viewing Nikon D300 images in finder

Hi, Is there anyone out there using Nikon D300 with Mac Book Pro under OSX 10.5.1?
Can you see the thumbnails? Can you see the NEF, TIFF, or PSD files in Finder?
How do you view your photos?
In Finder, if you click on one single pictures, does it close down your external drive and put you back in a clean desktop?
Is there a fix? Is there a work around?
Please help.

Yes: it works find in LR and PS, but what about Finder and iphoto / email?

Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1), Nikon D300 NEF or large size PSD / JPEG files

Posted on Dec 21, 2007 11:21 AM

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Jan 29, 2008 8:06 PM in response to sungyle

I have the same problem on my Mac Pro running on Leopard (10.5.1) and my Macbook Pro running on Tiger (10.4.11). I believe it got to do with the file heading in which the OS does not recognize.

I upgraded my Camera Raw to 4.3.1 and Lightroom to 1.3.1; and that solved my problem. However, if you have Nikon Capture 1.3.1 running on Leopard, you may still cannot view the files in which I do not know why!! But it works on my Tiger.

Let's see what Apple has to say. Maybe Leopard 10.5.2 solves the problem?!

Jan 29, 2008 8:37 PM in response to sungyle

The issue should only occur if you shoot raw. Currently OS X can only display/read certain RAW camera formats. These are OS level, meaning iPhoto, Preview, Mail, Aperture and others are effected. However adobe products are different because they use Adobe Camera RAW.

I would expect JPEGs TIFFs and PSDs, both thumbnails and files, to view fine. RAW files will not view from the D300, but the D200 is supported.

There is no way of knowing when support for the (not-so-)new files will be available. Rumor has it it will be 10.5.2, but only Apple knows that. You can head on over to the Aperture forum and read to see if some have work-arounds.

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