Can a Nikon D5600 delete only the RAW file from a RAW+JPEG pair in-camera?
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I shoot RAW+JPEG on a Nikon D5600 because I want small JPEGs available in-camera for reviewing lots of images, but I also want the RAW files for later editing. After transferring the RAW files elsewhere, I’d like to delete only the RAW files from the memory card and keep the matching JPEGs on the card.
On the D5600, playback shows only one image for a RAW+JPEG shot, so I’m unsure whether deleting it will remove both files. Is there any way on the camera itself to view or delete the RAW and JPEG separately? Is this normal Nikon behavior? If not possible in-camera, is an external device the only way to manage the files separately?
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- My Canon cameras also behave like this and AFAIK this is standard behavior for all cameras.
- Assuming 40-50MB for a JPEG+Raw pair you can still put over 1200 shots in a 64GB card. This is quite a lot. I have never achieved this despite a few shoot days where I was shutter-happy and used burst mode. And consider that you'll have to review all these pictures...
- IMHO it is a lot safer to use several SD cards, so if something goes wrong you don't lose all your shots. Another advantage over the phone solution is that you don't have to worry about the battery level in your phone...
- If your Android phone has a USB-C connector (comes standard on recent ones), you can use a card reader like this to transfer your data from your card to your phone (with the help of a file manager app in your phone). This is going to be a lot faster than using Wifi(*) and lets you pick the files you transfer. This said storage on an Android phones isn't that much bigger than on SD cards...
(*) And this review says that Raw files cannot be transferred over Wifi...
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On the Nikon D5600, RAW+JPEG pairs are normally treated as one image in playback, and deleting that image deletes both files. That behavior is common on many cameras.
So, no: the D5600 does not provide a normal in-camera way to delete just the RAW from an original RAW+JPEG pair.
Your practical options are:
- Use an external device — a computer, or a phone/tablet with a card reader and file manager — to delete only the RAW files from the card.
- Use the D5600’s built-in NEF processing to create a new JPEG from a RAW file. That new JPEG is separate, so you can then delete the original RAW+JPEG pair and keep the newly created JPEG.
- On cameras with dual card slots, RAW and JPEG can often be recorded to separate cards, but the D5600 has only one slot.
If your goal is storage efficiency and easy review, external file management is the simplest route on this camera.
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