Re: [Gimp-user] Can't open nef images in gimp 2.9.3

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Alex Vergara Gil
<alexvergaragil gmail com> wrote:
> 2015-12-21 9:54 GMT-05:00, Alexandre Prokoudine
> <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>:
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Elle Stone wrote:
> >
> > > Using default GIMP 2.9.3 updated a couple of days ago on Linux, and
> > > opening
> > > a CR2 file, the resulting image is the correct size, and only 8-bits
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/ufraw/feature-requests/274/
> >
> > Unsure if this made it to 0.20+ though. And anyway, there have been no
> > installers of UFRaw for Windows for a long time (0.19.2 was the last
> > one, and it was before the aforementiond patch).
> >
> > Alex
>
> Yes Elle, thats a bit different error, but still an error. Is there
> some official suport for NEF files inside GIMP, maybe through GEGL?
>
> Alex
Yes, there is only for NEF. If you are using my build then select NEF
image, it should open a 32-bit floating rendition.

Bottom line as I said below, don't use the automatic detection feature.