Nikon d850 raw support

It's 5 weeks on from this question and I'd hope there would be a reply soon. The D850 is proving immensely popular and looks like being a classic DSLR.

For the moment my migration plan from Aperture is

a. Photos, which will call

b. RAW Power and then (esp for portraiture)

c. Aperture as long as it works and possibly

d. Topaz

But step (a) requires recognising D850 RAW. I am sure it will come but the wait is frustrating.

Finally got my D850 today. (After almost two months) Ha! I’m disappointed to see I can’t see thumbnails in preview. I have to save the raw to QHD and jpeg to sd card. Then I have to view both at same time to tell what picture is which. I left Apple feed back. Hope it’s soon.

This:

you always end up with a system full of new bugs.

only the last .x is the stable one, but at that time they introduce a new buggy system.

is just wrong. Just not true at all. Just absurd.

You choose to run old software that's your choice. Don't buy new cameras.

Well i am not alone saying that for instance at this moment that you should not update to High Sierra for one...

Of course you're not alone. There are many people who speak without knowing very much.

If you do that you might get into trouble with the new filesystem

You might? You're not sure? That's a very long way from your grand pronouncement that "you always end up with a system full of new bugs." Bit of a back pedal there. So, you also...might not? Millions of people have updated and migrated to the new file system with no problems.

Most professionals working with computers ( i for one) tend to say wait for version .2 or later; and then be sure everything works as it did before...

No, most professionals don't. See? I can make up stuff too. But now you're gone from the last version of an OS to the second version. So, you only might have problems not "always" have them and the last version of the OS is not the only stable one.

Consistent?

One thing i have learned through the years is that NEW is not always BETTER.

sometimes it is just plain worse.

And sometimes it's just plain better, but how would you know if you don't update?

It is a basic problem with software that a lot of documents cannot be read in the future.

Nope. What does happen a lot is that old software can't open new formats, though. Backwards compatibility is fairly easy, forward compatibility - which is what you want - isn't.

If you change every year the system software to an extent that programs have to be updated things get even more complicated.

But how? You've not shown any evidence just offered a few tired clichés, and you've contradicted yourself.

Please explain to me, instead of only using words like wrong and absurd Terence level 10, with real arguments like i do why Apple should not support a new camera in operating systems less than 5 years old.

Why ask me? I don't work for Apple. All I'm saying is that you have no good reason not to update, but choose not to. Fair enough, just don't spread FUD around. After that, if you choose not to update then don't buy cameras that are beyond the capability of the system you choose to run. Take responsibility for your own decisions.

i'm just wondering for an ETA on when Apple support the D850 in the camera raw directly.

It's never going to happen. What part of Aperture no longer being supported do you not understand?

Not to mention that speculation is against the ASC terms of use.

Golly. Mr Grumpy hits town.

I'd suggest there is a difference between Aperture not being supported and Apple supporting Nikon D850 RAW. For example, one might be using Apple Photos, which as far as I can tell is still current.

What you expect is interesting autobiography, I'm sure. And yes, there is a reason Apple drew the curtains on Aperture. No one outside of Apple knows what it is, of course, but they did have a reason I'm sure.

But your point is? And you're addressing it to me, why?

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?

and

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 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.