P: Lens support Nikkor 16mm f2.8D with Nikon Z5 and FTZ

I’ve been involved with photography for more than 40 years, and with digital photography for the past 18 years.  I also have written computer software for almost 56 years, starting with FORTRAN II on a GE 225 as a UCLA undergrad. If there is anything that experience has taught me is to never make assumptions, or generalize from one case to all.  There have long been incompatibilities between 3rd party lenses and camera bodies, particularly when the body manufacturers don’t share communication information with the 3rd party lens manufacturers.  Similarly, the body companies are not always forthcoming in their communication protocols, or with the way they write their data to physical media such as cards.  Bugs are remarkably easy to introduce, and devilish to find.  Put the right hardware together with the right software and the bugs just jump out.  I beta test software for photography companies, as well as statistical software and operating systems.  My test philosophy is always to look for boundary conditions that will stress the software.  With photo software, I test ALL lens,body,adapter combinations I have in my collection, and have found some interesting combinations of body, lens, adapters don’t work (either mechanically in some instances, or in software in other instances).  While I bring these immediately to developers’ attention, some bugs take a while to get fixed.  You’d be surprised at some of the software that still doesn’t work with certain pieces of hardware. I’d share this, but that would be against NDA to do so.  I will say that in our house we have multiple Nikon FX, DX, and Z bodies, as well as Fuji XF bodies.  Incompatibilities between software and hardware is still fairly prevalent, especially with Z bodies with or without the FTZ adapter, and with Nikon FX and S lenses, as well as third party lenses.  The Fujis are less problematic, but that is largely because there are few 3rd party lenses available.  The Zeiss Touit line still doesn’t read properly in a number of pieces of software.

So, while I don’t doubt your success as a photographer, I think your approach to validating lens, adapter, body combinations is both naive or shortsighted.  Assume nothing.  Trust, but verify.

Marc, if I run a photo business that regularly books sessions for $2k, you should know I am not a moron... so please don't speak to me in that way.  I have been in business for over 15 years and nothing of this sort has ever come up and I upgrade equipment every 2 years.  Of course I tested the camera with the adapter and an F mount lens (which happened to be nikon brand) as soon as I got it and before I used it on a shoot.  Little did I know I needed to test ALL of my lenses to make sure the files created by them would all read in Lightroom and Photoshop.  This is not a common problem with software so why would I ever think I needed to do this. 

If you read my very first post in the forum, you would have read that I had an adobe tech logged into my computer for FIVE HOURS trying to fix the problem and eventually saying my files were corrupt. Luckily, 

I use Photo Mechanic software for culling and that program read every file correctly so I knew that was false.  Adobe was not even making techs aware of this issue and wasted so much time of their consumers.

I honestly can't believe I wasted my time explaining this to you, but I guess I felt I should pass on some knowledge to someone who likes to troll forums and make comments that are not helpful to a solution.  Hope you learned another valuable lesson today.  Take care.

You seriously expect someone to be concerned about your issue when you didn’t have the common sense to test the lens, adapter, body combination before doing a paid job.  Get real.  I wouldn’t go out photographing for pay until I was 100% certain that my new camera body and adapter and lens all worked with the software I was planning to use to ingest and edit the images.  Treat this as a learning experience.  My wife and I took an expensive workshop and Lightroom did not yet support her new camera (not Nikon).  She missed out on all the extremely valuable post-processing tips that occurred in the evenings after taking wildlife photos all day.  I’m not being a jerk here.  I know from personal experience now that you use a new camera at your own peril if you don’t make certain that everything works with everything, including software, before you set foot out of your house.

It was actually DP review that announced it.  I couldn’t find it anywhere on Adobe’s stuff until I chatted with support for half an hour 🤦🏼‍♂

*marc_feldesman_9snxu9yq5decq 

I’m glad you have the time to make bratty comments. I’ll go back to booking 2k sessions while you troll some more...  

Well to be fair the tecnician probably only said because Adobe already announced thw update today..

*tbroglinphoto Thanks! I wonder why @Rikk wouldn’t just tell us that? Oh right... “Adobe doesn’t release timelines blah blah blah”

Looks like that support technician just broke your rules Rikk. Maybe you should penalize him.

Thank you for that! I don't need to keep checking for the update today then 🙂 

Agreed. I have no beef with the minions crunching the code