Nikon D850 RAW support 10.13.3

Fro what I have seen and been told, the Finder generates the thumbnails and needs to have appropriate software in it to do so.

Nikon D850 raw files are a new format. I am getting conflicting information to whom is responsible. Some places say Nikon has not turned over the specs for the files to Apple. Some say Apple has not made the needed update.

Adobe Bridge can show thumbnails, but is generating them internally. Photoshop cannot because it is using the finder. So Adobe seems at least, to have the needed information

Adobe is not developing an operating system with coordinated vendor and operating system release windows. Adobe can issue an update to new versions of Bridge with far less delays from the camera vendors due to this big difference in release complexity, and testing timeframes.

As for what is going on with the full D850 raw support, only Apple and Nikon know the real answer.

Makes sense. I was not actually trying to place blame, just reporting on what I found after an entire morning of chatting with Adobe service and then doing searches.

Somehow, it seems there has been enough time since the release of the D850 for this to not be an issue.

I agree.

The Mac is the preferred platform for serious photographers, and the D850 is a camera for serious photographers. Apple needs to support this relationship by updating MacOS is a reasonable timeframe.

I've just been messing around with Finder - the first time since I've really looked since getting my D850 a couple of weeks ago.

It appears that Preview in High Sierra 10.13.3 can handle 14-bit Lossless Compressed Raw but NOT 12-bit! Weird.

In either case, I don't get a thumbnail from the raw file, but with 14-bit, I do get the as shown by CountryGirl56 above.

FYI.

I see. Never mind then.

The Finder is not going to show you thumbnail image from a Nikon D850 Camera Raw file. I just checked one of these D850 NEF files with macOS 10.13.3.

As Viking noted, no thumbnails. It may actually because of a change to the files from D850 cameras. Just speculation that thumbnails are generated by cameras themselves. I could be mistaken.

FWIW, Apple has lots on its plate so "a reasonable timeframe" is relative. I have reason to believe the issue will be resolved with 10.13.4 when it's released.

I have 10.13.4 beta and it does not. But I also know not everything in the final distribution is in the beta.

Ok is that the finder? How did you get that? Which version MacOS?

Thanks

It is interesting. Programs of various kinds, native apps such as Preview and third party apps like Adobe Bridge, can create thumbnails but the Finder cannot.