Aperture 3.4.5 will not show NEF files after importing in OSx 3.8.5

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Aperture 3.4.5 will not show NEF files after importing in OSx 3.8.5

Hi this is driving me crazy. I have quite a few NEF files from a Nikon E5000 that I would love to be able to process using Aperture but have run into a rather difficut situation. When I import my images into Aperture I can see the preview of the files in the browser but can not get them to display after they have been imported. I have tried importing localy through the internal hard drive on my IMac late 2007 as well as through an external NTFS formated USB backup of my files. It also chokes on direct imprting from the CF card using a card reader. In all cases they will sometimes display for a brief second both in the picture browser after importing or on the film strip view but will then disapear and display "unsupported image format" in its place. I have reinstalled aperture and run both repair persissions through disk utility and the aperture repair utility that ships with aperture. I have no problems with canon raw files or other file formats - jpg, tiff, png, photoshop, bmp. Also NEF files will open in lightroom 5 and photoshop cs6 with out issue as well.

Any help in restoring functionility would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the time and effort in advance.

Que Too

Aperture 3, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), Late 2007 IMac

Posted on Oct 26, 2013 3:04 AM

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Que Too Author

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Oct 26, 2013 9:28 PM in response to Que Too

Update. I updated to Mavericks and still have the same issue after getting the 3.5 aperture update along with the Camera RAW Update. When I switch to a file provided from a tutorial that is nef format from a newer Nikon Camera it works. I also can import, view and manipulate all nef files with Lightroom 5. Any help out there?

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léonie

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Oct 26, 2013 11:38 PM in response to Que Too

Nikon E5000

Do you mean a NIkon CP 5000 (Coolpix 5000)? Aperture supports many raw formats, but not all, because the raw support has to be camera specific. Not all NEF files are in the same format - all Nikon cameras will call their raw files NEF.

For some cameras Aperture never included raw support. The currently supported cameras are listed here:

http://www.apple.com/aperture/specs/raw.html

It looks like your camera is not on this list, so if you want to shoot raw with that camera, develope the raw files using a different raw converter (Adobe's dng converter or the suftware that came with your camera) and import tiff or dng files to Aperture.

Regards

Léonie

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Que Too Author

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Oct 31, 2013 1:33 AM in response to léonie

Update:

It appears that any NEF's from the Nikon CP5000 camera that have been converted to DNG will not work with aperture either. So TIFF or photoshop files are the only remaining options. If anybody has anything further to add please feel free to do so.

Que

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