How to process Nikon Z 6III RAW files in Photos?
I prefer the Apple photo processing to Nikon, but my Z 6 iii isn't supported yet. I am getting impatient....
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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.6
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If you look at this:
Just look at how many just Nikon cameras are on this list, and there are so many Canon and others! Every camera model and sub-model has its very own RAW format that's different from all the others. Apple doesn't seem interested in writing new code to support them all, and I find it hard to blame them for that.
I have my Z 8 save jpgs on the SD card and NEF files on the CFexpress card, and I import the jpgs to Photos. ( I think the Z 6 will put them all on the same SD card.) I use those jpgs in Photos to curate my pictures, rejecting most of them. I may have to make preliminary adjustments in Photos to help choose the best. With Photos editing, many of the jpgs are lovely on their own, But for the ones that seem like they could benefit from RAW information, I edit them with either Nikon's NX studio (free!) or Adobe's Lightroom classic (subscription--bah!) I get the best results I can for these selected images with the RAW editors, and I save a jpg that I can import to Photos. I sometimes find that I can further improve the image some with Photos own editor. I keep only about 15% of the pictures as "Favorites," and a bit less than a third of those are edited in a RAW editor. Photos does fine with the other jpgs.
While I don't, many people use Adobe's free Digital Negative (DNG) converter to make a universally acceptable RAW picture file. This is the format that Lightroom uses when it creates a new (edited) RAW file, and Apple and Photos supports it. It's possible that the conversion loses some RAW information unique to the Z6, but I haven't seen much about that.
