Adobe RAW support to Nikon D7200? Thank you.

Question

Nikon D7200: RAW support? Timetable. Thank you.

Answer 1

I have heard that Adobe will support the 7200 in full and that it's only a matter of time. It seems, if what I was told is true, that even stand alone (non-subscription) versions of CS6 will also receive this updated support for the 7200. Now of course this was in response to a question I posted on their Facebook page but I feel it's probably legit. I think these big companies take their social media presence fairly seriously. And then again it could have been a teenager skipping school that was responding for all I know. Anyhow here's what I'm doing until said support shows up. Seems to work well and I still have access to all my tools.
I use Nikon's Capture NX-D which I downloaded for free from Nikon's site. Easy install and reads the 7200's RAW files just fine. It's a bit clunkier to me than CameraRAW but that could just be a learning curve/familiarity issue more than anything. Capture seems to do an okay job of processing the RAW files and most of the familiar tools are there but honestly I've done very little RAW editing with the software. Instead what I do is make sure the image is not too far off in any particular direction but is instead fairly well exposed. If not perfectly, right? From there I use the NX-D to convert the RAW file to a TIF as has been suggested by others. Then I open Adobe Bridge CS6 and point it at the folder containing these newly created TIFs. Once those Tifs are up on the board in Bridge I right click on the one I want to work with and instruct the software to 'open in CameraRAW' and viola! My TIF is now open in CameraRAW and I can use all the tools as if I were working with a DNG or NEF. Once to this point the workflow goes back to normal.