I just received this link form an APA forum I belong to and apparently the New York Times Circuits has posted this article. At end of the article the writer suggests that Nikon and Adobe have recently begun talks about the D2X encryption issue. Here is the link
George http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html.../circuits.html
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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Indeed, may the pixel gods be with them ;-)
So what are the odds? Will the boys promise to behave and never do it again, Nikon promptly offer new firmware for all the models in question and Adobe in exchange take a good look at the memory issue in NC and shed a tip or two? *lol.
Might have some surprising outcomes, this whole drama. First act was the very quick release of ACR3.1.
So let's wait for Nikons move.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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Indeed, may the pixel gods be with them ;-)
Might have some surprising outcomes, this whole drama. First act was the very quick release of ACR3.1.
So let's wait for Nikons move.
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I am in the process of upgrading to the latest PS and ACR 3.1. I've been reviewing the products along with Bridge and have made the decision to ditch Nikon View & Capture.
If Nikon was smart, they would work with Adobe and and find out a way to include Nikon plugins for the Adobe software. In turn, Adobe could package their software with these plugins for the Nikon camera users. Or something else along these lines.
Just my .02.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
they mastered the art of aquiring/producing digital imagers so finally the camera companies were in charge of the final results ... along comes a "new" proprietor to whom they have to bow, the new property is now called postprocessing software.
They all seem to have failed the task to come up with their own, original concept of a fine workflow from lens to paper - and a formerly unrelated to the industry company saw it's chance and grabbed the cake...
Interesting turning point that we are witnessing right now, let's just hope that in spite of missing competition monopoly abuse is not going to happen. Photoshop is nice, no doubt, but i find it to become more and more bloated with every release, competition is needed.
Slowly we see what a mess all the proprietary formats for each camera model are building, at the same time fear of one source being the holder of a unifying format grows... see what it came to, instead of Adobe having to go to the camera makers and be happy if they can offer support for the products they just need to let a tiny howl out and everybody is already bashing the vendor... mighty powerful already, isn't it?
I'd like to see NC grow into a useable product, at least for all the "developing work" safe for retouching. A product "digital still camera" is not complete without a good software for the user.
I'd also like Adobe to refine their product and hopefully melt it with After Effects some time in the near future - the first 6MP 35mm full frame 60fps second camera is out and the borders are beginning to melt already. I was disappointed of Bridges performance, it took hours and hours to regenerate all the thumbnails anew, finally gave up on my whole drive and crashed because of memory leakage (they all do that, don't they? ;-) ) and then gave me the joy of altering the default settings for each camera model i have pictures of on my drive because they find that "AutoEverything" is what the targetgroup needs ... short, i find they are not the end of it all either ;-)
The WB-encryption conflict leaves a bad taste in my mouth about both the contenders, i hope they both got enough negative feedback to do better in the future...
my (longwinded) 2c.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
It is good news for all photographers the two companies are talking, not just Nikon shooters. Well done Nikon and Adobe.
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...then gave me the joy of altering the default settings for each camera model i have pictures of on my drive because they find that "AutoEverything" is what the targetgroup needs ...
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Alexander,
It's worth persisting with Bridge. Download the PDF sample chapter from Bruce Fraser's new book at www.PhotoshopNews.com. It's what you need to know about living with the new Adobe products. For starters open a sample image from every camera and set as camera default before pointing Bridge to any image folders.
-- Robert.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
yes, that's exactly what i has to find out the other way round... ;-) Still can't understand how they can come out like that. You can make migration from one version to another easy for your customers or you can hand it out and say "we don't care, it's not our time". That was my point. If they feel that "Auto-Creativity" is the next big thing, fine, as long as they let the user choose. Handing out software that is flawed is another thing - but that's so common these days that you have to live with it (gritting teeth though ;-) ).
Bridge is a good move and it will grow into a useable piece - hopefully.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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