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[JFitness]

Hi All,

 

Got a bit of a problem thats been driving me mad.

 

I have a Nikon D5300 with the standard 18-55mm Lens, and a Tamrom USD 70-300. The below happens regardless of which lens I use.

 

After Ive been on a shoot, I transer the RAW NEF files from my SD Card to my iPhone 6s via an Apple SD Adapter. On my phone they display perfectly, but when I try to upload them to Instragram or Facebook, they become extremely blurry. I haven't tried anywhere else, but when they upload to OneDrive, it fails to generate the preview and just shows an empty placeholder.

 

Let me use Instagram as an example.

 

Using the Instagram app on my phone I can select an image to upload:

 

https://drive.google...ejRlU3ZrbjJabjQ

 

When I click "Next" it asks me to select a filter. At this point I have NO FILTER selected but the preview becomes extremely blurry:

 

https://drive.google...bUktUmpGc0QzSVE

 

If I continue with the upload then the blurry image is how it looks when its uploaded.

 

If I use my cameras built in WiFi to transfer them to my phone then it works fine, but these are a lower quality JPEG image.

 

A mate of mine has recently bought a D5500. If I follow the same import process to my phone, and upload the Instagram, the images are fine and do not have the above problem.

 

My camera is shooting in RAW only and is in sRGB colour mode.

 

Has anyone else had this issue? Not a massive problem, just annoying because it means I have to convert to JPEG before I can share them.

 

 

[dcbear78]

You have to convert them to a JPG somewhere in the process. Nowhere accepts raw files (other than file hosts like Dropbox, Google Drive etc).
Additionally to that a raw file needs to be processed. Otherwise it won't look very good.

[JFitness]

I can't be the only one with this problem surely lol

[Merco_61]

In what stage do you convert to jpg? To make things look good when sharing on social media, you must take control and upload sRGB jpgs that are resized and sharpened for screen viewing. If you let the uploader app do the resampling for web-size, the result will look like crap.