01.09.2008 13:05 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Is Nikon Aiming to Drop Mac Support?

Details in recent product releases have made Mac users owning Nikon photo materials upset and worrying about the compatibility for future Nikon RAW file format on Mac OS X. It started with the release of the Nikon photo editing application, Capture NX, in its version 2.0, expected for years and finally made available couple of weeks ago. While the speed and reactivity of the Windows version has been dramatically improved, it seems that the Mac version was not that much optimized. Then, beginning of this month, Nikon unveiled its new flagship compact, the Coolpix P6000. While loaded with plenty of nice functions and capabilities, a little sentences made Nikon photographers using Mac (so a large percentage of them) worried. Instead of using its standard RAW file format known as .NEF, Nikon decided to create a new format, now identified as NRW RAW. The format is not the main problem in itself, but rather what is implied: "COOLPIX Picture Control NRW (RAW) files can only be processed in-camera.

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