Importing NEF Nikon Z fc

We often have users complain that they no longer are able to access profiles specific to their camera such as Standard, Landscape, Portrait, etc. They complain that they only have "Embedded" available. They are quite surprised when we suggest that there camera has been switched to JPEG mode. Yes, you are correct when you suggest that JPEG is "good enough". The new cameras are capable of producing very good quality JPEG images.

In the meantime the JPEGs are reaaly good.

Je suis pas niaiseux et je comprends que sa prends du temps... sauf qu'a chaque fois que je m'achète une nouvelle caméra...c'est toujours la même histoire...et une multinational qui fait des billions...devrait être a l'avant de l'autobus et non entrein de l'attendre.

I'm not stupid and I understand that it takes time ... except that every time I buy a new camera ... it's always the same story ... and a multinational that makes billions. ..should be at the front of the bus and not wait for it.

So a few things

First you are asking about camera support in Lightroom Classic (LrC), Ok, but it is actually about Adobe Camera RAW (ACR). As you know LrC is a Data Access Management (DAM) program using a flavor of SQL database enveloped in a GUI interface around ACR, that is to say Adobe Camera RAW is part if the code.

Now at Adobe, the team working on LrC needs the code from the team working on ACR to finish before they can include that code into the new LrC that they are probably working on.

The ACR team, cannot do much code work until they can get their hands on info for the new camera. Basically, it appears, when Adobe asks nicely for assistance from the camera manufacturers before the camera is released, the manufacturers tell Adobe No.  Apparently Nikon in particular tells Adobe to pound sand. So, the camera may get released before Adobe can learn anything.

One issue that some will say; BUT. A new camera using the same sensor, and same processor. Can Adobe simply turn a bit of code on to treat the new camera like the other camera? Maybe they can, maybe they in fact do. HOWEVER (next statement)

Adobe may have updates in hand, ready to release, but how many? Do they have enough to push out the update? Heck, they might for just a few cameras and no feature updates, probably a minor update, but how few is too few? 

Generally updates every month or other month. V10.3 was 7 June 2021, so who knows maybe this month???

Adobe absolutly does not share that info, so we have no idea when.

As for 

every time I buy a new camera ... it's always the same story

Yes, and it always will be.

If I or my fellow community members sound a bit harsh on this, that is because it grayes on some, a very very old issue that keeps reoccuring. We are not Adobe enablers. We tell it as it is, not as how it could be. I for one absolutly detest Lightroom Desktop, I refer to it as Lr POS. I for one, consider the Adobe Marketing of Lightroom Desktop to be evan worse than new Coca Cola.

New camera buyers get no sympathy here. Every time there is a new model that isn't supported we go through this same pointless exercise trying to educate, but it doesn't accomplish much of anything. The new purchasers are convinced that it's Adobe's fault. After all, some other company is already supporting the model, why isn't Adobe? The engineers must be sleeping. Surely, they are picking on me. I must have support NOW! This is costing me money, and I can't wait! I'm going to have to find other software. Heard it all before, and we will hear it again. Really, just wait a little while and support will be added, life will be great. Nobody is singling you out. It's just the lifecycle that has been created by camera manufacturers and their "special" raw file formats.

You have to understand that, as far as Nikon is concerned, Adobe is just another company. Nikon doesn't care whether or not Lightroom or Camera Raw supports the raw files from Nikon cameras. Nikon provides their own software. Adobe promotes the DNG format, Nikon ignores it. Nikon doesn't provide sample images in advance, Adobe has to wait for production images to become available. You are not being singled out. I could provide links from years back from inpatient users just like yourself, same answers, same problems, same no solutions. No one is singling your model out as a problem. That's just the way it is. You'll have to wait for Adobe to provide an update that supports the camera. Blame Adobe all you want, but it isn't their fault. Rant and rave all you want, but it won't change the facts.

Come on adobe, I need this update... you knew this camera was coming out for at least 2 months... ZFc please

Nikon Zfc not supported by any Adobe software (as of today). Most likely (but no guarantees) the next release of Lightroom Classic will support it.

You could download Nikon software that comes with the camera to convert the raw to TIF and then import into LrC.

Ahh, Nikon Z fc, as in release date July 2021.

vs

LrC v10.3, released 7 June 2021

So my tirade on "latest version" is so much tripe. My bad.

Does not matter if you have 6.14 or v10.3. Does not matter if you are talking Lr or LrC. That camera is not supported yet, as one would assume (camera newer than LrC versions)

see:

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

Not Adobe, no clue when, Adobe does not share that info in advance. Would probably be on next release. When is that? Not a clue.

latest version of LR classic 

That statement is often taken with consternation by fellow members. Please do not use it.

Why?

It is often wrong.

So, what exact version of LrC? Current is v10.3