Yosemite and RAW (.NEF)

[JRS12]

Thanks! I was able to fix the RAW issue by downloading and installing Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 5.06. (Since what is in Public Beta 2 is newer, it would not show up in Software Update, but I found it online on Softpedia.)

Cool, sounds like an easier solution than mine. Hope Apple fixes their next version of Raw Converter. It's frustrating to have things broken that previously worked fine!

 

[aliensporebomb]

THIS! Driving me nuts.

This has been driving me batty since Yosemite was released and it's definitely a problem:

CPU: 2009 iMac Corei7 with 24 gigs of ram, internal 1 TB drive, external 5 TB array via FW800, 3 different 1.5 TB USB drives. Running Yosemite 10.10.

I take shots on a Nikon D3200 using the v1.03 firmware and write to multiple Class 10 SD cards. One is 64 gig, one is 32 gig and I have another 32 gig.

If I take a JPEG, the problem doesn't exist. If I load shots from my iPhone the jpegs load fine.

If I load a SD card full of .NEFs it literally causes iPhoto to sieze nearly to a halt and parts of the user interface get scrambled by doing so.

If I look at the thumbnails they are either black or half the screen is the image and the other half is black.
If I look at the images itself they are either fully black or cause the user interface to almost hang while reading.

I literally went so far as to back up my 300 gig iPhoto library and start a completely new iPhoto library. I delete iPhoto off my computer altogether, redownloaded and started completely from scratch.

No joy, same crap. 240 JPEGs off my iPhone? No problem. Thumbnails and photos look great. 3 .NEFs from a 64 gig SD card: images are black, thumbnails are black. At least the UI isn't hanging like it did before.

Here's the funny thing: I can take the same SD card and load it on my work Windows PC and the pictures load, store and view fine.

This is a Mac problem. But not everyone is having the issue: my friend with a Nikon D5300 his .NEFs are coming out fine but he's got a brand new Mac Pro so I'd expect that to work.

For once, the Mac is the weak sister and the PC "just works".

I can't download a version of the Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update because the newest one I can download is 5.07 and if I try to install that it claims the one I'm running now is NEWER than that one!

The worst part was the photography section on this board - everyone there had no clue what I was talking about - it's so obvious this is broken.

If I was a commercial photographer I'd have to either dump Mac or go back to Mavericks somehow because this just isn't workable. Ideas?

I even tried to leave iPhoto out of the mess by just reading the .NEFs in the finder but it's obviously a system problem because the files have the same issue in preview.

 

[cjmillsnun]

This has been driving me batty since Yosemite was released and it's definitely a problem:

CPU: 2009 iMac Corei7 with 24 gigs of ram, internal 1 TB drive, external 5 TB array via FW800, 3 different 1.5 TB USB drives. Running Yosemite 10.10.

I take shots on a Nikon D3200 using the v1.03 firmware and write to multiple Class 10 SD cards. One is 64 gig, one is 32 gig and I have another 32 gig.

If I take a JPEG, the problem doesn't exist. If I load shots from my iPhone the jpegs load fine.

If I load a SD card full of .NEFs it literally causes iPhoto to sieze nearly to a halt and parts of the user interface get scrambled by doing so.

If I look at the thumbnails they are either black or half the screen is the image and the other half is black.
If I look at the images itself they are either fully black or cause the user interface to almost hang while reading.

I literally went so far as to back up my 300 gig iPhoto library and start a completely new iPhoto library. I delete iPhoto off my computer altogether, redownloaded and started completely from scratch.

No joy, same crap. 240 JPEGs off my iPhone? No problem. Thumbnails and photos look great. 3 .NEFs from a 64 gig SD card: images are black, thumbnails are black. At least the UI isn't hanging like it did before.

Here's the funny thing: I can take the same SD card and load it on my work Windows PC and the pictures load, store and view fine.

This is a Mac problem. But not everyone is having the issue: my friend with a Nikon D5300 his .NEFs are coming out fine but he's got a brand new Mac Pro so I'd expect that to work.

For once, the Mac is the weak sister and the PC "just works".

I can't download a version of the Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update because the newest one I can download is 5.07 and if I try to install that it claims the one I'm running now is NEWER than that one!

The worst part was the photography section on this board - everyone there had no clue what I was talking about - it's so obvious this is broken.

If I was a commercial photographer I'd have to either dump Mac or go back to Mavericks somehow because this just isn't workable. Ideas?

I even tried to leave iPhoto out of the mess by just reading the .NEFs in the finder but it's obviously a system problem because the files have the same issue in preview.

If you were a commercial photographer you wouldn't be using iPhoto to process your pics, you'd be using either Lightroom or Aperture.

However it would be an issue with Aperture as well because they both use the same system to read the .NEFs.

I am not having the same issues reading .NEF files from my D7000. I can browse them in finder just fine, and just as an experiment, fired up iPhoto and imported them (I generally use Lightroom). Again all was fine.

Are you near an Apple store? They may be able to do something.

 

[aliensporebomb]

Ah!

See this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6524559

The September 8 2014 post by david.haberthuer might be a potential fix. Stand by.

And yes, of course I'd be using Lightroom or Aperture, I'm just a really dedicated amateur.

 

[aliensporebomb]

Confirmed!

The solution described appears to have fixed it on freshly shot raw format photos.