Nikon d850 raw support

It is a pity that Apple is slow with supporting the D850.

I agree with many of the posters here that support could have been brought earlier with the 13.1 upgrade.

Adobe is not known to be fast on this point, but supports the camera already for one month.

The camera is out for almost three months and it is an important camera.

Probably they have more important things on their mind like finishing the new system and their own new phone- products.

Surely the point is that if Apple want Photos to be adopted (which appears to be the strategy) then MacOS will need to support current cameras.

I'll be frank. I'm not sure there is anything in Photos that demonstrates Apple has any interest in photographers using cameras like the 850. It seems to me to be squarely aimed at users of less complex devices. It does more, of course, and can be extended in various ways, but bluntly, I don't see any evidence that Apple are taking the Aperture user into any significant consideration with Photos. I recall the email I got (as an Aperture user) after Photos was released. It invited me to have a look at Photos but never suggested that it might be an adequate replacement - and it isn't.

Further, I can easily imagine Apple thinking that someone paying $3k+ for a camera body will be unlikely to process Raws from it with a giveaway raw processor. It's a bit like Pages and Numbers and so on. Perfectly good and useful apps but not up to serious professional usage. For that you go third party.

The camera is out for almost three months and it is an important camera.

It is worth noting that Nikon offered no help on this when they released the 850. Unlike other cameras Adobe had to basically reverse engineer their code, if what I read is correct. That Apple haven't got round to doing the same is, I think, another example of what I referred to above.

Terence Devlin wrote

It is worth noting that Nikon offered no help on this when they released the 850.

Please show your references for that is simply not true...

For whatever reason Nikon would want to do this if they want to push sales of this camera?

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Apple managed to support all Nikons before so...?

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and yes Photos is not made for professional photographers, but their camera support is.

My apologies to you - and Nikon. I'm quite sure I read that somewhere but now a good root through google can't find anything of the sort. So my apologies if I mis-remember something.

and yes Photos is not made for professional photographers, but their camera support is

Apparently not.

Photos on macOS is incredibly powerful. I am using it as a catalog, it is so amazingly simple to tag and categorize photos. I have over 10,000 photos in my Photos library. I'm neither a teenager nor grandma. And I don't live with my mother either.

Just curious if anyone has seen a D850 RAW-L image work in Apple Photos. I am running the latest OS but my D850 RAW files do not work in the finder or in Photos despite Apple’s posting showing D850 support. D850 RAW-L files are working in Preview.

Hi léonie,

As noted in each of my posts, I'm only shooting RAW-L. I opened the file in Nikon's ViewNX-i and the information pane noted that the format was "L". So that's not the problem.

I'm not sure how to post a sample photo. I can click "insert photo" but it has a 2MB limit and my Nikon RAW-L file is 52MB.

There was an update around 22 December but it didn't work. Only large RAW files were supported!!

Now the camera is not any more on the list!!! What is happening!!! I wan't to order the new Mac Pro but as long it is not supported I don' t place my order for the Mac Pro!!

I have for the moment more than 1000 photo's waiting to import. I don't understand why it takes so much time do have the update!!!

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.

The first is large (default for the camera), second is medium and third is small.

There is NO RAW support for Aperture obviously, but the macOS does support the files, can open them with Preview and Photos.

I have successfully managed to navigate to the Resources folder in the RawCameraSupport.bundle. I can see that there is a document/ file called Plugins.assets (in previous OS's this would have been a plugins zip which could be easily opened). So my question is how do you open the Plugins.asset file so I can look at the list of supported cameras.

Thank You.

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

I look forward to see what Luminar's DAM

Ditto. In the mean time, I've been exploring Mylio - one I misunderstood as I thought the Cloud was mandatory. It's not. It's fast, it will send a file to any editor you choose and (it takes a little fiddling) take back whatever you output. No stacking, unfortunately, but so far, I'm not unhappy. Got 71k images into it in about 2 hours. And if, like me, you have family shooting as well, then it has easy tools for them.

The big selling point is that it will sync your images across multiple devices (not full size if you don't want it), and does it on your home wi-fi not the internet. Working here without a hitch.

You can create a free account to test it out for 25k images. I'm pleasantly surprised.

I tested Mylio for a while, but it seemed like it might not be "going anywhere". Did not yet have the D850, so no test of that. The Aperture Library did migrate, sorta, but again had no confidence they were intending to persevere.

My main Aperture library is 5.6 TB on a 6 TB Thunderbolt drive. Have been reluctant to try to see if Photos could open it. Do have two clones ready for backup, tho'.

BTW, I would say that Lightroom does NOT seem as crisp on High Sierra.

Ernie