Nikon and Adobe Press release

[Michael_Clark]

Just found this press release on the Nikon website - very interesting. Hopefully this bodes well for the future of RAW with Nikon and Adobe playing nice together. Here's the link:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_...amp;EDATE=Sep+5,+2005

Have at it.

Cheers, Michael
www.michaelclarkphoto.com

[Robert_Mehr]

This is GREAT new and about time. Nikon Capture does give me great results but in it present form, it is useless for D2x images. Adobe Camera Raw is great for converting large quanities of RAW files quickly but does not fully read correctly the NEF white balance settings.

Hopefully, soon, Adobe Camera Raw will be able to read Nikon RAW files correctly and I can get back to spending my time photographing clients and less behind my computer.

[JunSawa]

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Just found this press release on the Nikon website - very interesting. Hopefully this bodes well for the future of RAW with Nikon and Adobe playing nice together. Here's the link:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_...amp;EDATE=Sep+5,+2005

Have at it.

Cheers, Michael
www.michaelclarkphoto.com

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Good find Michael, sounds great, i like using photoshop and ACR so i will be using that as my on-going post processing/workflow

[RobertEdwards]

Thomas Knoll on the Adobe forums (you can login as a guest) writes that Nikon are continuing to encrypt the white balance.

What the press release means is Nikon are separating the WB part of their SDK. So apps like ACR and C1DSLR can use still use their own algorithms to decode the RAW while using a mini-SDK to decrypt white balance. Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter 3.2 will read the D2x as-shot white balance.

Why Nikon don't just stop encrypting white balance is beyond me. Nevertheless well done Nikon for listening. This is even more important than announcing a D200.

-- Robert.

[GrahamWelland]

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This is GREAT new and about time. Nikon Capture does give me great results but in it present form, it is useless for D2x images. Adobe Camera Raw is great for converting large quanities of RAW files quickly but does not fully read correctly the NEF white balance settings.

Hopefully, soon, Adobe Camera Raw will be able to read Nikon RAW files correctly and I can get back to spending my time photographing clients and less behind my computer.

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Have you tried the latest Nikon Capture 4.3.1? I've found that it's significantly faster than 4.3 (on the Mac at least). I'm not saying it's lightning fast, but not anything like so glacial as 4.3.

Absoultely GREAT news about the WB though. Maybe Adobe & Nikon could work together to render the D2X files with the same sweet colour as Capture (eventually) provides?