Ernst wrote:
The trend is to shift more editing tools into the RAW development phase ...
True, and that's probably a good thing. On the other hand, so much of my work is multiple frame with geometric alterations, that I doubt they'll do me much good. The first RGB image that combines my various frames is the most important one for me to save. I turn off all sharpening in the raw conversion, though the color noise reduction of (last year's?) ARC was a major upgrade of the sort I'd like to always be able to take advantage of.
... It is more likely I will see files with the
rumored Android RAW format coming my way soon :-)
Cell phones are taking over most of photography -- which in my time frame will help me by limiting the competition for quality files.
My Nikon 8000 still runs ...
I found a programmer online who had came up with an easy manual fix for the Nikon code. It worked. So, my Win7 is driving it fine.
Paul