MAC Mini cannot view image from z8 memory card

We are fellow users and have no way of knowing when or if Nikon has provided Apple with the data that they need to provide Z8 support, or when the Z8 support will be offered in a future version of macOS.

The current version of Adobe Digital Negative Converter (15.3.1) will convert the RAW Z8 images to DNG and these are viewable in the Finder, Quick Look, and Preview. Also, the free (non-commercial) XnViewMP application (1.4.5) can view the raw Z8 images too.

The Nikon Z8 is a new camera so you may not see any support in Photos until the next macOS update.

Until then, if need be, you could install the Nikon software which should be able to read the files and then convert them to a format usable by Photos unless Nikon has yet to update their software to support the Z8.

Apple does not currently support Nikon Z8 NEF files. That may change in the future, but in the meanwhile one solution for Apple Photos / iCloud Photos users is the RAW Power app. RAW Power primarily uses Apple Photos / iCloud Photos as its digital asset manager ("DAM"), meaning that when you use RAW Power you see the same photos you have in Apple Photos / iCloud Photos (including on mac, iPhone and iPad) and can non-destructively edit them through RAW Power, which then syncs the edited versions back to Apple Photos / iCloud Photos. The editing options are far more extensive than Apple Photos and share a bit in common with Apple's long-gone pro-grade photography app, Aperture (which maybe isn't surprising, given the main developer of RAW Power used to lead the Aperture team at Apple).

RAW Power includes 'Extended RAW' support for multiple cameras that are not supported by Apple. The latest of these is Nikon Z8 Lossless Compressed. Note that, as of today, support does not yet cover the Nikon Z8 compressed High Efficiency (HE) and High Efficiency* (HE*) formats.

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This is especially frustrating since the z9 files are able to read and z8 files should be written identically