Digital BW, The Print

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:


> As I understand it, what they did was encrypt the white balance information.
> ...
> On the other hand, I don't know what information the camera has concerning
> the white balance that didn't come from the sensor in the first place. It's
> not as though the camera has a separate sensor to read the ambient light.

It encrypts user-specified white balance. If you tell the camera you are 
shooting under tungsten, or if you set a custom white balance to deal 
with unusual lighting, that information is encrypted. This information 
does not come from the sensor. So Nikon is encrypting creative data that 
the photographer inputs into the camera's computer manually, and 
separately from taking an exposure.

This move is almost certainly hurting Nikon. Out of the seven wedding 
and sports shooters I know who used Nikon, six have ditched them due in 
part to their perception that they have no credible high-volume raw 
processing option with the latest Nikons. That may just be the straw 
that broke their backs, though, as most of them have acknowledged for a 
few years that Canon is ahead of Nikon in various ways significant to 
their work.

-- 
Jeff Medkeff
Eagle River, Alaska