NRW Converter
FileFlip converts NRW files into 62 other formats entirely inside your browser, using ImageMagick, MuPDF and Pandoc compiled to WebAssembly. The NRW file is never uploaded to a server: it is read off your disk, converted on your own machine, and saved back by the browser. There is no file-size limit and no account to create.
How do I convert an NRW file?#
- Drop your NRW file onto the converter at the top of this page, or click it to pick one from your computer.
- Choose the format you want out of it. FileFlip downloads the engine that conversion needs, once, and your browser caches it.
- Conversion starts the moment you pick the format, and the result is yours to download. The work happens in this tab, so nothing is uploaded and nothing is queued.
Is it safe to convert NRW files online?#
Yes, because nothing is uploaded. FileFlip converts NRW files inside the browser tab you already have open, using WebAssembly builds of the same engines a desktop converter would install. Your file is read from your own disk into the page's memory, and no request carrying it is ever made.
You do not have to take that on trust. Open your browser's network panel, run a conversion, and you will see the engine come down and your file go nowhere. There is no upload, no server-side copy, no retention window, and no account tied to what you converted.
How FileFlip works lists every engine, its version and its download size, and shows how to check for yourself that nothing leaves your machine.
What happens to a NRW file#
FileFlip converts NRW into 62 formats with ImageMagick, MuPDF and Pandoc, all of it inside the browser tab. Each conversion below names the engine it uses, what it downloads, and exactly what that conversion keeps or drops.
| Category | Image Files |
|---|---|
| File extension | .nrw |
| FileFlip support | Read only, so it is a source rather than a target |
| Conversions available | 62 |
| Engines | ImageMagick, MuPDF and Pandoc |
| Downloaded to your browser | 14.1 MB on the first conversion, then cached |
What is an NRW file?#
An NRW file holds the raw sensor readout from one of the Nikon Coolpix compact and bridge cameras that shoot raw, using the same TIFF-based structure as Nikon's NEF but with its own white balance block and a JPEG-compressed image sitting in the file's first directory.
NRW is what a raw-capable Coolpix writes when it is taken out of JPEG-only mode, so there is no choice of raw container to make in the camera menu.
Convert NRW to JPEG once the edit is done, because web uploads, print services and most image viewers do not read Nikon's Coolpix raw format at all.
The NRW file format reference covers the specification, the programs that open one, and what each conversion keeps or drops.
NRW questions people ask#
Which Nikon cameras produce NRW files?
NRW comes from the Coolpix compact and bridge cameras that shoot raw, starting with the Coolpix P6000 in 2008 and continuing through models including the P7000, P7100, B700, P1000 and A1000. Nikon's DSLRs and Z-series mirrorless cameras write NEF instead.
What is the difference between NRW and NEF?
NRW and NEF are both Nikon raw formats built on the same TIFF-based structure, and the split is by camera line: NRW for raw-capable Coolpix models, NEF for the DSLRs and Z-series bodies. Inside the file, an NRW marks its white balance data with its own signature and per-camera layout, leaves out the linearization table that NEF carries, and stores a JPEG-compressed image in the first directory, which is exactly how ExifTool decides which of the two it is looking at.
What software opens NRW files?
NRW files open in Nikon's own free NX Studio, in Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic and Photoshop from Camera Raw 5.2 onward, and in the open-source processors RawTherapee and darktable. Apple's raw support covers NRW too, so Photos and Preview show these files on macOS.
Does converting NRW to DNG lose anything?
Converting an NRW to DNG keeps the sensor data as it was, since the conversion changes the container rather than re-rendering the picture. The cost is that Nikon's NX Studio reads NEF and NRW but not DNG, so the converted file can no longer be processed with Nikon's own rendering, and Adobe's DNG Converter has to list your Coolpix model before it will convert the file at all.