My D810 is saving NEF rather than jpgs on secondary slot

Question

I have set the secondary slot to save a JPG version of each shot. But it is in fact saving a NEF version instead. This would be correct if set as backup, but it's not, I have checked more than a couple of times.

scottbb · Answer

The problem is that your camera is only recording RAW images. You need to set the image quality setting to one of the RAW+JPEG options:

NEF (RAW) + JPEG fine
NEF (RAW) + JPEG normal
NEF (RAW) + JPEG basic

Once you have chosen one of those modes, the camera will store .NEF files to one card, and .JPG files to the other card.
See the section titled Image Quality on pages 79–80 in the D810 User Manual.

My D810 is saving NEF rather than jpgs on secondary slot

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