CS4 suddenly won't recognize Nikon files

Question

Is it really true Adobe is not going to offer the plugin necessary to make my less than a year old copy of CS4 compatible with my new Nikon D7000? Does anyone have the 6.3 plugin, or know where I can get it so I can try to hack it into my CS4? There is no way I will every buy another Adobe product if they are basically making my $300 program garbage in less than a year, so I would really like to know a way around this. The dng conversion is inadequate since I shoot thousands of photos. Thanks!

Answer 1

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Noel Carboni wrote:
Ed, I doubt very much that the authors of a professional image processing package would even begin to consider leaving anything up to chance.
You do know that they provide the free DNG converter, so that anyone with a new camera CAN convert the very latest camera files to a format all the older Photoshops understand, right?  It's not like they're leaving people out in the cold.
People often seem to think it's okay to pay thousands for a new camera, but their old software should just be updated by the manufacturer for free...  And in this case it actually is, when you consider the DNG converter.  If you think about it, it's a brilliant strategy by Adobe.
But if you want the ultimate convenience of full integration and not having to do an extra step of conversion, well, then the old saying applies:  "If you want to play you have to pay".  Buy the Photoshop upgrade.
-Noel
Sure they leave a ton of things up to chance. If they didn't they would actually come out with a version that didn't need updating 1, 2, 3 time over the course of it's life (wouldn't that be nice).
The DNG convert only works IF ACR and the convert has been updated to accept the new RAW file. That is why everytime a new ACR is released a new convert is released. If you have a old version of the convert try using it on newer camera files, it doesn't work. So everyone is still left out in the cold until Adobe gets around to updating ACR and converter.
No I'm not looking for any free upgrades to PS. I don't want Adobe to include whatever new features they may have in a newer version of PS and ACR ported back to the older version. But to UPDATE ACR to see newer cameras, say for at least one version, IE CS3's ACR never gets updates after CS5 comes out but they update CS4 ACR until CS6 comes out. You still don't get the newest feature set in the newer version. You just get newer camera models.
I play and I pay. I have had PS 6 CS2/3/4 and now 5. I could of just upgraded Lightroom and stayed with CS3 or 4 but I don't paticularly care for Lightroom and I rarely used the 2 versions I've had. Just like you don't use Bridge.
Oh and that other problem I was having with CS5 closing with a RUNTIME ERROR when you and I first butted heads. Funny but on the exact same hardware and the exact same OS, XP, on the exact same install of the OS. After a complete uninstall of PS and good cleaning of the registry and a reinstall I don't get those errors. So to me it was PS that was causing it.
Something in the lines of the *x*x*x MVM*x*x.xxx files being created on some random drive by PS and representatives of Adobe stating the it wasn't PS creating those files. It was some 3rd party plugin. When in fact it was PS that created them. I get them in the ROOT of my D drive. My D drive is where I have PS installed but is not used for image files or the PS scratch disk or system Temp.