IPhoto 5 and D90 NEF

Good morning,
I have a Nikon D90 and I want to import my photo (NEF) in iPhoto 5, but it cannot import them.
I don't want to convert my NEF in JPG.
Is it possible to import the NEF in iPhoto '05 or I have to buy iPhoto '09?
Thank you in advance.
Gricolomb

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
I'm using 10.4.11, iPhoto 6 and Nikon D90, in Finder, when opening my card (read in card reader), the thumbs of my RAW images shows nicely.
That’s the JPEG thumbnail embedded in the NEF.
So I Guess, it isn't the OS, rather iPhoto, or am I guessing wrong?
You guess wrong. You still can’t do anything with the NEF - witness:
copied one image to my Desktop, renamed it to .RAW instead of .NEF, dragged into iphoto, and voila, import succedded!
BUT the photo is just thumbnail sized, even though it reports 7.3 Mb, so not a usable solution.
See? It’s the thumbnail that was imported successfully. There is no file suffix “.RAW”, just as there is no File Suffix “.WordProcessor”. Raw is a type of file and every model of camera produces it’s own version of RAW.
Regards
TD

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