NEF transfer from Mac OSX or OS9 to Windows XP

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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:37:26 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Kit Bonin
<cb683@columbia.edu> wrote:

>Hi and thanks in advance,
>
>I have a problem viewing NEF files on my PC (running Windows XP) after
>transferring them from my Mac (OSX,10.3). I transfer them by either CD
>or compact flash card. When I attempt to view them with Nikon Browser by
>clicking the folder that they are in, the program crashes. If I attempt
>to open them with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 or 7.0 the program does not crash,
>but it is unable to read the files. If I convert them to either jpg or
>tif files prior to transferring them, I have no problem. It seems to be
>related to the file. I also attempted the transfer using Mac OS9 with
>the same problems. I have no problems viewing NEF files downloaded
>straight from my camera (Nikon D100) to my PC. Thanks.

NEFs are just specialized TIF files and IIRC at least way back when
there was an issue between Macs and PC of big vs little endian, ie
whether of not the two 8 bytes pieces were written high or low byte
first. Back in those days I used Graphic Converter as it had an option
to write either format. Don't know if that would work here. Can you
ftp files between machines?
________________________________________________________
Ed Ruf Lifetime AMA# 344007 (Usenet@EdwardG.Ruf.com)
See images taken with my CP-990/5700 & D70 at
http://EdwardGRuf.com

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Thanks for the response. Believe it or not, I am still on dial-up at
home, which makes it difficult FTP between machines since I don't have a
network set up where they can both communicate. It would also take
forever to send 1 uncompressed NEF over a dial-up connection. I do have
space on my work and website servers. I'll try a few files and see if it
works. Thanks.



Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

> In article <buhot05heh6alcf7jbaogaha09e29b0ofa@4ax.com>,
> Ed Ruf <egruf_usenet@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:37:26 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Kit Bonin
>><cb683@columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi and thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>I have a problem viewing NEF files on my PC (running Windows XP) after
>>>transferring them from my Mac (OSX,10.3). I transfer them by either CD
>>>or compact flash card. When I attempt to view them with Nikon Browser by
>>>clicking the folder that they are in, the program crashes. If I attempt
>>>to open them with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 or 7.0 the program does not crash,
>>>but it is unable to read the files. If I convert them to either jpg or
>>>tif files prior to transferring them, I have no problem. It seems to be
>>>related to the file. I also attempted the transfer using Mac OS9 with
>>>the same problems. I have no problems viewing NEF files downloaded
>>>straight from my camera (Nikon D100) to my PC. Thanks.
>>
>>NEFs are just specialized TIF files and IIRC at least way back when
>>there was an issue between Macs and PC of big vs little endian, ie
>>whether of not the two 8 bytes pieces were written high or low byte
>>first. Back in those days I used Graphic Converter as it had an option
>>to write either format. Don't know if that would work here. Can you
>>ftp files between machines?
>>________________________________________________________
>>Ed Ruf Lifetime AMA# 344007 (Usenet@EdwardG.Ruf.com)
>>See images taken with my CP-990/5700 & D70 at
>>http://EdwardGRuf.com
>
>
> Try using the xxd command in terminal.
>
> % xxd -l 4 somefile
>
> 0000000: 4d4d 002a MM.*
>
>
> Big-endian TIFF is 4d4d002a while little-endian TIFF is 49492a00. It's
> actually mean to be visually recognizable in a hex dump. "MM.*" for
> Motorola big-end and "II*." for Intel little-end.