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- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 10.4
- Operating System
- macOS 11 Big Sur
Is there any add-on that allows the Dust-Off reference images that can be generated by Nikon SLRs to be used in Lightroom.
Due to circumstances I had to use an older camera body and never got a chance to clean it properly after a long period of it sitting idle.
As a result I have a batch of pictures badly affected by dust bunnies - I normally just handle dust using the standard Lightroom tools but because this was worse than usual I tried taking a Dust Off Reference image ( an NDF file) and when I use the Nikon software (Capture NX-D and ViewNX-i) it actually does a very good job of fixing the problem. But the corrections are not written back to the RAW (NEFF) file but stored in a sidecar file which is not recognised by Lightroom.
The only way I have found to get the corrected images into Lightroom is to export the files from NiewNX-i as a TIFF, then import the TIFF into Lightroom and then convert to DNG - it works but is slow and the DNGs are much larger than the original NEFs.
Is there any better path that I could use?
Due to circumstances I had to use an older camera body and never got a chance to clean it properly after a long period of it sitting idle.
As a result I have a batch of pictures badly affected by dust bunnies - I normally just handle dust using the standard Lightroom tools but because this was worse than usual I tried taking a Dust Off Reference image ( an NDF file) and when I use the Nikon software (Capture NX-D and ViewNX-i) it actually does a very good job of fixing the problem. But the corrections are not written back to the RAW (NEFF) file but stored in a sidecar file which is not recognised by Lightroom.
The only way I have found to get the corrected images into Lightroom is to export the files from NiewNX-i as a TIFF, then import the TIFF into Lightroom and then convert to DNG - it works but is slow and the DNGs are much larger than the original NEFs.
Is there any better path that I could use?
