Sony NEX-3 Raw Support

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Sony NEX-3 Raw Support

How is it possible that Aperture 3 does not support the raw format of the Sony NEX-3 camera? It's one of the hottest DSLR available right now do to it's compact size and has been on the market for nearly 6 months. No RAW support?

I'd rather take my camera back than have to switch to lightroom which added support 3 months ago…

Any suggestions? Anyone else have this camera? What can I do? I need a temporary work around, I MUST shoot in raw.

i7 devices, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 9, 2010 3:09 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 11, 2010 3:54 PM in response to Court Kizer

You could batch convert the files with Adobe Camera Raw to DNG, or maybe the software provided will convert them DNG for you. http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/

I currently have a bunch of files that I converted to DNG from NEF when I was using Lightroom, and Aperture 3 reads them just fine.

I know its a extra step, but until apple release a update to their RAW engine its a solution.

Bill Debevc
sshaphotos.com

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Answer 2

Jul 13, 2010 9:29 PM in response to Bill at sshaPhotos

Except that the DNG converter seems to not recognize photos of the .ARW type as produced by the NEX series of cameras.

Graphic Converter can open the .ARW files, but they come in looking washed out and muddy and are difficult to restore.

I have used the supplied Sony "Image Data Converter" software, and there is third-party software that I have yet to try.

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