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Lucie Studio8
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November 5, 2020
Question

Again Lightroom can't view files... New Nikon Z6 ii

  • November 5, 2020
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Big deception when you buy a new one... i hope they can it really fast! 😞

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    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    November 6, 2020

    How can it be a "big deception" when Adobe maintains a public list of cameras currently supported?

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      scottbalikian
      Participant
      November 11, 2020

      Funny, it has been a 5 years since I've bought a new camera and just recently bought the Z6 II.  I was telling my roommate how it "used to be" that you couldn't load your RAW files into Photoshop or Lightroom until they updated their support for those new camera file formats.  Naively, I thought that they had "fixed" this issue.  I thought that maybe Manufacturers decided to play nice and standardize their RAW formats, or at the very least, they would work with software companies to enable support BEFORE a new camera was released.  BOY WAS I WRONG!!!

      Honestly, I didn't even realize that Nikon produced their own software, I've been using PS and lightroom for so long.  I guess when I need to process some images in the next week or so, I'll do the dance of using Nikon software to convert to TIFF and then importing those files.  Kind of a pain - especially when you think you might have to do this for the next couple of months.  *sigh*  oh wel.

      dj_paige
      dj_paige
      Legend
      November 11, 2020

      So what you're saying is you didn't do the necessary amound of research before spending over $2K for a camera ...

        Rob_Cullen
        Community Expert
        Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        November 6, 2020

        The "Big deception" is the Camera manufacturer!

        They change the format of their proprietary raw file with every new camera release.

         

        Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
        ManiacJoe
        ManiacJoe
        Inspiring
        November 6, 2020

        Since the camera makers also make software, they see Adobe as a competitor and do not share data or new cameras with them. Thus is normally takes 1-2 software releases from Adobe to learn the new file formats.

         

          dj_paige
          dj_paige
          Legend
          November 5, 2020

          The camera has just been released and it takes Adobe a while in order to be able to use the RAW from brand new cameras. Most likely your camera will be supported in the next release of Lightroom Classic (but no guarantees either). In the meantime, you have to use the Nikon software to view and edit these RAWs.

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            Lucie Studio8Author
            Participant
            November 5, 2020

            They can fix.....

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