Nikon d850 raw support

Since the last High Sierra update the Nikon D850 RAW is supported on High Sierra and in Photos for Mac.

But only the Nikon RAW L format

Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra - Apple Support

The D850 *is* supported, I'm running High Sierra 10.13.2 on my Mac Pro. RAW+L, compressed or uncompressed.

Looking under System Report, Software, the Nikon D850 is there. I'm using Apple Photos if that matters.

When Apple release the latest addition to its Apple Camera RAW it will only support Preview and Photos, Apple stopped supporting Aperture a while ago so any new cameras raw images will not be recognised in Aperture. You can use Adobes DNG converter and then import the DNGs to Aperture.

The RAW Support for the D850 has a footnote: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207972

4. Nikon RAW L format only

But you cannot use the RAW support for new cameras that came with Sierra or High Sierra in Aperture at all-

As of this date Apple support, after reading posts in this discussion group suggests trying Adobe's DNG converter to move D850 nef files into Aperture. I tried it and was able to import the DNG files. The 'loading' time of the DNG files is MUCH longer than my experience with my other nef files but that is probably because of the HUGE size of the individual D850 files.

The tech checked the 'supported' camera list for Aperture and Photos programs. Neither list includes the D850 at this time. Not withstanding, Photos supports the D850 nef and Aperture doesn't. While Photos is improving with each release it still lacks many of the tools available in Aperture. I hope that Apple will 'tweak' OSX as they have on new cameras since their removing support for Aperture, so that their installed base of Aperture users will be able to continue using Aperture until Photos grows up. I hope Apple is listening! ;-).... they usually are. 😉

It is true Apple stopped supporting camera raw updates to Aperture from about Feb this year, so any newer cameras raw files will not be able to open directly in Aperture. This was published on the 19 July 2017 with the latest updates listed at the bottom, Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 10 and macOS Sierra - Apple Support hopefully they will update it soon, but I wouldn't hold my breath that once the update is released that your Nikon will be supported in Aperture. There is also the possibility that support for your camera and other new cameras will only be supported in the new macOS High Sierra, as Sierra may have reached the end of its update cycle. Only possibilities mind.

If you want to check about others issues with Aperture being excluded from Camera Raw updates just scroll through the other discussions in this forum.

The D850 Raw is supported in Photos, but only the L format.

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT207972

It's been on that list a few months now.

so that their installed base of Aperture users will be able to continue using Aperture until Photos grows up

I admire your optimism but do not share it. Photos shows no signs of acquiring the serious file management capabilities of Aperture and I don't believe it ever will. Nothing Apple have said (and, as ever, that's very little) leads me to be optimistic. Photos is a consumer app aimed squarely at iPhone shooters. That's not a pro app.

Not yet. Nikon D850 should be on this list, but I do not see it:

Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra - Apple Support

Not if you are using Aperture - New RAW support does not apply to discontinued applications like Aperture and iPhoto - it is only available in Photos

LN

The D850 is supported my macOS 10.13.2, but not by Aperture.

The RAW support seems to be installed in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCameraSupport.bundle/Resources

When I look around in this bundle using the Terminal, I am seeing support files for the following formats:

There does not seem to be a RAWL file for the D850.

The 850 was released almost a month ago. Both Apple and Adobe should have been fully aware of this camera coming and should have been able to have support for the D850 almost on day 1 of it's release.

For a camera with a complete new sensor, and Nikon keeping the details secret for its 100 years jubilee? There has been nothing but rumors about leaked tech specs for the new camera. We cannot know, if Nikon provided the software companies with the technical details so they could develop RAW support in advance before the release date. Apple's raw support is released as part of the system updates. So it would have needed the specifications many month ahead of the macOS 10.13 High Sierra release.

I can confirm that in High Sierra Preview and Photos can be used to open a NEF from the D850 - mine are 14 bit lossless compressed. Have not confirmed any other construct.

The Finder cannot render a thumbnail.

My primary workflow with these RAW files from my D850 (as well as my other full-frame Nikons) is to use Lightroom Classic CC. Have also used Capture One and Luminar 2018 quite a bit. Have tested to confirm that Affinity will also open them.

I look forward to see what Luminar's DAM will do when it is released. I likely will either move to it, or go back and purchase Capture One. Just don't like Lightroom, even if it may be the best game in town until I decide.

High Sierra seems faster and crisper than did Sierra when it opens an Aperture Library, btw, but have had to leave that for archival retrieval only.

Ernie

Posterino 3 is not reading Raws, it's reading jpeg previews from the Library. As always, no one outside of Apple knows when - or if - they will add support for a camera.

Perhaps you should tell Apple and Adobe that.