Comment by Tien Soon

November 16, 2006 @ 9:37 am

ah doi~~ from such a comprehensive ACR, downgraded to a freaking simply tool. This is definitely unacceptable.

Comment by Lanatir

November 16, 2006 @ 2:26 pm

wtf fubar?

Comment by ShaolinTiger

November 17, 2006 @ 11:02 pm

Yah some pretty bad hijacking, luckily worked out how to get back to the proper dialogue!

Comment by Alberto Escobar

December 23, 2006 @ 7:53 am

Thanks for this help, I not speak english but I need tell thanks for that.

my best regards

Comment by Andrevr

December 27, 2006 @ 4:06 pm

That’s great. Thanks for the tut. Now we just need Adobe to wake up and create Camera Raw 3.7 to support the Nikon D40…:(

Comment by John Boggs

January 2, 2007 @ 1:36 pm

You would think that Nikon would have given the specs for their D40 RAW format to Adobe long before offering the camera to the public. What a dissapointment. What is the purpose of being able to capture a RAW if you can’t edit it!

Comment by ShaolinTiger

January 3, 2007 @ 2:14 pm

John Boggs: The thing is I don’t know if Nikon actually gives the specs to Adobe at all, more like Adobe has to reverse engineer it, Nikon of course want you to use Nikon Capture, that’s why when you install picture project it hijacks Photoshop so Adobe RAW no longer works..

Comment by Andrevr

January 8, 2007 @ 5:09 am

There’s more to this than meets the eye, people. I’ve heard the blurb about Nikon changes the format slightly for each new camera, to ‘encourage’ ppl to buy Nikon Capture…but I’m not so sure…There’s a piece of open source software called DCRaw, a library if you will, which other software can use to access/decode/manipulate RAW files. It gets updated every now and then, but the simple fact is that most RAW files open quite happily under DCRaw…including the D40’s NEF’s. I checked the DCRaw site and the D40 is definitely not supported yet. The author is adamant that there are only a few standard file formats, and NEF is a using one of them. So I’m not sure that the blah about file formats changing is completely true…Rawtherapee and uLead Photo Impact both use DCRaw.. and you get a MOST comprehensive suite of options for adjustment

Comment by ShaolinTiger

January 8, 2007 @ 4:16 pm

Andrevr: That’s interesting, the DCRaw library certainly looks interesting. I think the thing is Adobe is such a huge product, they have to do quite a lot of testing and regression testing before they release anything so their cycle is a little longer. The standard is usually the same as previous cams, but they don’t want to take the risk.

Comment by Martin

January 25, 2007 @ 11:21 pm

According to the author of DCRaw, D40 files can be openend, but the actual calibration values for the D40 colors are not included, yet. Until than the results produced by DCRAW are rather bad, a conversion using Picture Project is much better. One can use a hex editor to change the D40 to D50 in all NEF files which enables ACR and Aperture to open theses files - quality seems to be ok.

Comment by ShaolinTiger

January 26, 2007 @ 3:26 pm

Martin: Yah a bit of hacking can save the day. Nikon has an annoying habit of making small changes from camera to camera so 3rd party software chokes.

Comment by ANDREVR

January 27, 2007 @ 2:41 am

Martin! You Sir, are a gentleman I want to kick myself for not thinking of that, but it’s fixed now, so simply, thank you very much

Comment by Sharyn

April 23, 2008 @ 1:29 am

Okay I have the same problem, I have a D40 and cannot open the file in photoshop CS with ACR… how does one go about using a “hex” to change the files to D50? I am computer illiterate