You can visit the Nikon USA site and grab the new ViewNX and Transfer programs for Coolpix and DSLR cameras. These were posted to the UK site a week or so ago and are now available to the US users. Both are available in windows and MAC versions, are free downloads and don’t require any registration.

ViewNX is an upgrade from Nikon View that many of us have been using for years. ViewNX is for browsing and managing images, while Transfer (rather obvious name, huh?) is for moving files from your memory cards or camera to your hard drive. ViewNX can do basic editing and converting of NEF files and can show focus areas, histograms, and highlight and shadow info. They both support XMP/IPTC tagging, labels and rating stars, renaming upon download, and much more. The best feature of the new Transfer program is copying to two destinations, creating an immediate backup.

Nikon Transfer used to be part of the Nikon View program. It’s now a separate program and download. Nikon support does recommend that you use both programs together for a complete image download and management solution. The two Windows files are over 80 meg combined.

Go grab Nikon ViewNX Mac here and the Nikon ViewNX Windows version here.

You can get Nikon Transfer for Mac here and Nikon Transfer for Windows here. All downloads are from the NikonUSA site.