Please help me - Need D500 NEF for testing

[jknights]

Does anyone have a D500 NEF that I can use for my testing of new RAW software.   Cant say more as I am under NDA.
If you have a personal NEF then I can guarantee it will not go elsewhere.
If you send me a PM then I can provide an email address for Dropbox transfer.

Alternatively if someone knows of a D500 NEF that is available for download please can you post the url.

Thanks in advance.

[Erik Lund]

Sorry no NEF files yet,,, But my guess is they soon will start to show up

[jknights]

Thanks Erik.
I was hoping someone may have had one from one of the special Nikon days.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

We weren't allowed to stick our own cards into the camera ....

[Andy]

Can get you a D5 NEF, if that helps.
rgds, Andy

[jknights]

Can get you a D5 NEF, if that helps.
rgds, Andy

That would be really useful as well as I will need to confirm that that is being read correctly.

[jknights]

We weren't allowed to stick our own cards into the camera ....

That is very disappointing but I guess early hands on is the next best thing.
I dont have good contacts here in Spain so I have to wait for general release.

[Andy]

That would be really useful as well as I will need to confirm that that is being read correctly.

No problem, you are very welcome.
Any particular requirement for the NEF? ISO, patterns, etc ...

[Bjørn Rørslett]

That is very disappointing ....

In fact, this practice has become the norm these days. Pre-production cameras are usually fully functional, but their firmware and signal processing may not be completed. Making an evaluation of a production series based on these early samples is problematic to say the least. I distinctly remember when I had to rewrite part of a review for a Nikon DSLR  because it turned out to be a major discrepancy between pre-production and ordinary production bodies. The feature I initially complained about had been remedied later. I felt like a fool and luckily due to my current NDA, will not be in a position to repeat this error.

[jknights]

No problem, you are very welcome.
Any particular requirement for the NEF? ISO, patterns, etc ...

All I want is a a well (correctly) expose image but of course anything else from a Nikon is abnormal.  :-)
This September I will be Nikon for 43 years!   Bought my Nikkormat FT in September 1973 and my F2 Photomic in September 1974.  Never regretted the choice.

[jknights]

Andy, Thanks for the D5 images from your download link.