Why are my data files in .TIF format (1 Viewer)

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GMS

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• Jan 25, 2010

• #1

I took some images today with my old Nikon 4500. When I got home I plugged the camera into the PC and tried to download the pics only to find that there were 4 data files (jpeg) on the card. I looked at the pics on camera and could see about 30 pics, all of them them in the .tif format (apart from the 4 jpegs mentioned before). Don't know what happened there but how can I download these images if they are not recognised by the PC ?

Also can I convert .tif into .jpeg ?

 

Derry

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• Jan 25, 2010

• #2

what photo software do you have that you are trying to download with,,??

here is a very good free one,, FastStone,, would download it and see how it can off load your photos,, I know it will recognize tiffs from my D300

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm

yes most software can save a tiff to jpeg,,

Derry

 

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GMS

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• Jan 25, 2010

• #3

Thanks Derry. I usually just plug the camera into the PC. The camera then pops up as a drive and I can copy the files over. The weird thing here is that only the jpegs will be recognised that way. The Tifs I only can see if I watch the files on the back of the camera.

 

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GMS

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• Jan 25, 2010

• #4

Managed to download them now via my multi-media viewer. Still don't know how i managed to switch format but never mind.

 

Derry

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• Jan 26, 2010

• #5

some of the PCs software will only handle the jpeg format,, for the raw and Tiff format as new cameras come out they normally new new software additions to handle the cameras format,, seems it is never ending,,

good that ya got it working,,

Derry