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Q: Apple Photos - Import RAW + JPG

Hello to this great community,

 

I am using a Nikon D80 DSLR. Camera-settings are on highest resolution and NEF (RAW) + JPEG (Fine). On the sd-card there are now two different files of each photo: a .nef and a .jpg. Yesterday I try an import of both file-types from the sd-card to Apple-photos via Macbook-Pro-Card-Reader. I opened Apple photos, choose "import" - and saw only the JPG's for this import. How can I import also the RAW-files? Do I missed a setting?

 

Greetings from Germany

 

Roland

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Oct 8, 2016 11:06 PM

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  • by Subwaybar,

    Subwaybar Subwaybar Oct 9, 2016 5:39 AM in response to Subwaybar
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    Oct 9, 2016 5:39 AM in response to Subwaybar

    Hello again,

     

    after searching the Internet again, I've found the solution: That file-pair NEF+JPEG is already imported by the "Photos"-app independently. However, only the JPEG file is displayed (recognizable by the small box with the "J" in the lower left corner of the image) - go to this litte "J" box with the cursor (no click): In my case the following discription appears: "RAW + JPEG: JPEG is the original". In the "shadow" of the "J"-box you can see a second box, which should indicate the RAW-box. The RAW file is actually also imported, but not visible and can not be called as an original (grayed out) via the menu item "Image". To switch from JPEG to RAW, proceed as follows:

     

    1. Double click on the preview-image to open it.

    2. Click "Edit" above the right side of the picture (do not click on the menu-field with the same name in the upper menu-line - indeed, this is confusing). The editing options appears (Improve, Rotate, Crop, Filter etc.)

    3. Click on "Image" in the menu line and now you can call the previously grayed command "Use RAW as original".

    4. Complete the "Edit" with "Finish". Now the image in the small box in the lower left corner has an "R".

    5. If necessary, you can also undo all this - in the same way.

     

    If you want to use all the photos with the RAW-file as the original - this could costs a lot of time (I didn't find a way, to do so for all files at once). But this is probably not necessary, since only a few images become better than the existing JPEG's with RAW-editing.

     

    Kind regards

     

    Roland