Digital BW, The Print

"Are
you saying that they have issued a version of ACR that works with the
D2X now?"

That article states that the D2X white balance issuse will be "fixed" 
in the next ACR up-date, whenever that maybe (I'm assuming by year 
end).

Scott



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter Marshall 
<petermarshall@c...> wrote:
> They decided they couldn't do it for legal reasons without Nikon's 
> permission, while Bibble and the open source software people just 
went 
> ahead and did it, I think on the assumption that the negative 
publicity 
> from Nikon trying to assert its arguable legal position would deter 
them 
> from doing so. Adobe have of course gone to law with some success 
over 
> not unrelated issues around some of their own software in the past.
> 
> So the previous statement was not entirely misleading. Just things 
have 
> moved on a little since then. I haven't heard that Adobe have 
updated 
> their software yet to work with the Nikon encryption - but haven't 
> really been taking too much notice since I don't use a D2X or ACR. 
Are 
> you saying that they have issued a version of ACR that works with 
the 
> D2X now?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter Marshall
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> 
> scott_now_coming wrote:
> 
> >"but Adobe has decided not to do this for some
> >legal or 'political' reason in its ACR software."
> >
> >Wrong:
> >
> >
> >http://www.dpreview.com/news/0509/05090601nikon_adobe.asp
> >
> >Scott
> >
> >
> >--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Frost" 
> ><bob@f...> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>John,
> >>
> >>Been away so rather late with this, but to correct your reply - 
> >>    
> >>
> >some third 
> >  
> >
> >>party raw conversion software CAN and DOES decrypt the Nikon WB 
> >>    
> >>
> >info from 
> >  
> >
> >>the D2x (I think Bibble does), but Adobe has decided not to do 
this 
> >>    
> >>
> >for some 
> >  
> >
> >>legal or 'political' reason in its ACR software.
> >>
> >>Bob Frost.
> >>
> >>----- Original Message ----- 
> >>From: "John Vitollo" <jvlist@c...>
> >>
> >>The controversy was Nikon encrypted the White Balance for the raw 
> >>    
> >>
> >file. Even 
> >  
> >
> >>though the user
> >>does not set WB for raw, third party raw conversion software 
could 
> >>    
> >>
> >not read 
> >  
> >
> >>the "as shot
> >>white balance". Basically Nikon was/is trying to force users to 
buy 
> >>    
> >>
> >their 
> >  
> >
> >>Nikon software for
> >>$100.00.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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