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September 6, 2005
Adobe and Nikon Agree To Work Together?
I was somewhat surprised by the Nikon/Adobe announcement that appeared on the Digital Photography Review (http://www.dpreview.com/news/0509/05090601nikon_adobe.asp) website this morning. Nikon caused a stir in the digital photography world earlier this year when it encrypted white balance information in Camera Raw format files generated by its D2X camera. There was a real fear among photographers that Nikon's encryption of this information was intended to prevent companies like Adobe from accessing raw format images directly.
Today's announcement, however, raises a number of questions. While each company has made vague comments about working together for the common good, neither has mentioned how it will work together. Likewise, Nikon has not said anything definitive regarding its encryption of white balance information, why it elected to use encryption, whether it intends to expand its use of encryption, and whether these issues relate in any way to Nikon's desire to promote is own Nikon Capture software.
It will be interesting to see what level of cooperation between Adobe--who has been promoting its own raw format standard called Digital Negative or DNG and its own raw format converter for Photoshop--and Nikon--who is promoting its own raw format, NEF, and the development of its own raw converter, Nikon Capture--actually exists given these potentially conflicting interests.
For more information about Adobe's Digital Negative format, see http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/main.html. For more information about Nikon's efforts to protect its NEF format, see http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/content/Nikon-Defends-Encrypted-NEF-Format.htm.
Posted by slewis at September 6, 2005 11:43 AM
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