Unsupported format error when importing a Sony or Nikon RAW file

Unsupported format error when importing a Sony or Nikon RAW file



If you get this error when importing a Sony RAW (ARW) or Nikon RAW (NEF) from any of the new cameras from these manufacturers, it is because the new lossless compression format that both Sony and Nikon have introduced in their latest camera models is not yet supported by Nebulb.

The other Sony and Nikon RAW formats (uncompressed or lossy compression) can be imported directly.


In case you have already captured your photos in this format, I recommend that you convert them first to DNG to be able to import them later in Nebulb without losses.

And for the next photos you are going to capture for processing in Nebulb, you can set the camera in a RAW mode other than lossless compressed (to avoid having to do a conversion prior to importing into Nebulb).






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