Nikon Coolpix 2500. Process RAW data.

RAW to DNG converter converts native raw data of some digital still cameras to DNG format. DNG is Digital Negative format from Adobe. It is supported by Adobe Photoshop CS and late, and some other RAW converters. It's the best format for native raw. It uses lossless compression, stores EXIF data from paired JPEG file, has small preview and allows straight processing by Photoshop.

raw2dng.exe is a command line variant of program, like raw2nef.exe. raw2dngw.exe is a GUI variant of program. raw2dngw.exe have build-in converters raw to dng and raw to nef. diadpix.exe is a command line version of special purpose program for making table of dead pixels. RAW to DNG converter uses this table for correcting dead pixels during the conversion.

Adding file for conversion

You can drag files/folder from Windows Explorer and drop it to the file list. Then you are adding folder program scans all subfolders and add files with known extension which have well-known format to list. HKCU\Software\raw2dng\KnownExtensions registry key has value ".JPG;.RAW;.DNG;.NEF;.ORF;.PEF;.MRW;.SR2;" by default. Then you are adding file (not folders), or you are using dialog for select files, program adds every selected file, except true JPEG files.

If you run program from command line you can set a list of files or folders in the command line.

Supported input formats

Native raw format of most Nikon Coolpix DSC, some Olympus, Konika-Minolta, Casio digital still cameras. (see raw2nef.ini for full list)
NIKON Coolpix NEF format (real and raw2nef output).
NIKON D-series NEF format (compressed & uncompressed).
Panasonic DMC-FZ30, DMC-LX1
Olympus Camedia C8080WZ, C7070WZ, C5050Z, SP500UZ.
Olympus E-series: E-1, E-20, E-300.
Minolta 7i, A1, A2, 7D.
Sony DSC-R1
PENTAX *ist D
Compressed Adobe DNG (version 1.0.0.0, 1.1.0.0)

Supported output formats

Compressed Adobe DNG (version 1.0.0.0)
NIKON Coolpix NEF E5400, E8700
NIKON Coolpix NEF E5700

Properties dialog

Properties dialog allows set output file name, EXIF file, set local advanced parameters. Preview result window shows auto camera detection process and results. You can set other camera model selecting it from list of cameras. The list have all cameras which have the same raw file size.

Advanced dialog

You can set some extra options, set table of dead pixels etc. Global parameters set can be overrided by local parameters for each file.

Start conversion

Press Convert button to start conversion. Program converts every file from the list marked with Ready. Conversion result is Success or Fault. See Properties dialog for detailed error report.

Distribution

Program is fully free for any using, including sources. Distribution packed is a 7-zip archive. So you must have appropriate program to uncompress executable. (See http://www.7-zip.org for decompress 7z archives.)

Usually archive contains:

Unicode english and russian (both in one) GUI executable raw2dngw.exe (Windows XP, 2000)
English raw2dng_en.exe and russian raw2dng_ru.exe GUI executable for Windows 98SE, ME
Command line raw2dng.exe, raw2nef.exe, deadpix.exe (it's not a console application)
Native raw parameters file raw2nef.ini
Sources

Nikon Coolpix 2500

Process RAW data

RAW to DNG Converter

Version list

RAW to DNG Converter GUI (raw2dngw.exe)