12 September, 2005
Adobe and Nikon RAW Files
Nikon and Adobe have released a short press release that seems to indicate that Nikon is cooperating with Adobe and other software makers to facilitate the decoding of encrypted portions of their NEF RAW file format.
Nikon believes that the NEF file has provided important image quality through Nikon’s pioneering developments. For the future, Nikon intends to cooperate with Adobe and other industry members in order to pursue its objective of providing images with better quality, convenience and usefulness to end users.
Rob Galbraith provides good background on how this issue came about and how Nikon reacted (poorly) to the concerns of photographers. Adobe is now indicating that the upcoming Camera Raw 3.2 and DNG Converter 3.2 will be able to decode the “as-shot” white balance from Nikon NEF files.
It’s good to see Nikon is finally being sensible about this whole issue.
Filed under: Nikon,RAW Files,Software
No Comments