Nikon 1 Series in 2023

[VidThreeNorth]

The Sun (In Case You've Forgotten)

Seeing the sun actually has been rare for me the last few weeks, but yeah, it's still there:

 

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Lately I am trying out an old "Nikon 1 S2". This old "Series 1" camera only outputs a JPEG or a NEF (raw) file. It cannot even produce a NEF and a JPEG at the same time, so being forced to chose, I thought I would prefer the NEF files. Currently, I can only view a NEF in the camera view screen or in Darktable 2.6.0. My (old) version of Paintshop Pro does not support it. I tried updating my GIMP to the latest 2.10.34 and that also failed to load it.

As for Darktable, it does not seem to actually create an output file. It only creates an XMP parameter file to assist in creating one, probably in an Adobe program. If anyone knows how to make a JPG using Darktable, that would solve my problem. Since I do not have plans to use this camera much in the near future, I do not want to pay money for support for this particular format at this time.

Any thoughts?

I am including a couple of versions of a camera created JPEG. Looking at the detail crop version, sharpness is pretty good. It seems a bit contrasty to me.

You can try to download this older version of Adobe's DNG converter. This link https://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/dng/win/DNGConverter_11_4_1.exe comes from Adobe's Community Forum. It is supposed to work on Windows 8. After converting to DNG you can then try to convert to JPEG.

 

[VidThreeNorth]

You can try to download this older version of Adobe's DNG converter. This link https://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/dng/win/DNGConverter_11_4_1.exe comes from Adobe's Community Forum. It is supposed to work on Windows 8. After converting to DNG you can then try to convert to JPEG.

Thanks for the suggestion. I downloaded it and looked at it. It doesn't really help me. It just gives me another way to get from A to B. But it might be useful for someone else, so it'll be good to have it available!