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Nikon sets Raw standard back by encrypting NEF white balance data

Photoshopnews reports on a thread in Adobe's User to User forum where Thomas Knoll speaks to Nikon's decision to encrypt the white balance metadata in NEF files. He describes the potential for lawsuits from Nikon against software manufacturers for decrypting the files, the burden this brings to Adobe Camera Raw users, and puts forth the notion that it's the photographer that owns the data associated with the photo--not the camera manufacturer.

Posted by Steve Broback on April 17, 2005 at 02:58 PM in Advocating a RAW standard | Permalink

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"Nikon respond to RAW WB concerns"

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0504/05042203nikonnefresponse.asp

Posted by: Doug Young | April 22, 2005 at 04:47 PM

I'm having spotty success in converting NEF/Raw images into Photoshop CS2. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't. Vertical format rarely works at all. Horizontal about 75%. It's terribly unpredictible.

Posted by: william Monaghan | July 01, 2005 at 03:53 PM