I do use LR and have no issues with NEF files

PS are you converting to DNG or staying with NEF

and Stuart, welcome to NR

Stuart, welcome to the forum. Do you have samples of the bad processing? I made exactly the same upgrade and never noticed anything amiss in LR3.

You may try changing the default profile applied on import—mess with the sliders just once to where you like them, the tell lightroom to use those settings as the new starting point for D7000 NEFs.

I, like many, many others feel betrayed by Nikon in their decision to alter their raw format in the d7000 to be useless in Adobe Lightroom and cs3. Lightroom and cs are by far the major software used for post editing and the D90 Raw was fine but D7000 has, and remains for me a nightmare. To suggest converting to other formats to enable use of these Adobe programs is stupid in the extreme when dealing with serious workloads, and the argument of suggesting Adobe are to blame is also stupid, as Nikon has caused this situation. Lightroom 3.3 with RAW6.3 import D7000 but boy even with auto settings, levels etc. the result is very, very bad compared to the smooth result that I am used to when I import my D90 RAW files. Yes you spend your life by fiddling with the million sliders, but this in a massive work load and presets will trip you up as each photo can display very different after a preset.
No Nikon, people with massive investment and training are not likely to turn to your less useful software and please do the honourable thing for us loyal Nikon users and give us a solution that allows us to use our Adobe products

freddy_dorji said:
hey guys. first of all i own a d7000. could anyone tell my why my iphoto does not read my RAW pictures????? i always have to convert them one by one from Raw to jpeg :( if i could only transfer them straight as raw and tweak them as raw images. thank you guys :)

Hi,

I'm not a macinitte, but you should check to see if your software is up to date for 14-bit RAW files or needs an update to read the NEF files.

My best,

Mike

hey guys. first of all i own a d7000. could anyone tell my why my iphoto does not read my RAW pictures????? i always have to convert them one by one from Raw to jpeg :( if i could only transfer them straight as raw and tweak them as raw images. thank you guys :)

Aperazzo said:
@ rbid:

Thanks but I got that already. ;-) Was being a bit cynical about OutlierINCs wish to shoot in RAW and than want the camera to convert those RAW/ NEFs to JPEG. If you want that you might as well shoot JPEG in the first place. If you ask me...

Got the D7000 and the D90 myself. Used to shoot in JPEG then figured I should really shoot NEF *and* JPEG only to realise after a while that I never used the NEFs, just the JPEGs. And as I noticed the NEFs were best to use, I started using my NEFs to tweak in Lightroom. Kept shooting NEF and JPEG till it then dawned on me I was now doing nothing with the -camera- JPEGs except store them on a HDD together with the NEFs... That did it for me and I have been shooting only NEF ever since. Except perhaps for when I'm at some event and I fear I'll run out of SD cards before I'm running out of things to shoot...

Once you discover the power or RAW files, you may not go back to JPEG :)

I guess that common sense is required when to shot one format or/and the other format.

@ rbid:

Thanks but I got that already. ;-) Was being a bit cynical about OutlierINCs wish to shoot in RAW and than want the camera to convert those RAW/ NEFs to JPEG. If you want that you might as well shoot JPEG in the first place. If you ask me...

Got the D7000 and the D90 myself. Used to shoot in JPEG then figured I should really shoot NEF *and* JPEG only to realise after a while that I never used the NEFs, just the JPEGs. And as I noticed the NEFs were best to use, I started using my NEFs to tweak in Lightroom. Kept shooting NEF and JPEG till it then dawned on me I was now doing nothing with the -camera- JPEGs except store them on a HDD together with the NEFs... That did it for me and I have been shooting only NEF ever since. Except perhaps for when I'm at some event and I fear I'll run out of SD cards before I'm running out of things to shoot...

If you want/need both RAW and JPEG, then the easiest solution is to shoot both, then no conversion is necessary. With D7000 you can point the RAW to card 1 and the jpeg to card 2. This makes sorting things out in post much easier too.

I do this with the #2 card being an eye-fi card. Those jpegs are small, low res so they transfer very fast to my phone or iPad and they are more than enough for posting up to Facebook for sharing. Has the added advantage that they aren't high enough res to be worth stealing. Then the RAW I can use for anything I want to print.

Aperazzo said:
RAW files = the exact sensor data, correct? So converting RAW into JPEG in camera is done by shooting JPEGs in the first place, right?

Or am I now being too smart for my own good???

By the way: you'd be amazed what you can do with FastStone Image Viewer...

In theory a RAW file should contain the sensor data before it is processed by the camera, but each manufacturer has a different way to save this data, some do some manipulation before saving the RAW file.

A NEF file (Nikon Electronic Format) is the one Nikon cameras produce, that stores the sensor data together with the settings you had in the camera when you took the photo.

Via the Retouch Menu on the D7000 you can create a JPEG copies of NEF photographs. (RTFM, page 258).

If you shot JPEG, you can't get back to the NEF file if this is what you asked before.

If you look for a simple image viewers, I prefer the old trusty IrfanView which is a free fast tool that supports a large list of image formats, the provided plugins even support the D7000 NEF files :)

just use RAW+JPEG as that's the only automatic option You can do

RAW files = the exact sensor data, correct? So converting RAW into JPEG in camera is done by shooting JPEGs in the first place, right?

Or am I now being too smart for my own good???

By the way: you'd be amazed what you can do with FastStone Image Viewer...

OutlierINC said:
Quick question, i know that of taken one at a time, you can change Raw files to JPG in camera, but is there a way to do this as a batch?

Cheers!

Outlier Imagery

Not in camera, but you can do it on several tools that could run on the computer you download the photos, starting from the free Nikon ViewNX up to expensive tools from Adobe.

Edit: After RTFM (Reading the Fantastic D7000 Manual), you can create JPEG images from a NEF file on-board (in the camera) by using the Retouching Menu, look on page 258).. but what you can't do on-board is to run a batch translation process for a bunch of NEF files that exist already on the SD card.. or you do the translation one by one as explained in the manual, or you download the NEF files to a computer and use a tool to translate them.

You can batch process RAW to jpg in Adobe Bridge very easily.

I think it's under Tools/Photoshop/Image processor

maybe shoot in RAW + jpeg?

nope, not in camera. Why would you want to shoot in RAW and then batch process in camera? Defeats the purpose in shooting RAW.

You can use LR3 to batch process all your RAW to JPEG.

No

Quick question, i know that of taken one at a time, you can change Raw files to JPG in camera, but is there a way to do this as a batch?

Cheers!

Outlier Imagery