Well August the 28th came and went and the new OS from Apple arrived, Snow Leopard OSX 10.6 and with it 64bit software finally arrived on the Mac System. The visual improvments seem very minor, but the engine is new and it shows. Performance of Apple applications running on my MacPro has increased, shorter loading times, better graphics support. My images seem to load “snappier” in Aperture 2.1.4 and image adjustments dont seem to lag.
All good news…EXCEPT
Now starts the usual Nikon farce of none compatibility, after months and months of having access to the SDK and early code, NONE, NONE i’ll say again NONE of there applications work under OSX 10.6
OK so there is a cost to Nikon to update the software, but it should only be minor, no wait, taking a look at some of the installer files you can see that many of the framework files need putting in a museum, even with Rossetta installed you’ll still run into problems as Nikons ancient frameworks try to keep up with modem computing power.
What on earth goes on at Nikon Software Development, were they all playing crazy golf when the both Microsoft and Apple announced new OS!
For the time being MAC users have Bibble Pro, Aperture, CS4 and some other applications to render there NEF files, but alas none seem to have the image quality of Capture NX IMHO
Bibble Pro 5 on the other hand will. You can see that at www.bibblelabs.com
For users of Camera Control Pro your stuck as well, so some kind sole with an equal amount of frustration has developed his own software, and they had now trouble getting it to work under Snow Leopard, heres the link to save your sanity www.sofortbildapp.com
So Nikon what on earth are you up to Canon’s software works, shareware works, freeware works, donation ware works, yet a multi national corportation such as yourself with links to some major software players still havent’t got there act together!
So to sum up great great cameras, but not much good if the software that manipulates to files from those great cameras is to be honest terribly supported and is direction mis guided.
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