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Nikon Z 9
I have uploaded three sample NEF files created by the Nikon Z 9 camera to https://raw.pixls.us/:
nikon-z9-raw-lossless.nefnikon-z9-raw-compressed-high-quality.nefnikon-z9-raw-compressed-low-quality.nef
The Z 9 does not support uncompressed RAW. The camera knows only "RAW L" with different levels of compression. The compression modes are:
- "loss-less",
- "high efficiency*", and
- "high efficiency",
where the star variant ("*") denotes higher quality a.k.a. less efficient compression.
The images show an X-Rite Color Checker Passport.
I have not touched the files except renaming them for clarity; these come straight out of the camera.
https://onlinemanual.nikonimglib.com/z9/en/15_menu_guide_02_09.html#nef_raw_recording
hi everyone, any timeline on that? Currently limiting myself to jpeg to use dt.
For the time being, one workable solution is to use Rawtherapee – it can at least open the new .NEFs, even if the initial curves are completely off and require tons of adjusting.
Just use the dt development branch, and change cameras.xml as shown here, it's not that complicated really.
Thanks, but I don't want to spend an afternoon griping with DT's build system which has been failing for the entire past week especially that it means a migration of all of the sidecar files with no hope of returning (unless I spend even more time on getting stable + develop builds on my computer in parallel).
Update: it appears that the users are free to tinker with cameras.xml without having to compile the entire app, as this file is shipped separately :) In my case all I needed was to paste the patch from https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed/pull/347/files at the end of /usr/share/darktable/rawspeed/cameras.xml.
One more update: these curves are very inaccurate. I decided to just switch to Nikon's software.
Here are N-RAW video from 2.0 firmaware! Cool! https://forum.grassvalley.com/forum/editors/editing-with-edius/572094-n-raw-from-z9-sample-download
I tried adding that patch but it didn't work. I am using the FTZ II adapter if that makes a difference. The lens doesn't show properly. The lens reports: VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E but it should be: Nikon AF-P Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E ED VR.
Do I need to submit samples?
I tried adding that patch but it didn't work. I am using the FTZ II adapter if that makes a difference. The lens doesn't show properly. The lens reports: VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E but it should be: Nikon AF-P Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E ED VR.
Do I need to submit samples?
Looks there the text you have is in the EXIF data but there are multiple lens strings that could be used....
Nikon 200-500 with FTZ2 :
$ exiftool '/DSC_7126.JPG' | grep -i lens Lens Type : E VR Lens : 200-500mm f/5.6 Lens F Stops : 5.00 Lens Data Version : 0802 Lens Info : 200-500mm f/5.6 Lens Make : Lens Model : VR 200-500mm f/5.6E Lens Spec : 200-500mm f/5.6 E VR Lens ID
Nikon Z 100-400 : $ exiftool 'DSC_7118.JPG' | grep -i lens Lens Type : VR Lens : 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 Lens F Stops : 5.67 Lens Data Version : 0802 Lens Info : 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 Lens Make : NIKON Lens Model : NIKKOR Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S Lens Spec : 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR Lens ID : NIKKOR Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S
Lens detection is an entirely separate issue, please do not add "noise" here. See https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/6317 and https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/10053
~~Edit: please open an issue for Z 9 support over at exiv2 - there is a new "LensData" version 0802 to be added...~~
Support has now been added to exiv2 to read the lens data for the Z 9, in both main and 0.27-maintenance branches.
Edit: Available in exiv2 0.27.6 release.