😀įast Picture Viewer had graciously made the previous version of the standalone codec available for free to download and use as a donation-ware. And thankfully, there’s a free option too. So I’d no choice but to search and see if there are any 3rd party codecs that supports the NEF format for the WIC (Windows Imaging Component) in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 and Vista.Īfter a quick Google search, it seems that there are two main options to choose from. Perhaps, they’re just too lazy to recompile their codec to support 64-bit systems. But alas, Nikon’s just too ignorant to this. An annoying addition to my photo editing workflow, but hey, whatever works, works.įast forward to today, and with Windows 7 now being my operating system of my workstation, I decided to search again to see if Nikon have finally decided to release a 64-bit version of their NEF codec now that almost everyone’s going to be on 64-bit since most machines today are equipped with 4GB of RAM at the very minimum. Instead, I just opted to use a photo viewer application, Picasa to be specific, to browse through my camera’s RAW files to pick the ones that I’d like to edit and move on from there. And since I installed the 64-bit version of Vista on my desktop workstation since it has 4GB of RAM, I’ve not been able to view the thumbnails of my NEF files.

Fixed an issue that prevented files in the Recycle Bin being restored to their original locations after the NEF Codec was installed.It’s known that Nikon (stupidly if you’d ask me) choose to not release a 64-bit version of the NEF codec. This codec will occupy some space on your computer, since only the installing file is ~160MB, but it is worth deploying it on your computer if you work with the NEF format.

NEF Codec is a must for any Nikon camera owner and it is useful for anyone who comes in contact with the NEF format (Nikon Raw Image files). and digital compact cameras (COOLPIX A, COOLPIX 8800, COOLPIX 8700, COOLPIX 8400, COOLPIX 5700, COOLPIX 5400, COOLPIX 5000). mirrorless cameras (Z 7II, Z 6II, Z 7, Z 6, Z 5, Z 50) advanced cameras with interchangeable lens (Nikon 1 J5, Nikon 1 J4, Nikon 1 J3, Nikon 1 J2, Nikon 1 J1, Nikon 1 V3, Nikon 1 V2, Nikon 1 V1, Nikon 1 S1, Nikon 1 AW1) NEF Codec supports a variety of Nikon cameras: NRW Codec enables you to work easily with Nikon RAW (.NRW) images.

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