Why did my Nikon D600 save only JPEGs when the camera showed RAW?
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I used a Nikon D600 and believed it was set to RAW because the top display showed RAW. After copying files from the SD card to my computer, I only found pairs of JPEG files, with one copy having a parenthetical number in the filename. The two JPEGs in each pair have slightly different file sizes. What could cause this, and where might the RAW files have gone?
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As Darkcat posted in the comments the manual is available online at https://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17980
The D600 takes 2 SD cards and can be set to put raw on one and JPEG on the other. That sounds like what's happened here and the reason why you saw the camera set to raw but you only found JPEG files on the card. You probably need to look for another card which will contain the raw files.
Because of the DCF (file naming) specification used by Nikon and other manufacturers the camera would not have added files with a parenthetical number. Something else has done that like another piece of software that has been run on the card perhaps, you'll need to look in more detail at what has happened to the card after it left the camera to find out what or who did that.
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On the D600, the most likely explanation is that the camera was configured to use its two SD card slots separately — for example, saving RAW files to one card and JPEGs to the other. In that case, the card you copied may only contain the JPEGs, while the RAW files are on the second card.
The parenthetical number in one filename is probably not something the camera created. Nikon follows standard DCF naming, so filenames like that are usually added later by a computer operating system or software when duplicate names are encountered during copying.
So the key things to check are:
- whether a second SD card was in the camera
- the D600’s card-slot recording settings
- whether software on your computer renamed duplicated JPEGs during import or copy
If you still have both cards, inspect the other one for NEF RAW files.
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