Despite having all the software I need to manage my picture files, I still want to install something in addition to what I already have.
The challenge was get ImageMagick on my MacBook Pro or MBP. Of course one thing led to another. Before I knew it, I was using Macports installing things I have absolutely no idea of. ImageMagick or IM was installed OKAY, so where was the challenge? I must kick it up a notch and make it able to convert NEF to JPG, right? Then I proceeded to install UFRaw .... It just went on and on. The crazy thing, at least in my mind, was I thought I only needed UFRaw but when I typed
sudo port install ufraw, it tried to install a zillion other things, including something called lensfun. Contrary to what its name suggests, lensfun was no fun at all. When it failed to install, ufraw wouldn't install either. It's part of the dependency thing. So I figured maybe I should just sudo port install lensfun. But that didn't work either. Why would it right? So more Googling. sudo port clean lensfun worked. And then sudo port install lensfun worked. After that I issued the command sudo port install ufraw, and bang, it worked, it started to install a whole bunch of crap, and it just went. finally the moment of truth. convert DSC_1704.NEF DSC_1704.JPG and it worked. It most likely doesn't make sense to convert NEF using ufraw via ImageMagick but hey it works.
