Nikon D200 Support

Has anyone heard an update as to when Aperture will support the raw D200 files?
Thanks
Steven

I sent Nikon a note and this was their response...
HI
Thanks for your question. As far as when other companies will support files from new companies you would have to ask those other companies. We provide the necessary tools for them to use, it is just a matter of them implementing support.
Regarding your request for a "universal" file format, Nikon is always looking at new formats and technology and when an industry standard format is available that offers the same benefits as our NEF files we will certainly study that format. THANKS
-David
Thanks for using Nikon products!
My suspicion, based on tea leaf reading of this note, is pretty much you have to do it the way Nikon wants or else...and that may generate problems for Aperture. Notice also the rather passive nature of "when an industry standard format is available.... " heck as a major player, Nikon should be leading the charge rather than sitting back and waiting for a standard to appear.
I also guess that Nikon does not want me to buy the D200 any time soon.
Steven

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Does anyone know if the Nikon d200 will be supported in the windows format? And why is it supported in mac but not windows? Very frustrating!

the d200 is not supported for tethered capture in windows, sorry I should have been more specific,my bad.

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Hi there,
I purchased Aperture immediately it came out in December 2005 at the same time I got my new Nikon D200. Now some 3 months later I still cannot use Aperture for my Raw files from the D200.
Does anyone else have this same problem and/or does anyone have any info as to when this anomaly may be corrected. I have contacted Apple some time ago by telephone but as yet no response. The guy I spoke with said he would pass on my query.
Thanks for any help you may be able to provide as I am very frustated with lack of info in this regard.
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While routing through iPhoto 6's package structure, looking for names of months and days on calendars to translate into Irish Gaelic, I came upon something interesting. There are strings embedded in iPhoto 6 that match most available raw formats--even ones that aren't supported at all by OS X (such as Pentax's PEF files).
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Nikon D200 tethered Windows support

I've seen a few requests on this forum for tethered support of the Nikon D200 in Lightroom for Windows. Will it ever happen or is the demand to low? I can use freeware programs with tethered support in Windows, so I know it's possible. Unfortunately those programs don't even come close to Lightroom. Any feedback or timetable?

I have read that Camera Control Pro 2 works with LR3, but I do not have that version, so I can not confirm it if works. Version 2 was a significant cost to upgrade and from what I understand was mostly about the addition camera support and things like Live View support.
The original Nikon Camera Control Pro cost less, was available for a long time in parrallel as and alternative choice to CCP V.2 and was one way to get LR2 to work tethered. However, even with CCP and LR2 it was a bit of an awkward hack with a number of moving parts, but it does work.
I have the trial version of LR3 on a separate machine and I tried to install Camera Control Pro onto that machine (after LR3 had been installed) and the CCP install complains about another version on the machine which needs to be uninstalled first... my guess is that LR3 install some Nikon dll that CCP doesn't like (probably newer). I have never installed CCP onto the current build of this machine so that is why I am guessing it it LR3 that it is sensing. So now what worked for me with LR2 does not seem to work with LR3.
Unfortunately since LR3 doesn't support my D200 under Windows, I have not been able to try the native LR3 tethering support... but my guess would be that the native support would be much cleaner and therefore a preferable method over the CCP + LR approach, and definetely superior to no tethering in LR3 using the D200 on Windows at all.
Camera Control Pro is just and expensive way to interface your camera to the computer via USB and software. This is why the idea of LR3 having native support was so appealing. Upgrading to CCP V.2 just to use LR3 is not at all appealing.
I have just started to experiment with LR3 Trial and although I am starting to find some nice improvements, I find the lack of tethering options using my D200 and LR3 rather frustrating. Adobe seemed to think tethering was important enough to add to LR3 (which I would agree) but I don't understand why they felt that support for the Nikon D200 on Windows was not important. I don't have any numbers available to me, but I would expect that there are a lot of D200's out there. The model is obviously aging a bit now, but being a pro model of camera I would bet that even those photographers who have upgraded that many of them probably still use there D200 as a secondary or back up camera. Many of them will be very pissed if they find themselves in a situation where they have been working tethered with their newer Nikon and suddenly when they go to use their D200 as a back up only to discover that LR3 doesn't work with their pro Nikon backup camera in tethered mode.
So even if it was just an oversight or a bad judment call on Adobe's part to not support D200 in the LR3 beta, or the release version of LR3 for Windows, or the first minor version update to LR3.2, I really hope that they have plans to add support in the next minor release
for the D200 under windows.
I know my first reaction when I saw that support was missing in the beta was that oh well, that sucks but I expect that by the time they release LR3 they will ad full support for the rest of the Nikon line, so I will wait and check out LR3 later. Well it is later now and support is still not there. So it will be interesting to see how many D200 owners who might not have said anything during the beta, speak up now. I wonder how many it will take before Adobe thinks it is a high enough priority item to address.

Looking for non Nikon D200 RAW support? BIbble has it, w/ tethered support

Nikon knows cameras, but NOT software.
Bibble just added:
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How does a little shop with a few programmers turn their code around this quickly, and a HUGE shop like Apple cannot?
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Relating to changes to the OS changing the rendering of RAW images, this from BibbleLabs on their update:
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Nikon D200 and Aperture ?

Any thoughts on whether Aperture will import raw NEF files from the Nikon D200 ?
Other photographers that have this camera on preorder are stating that dec 15th seems like a pretty firm shipping date.
My D100 works just fine...Should the D200 be much different with NEF files ?
kevin
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Nikon have a bad reputation for keeping third party manufactureres up to date with their RAW formats. WHo can forget the debacle over the encripted white-balance formats in the D70s, D50 and D2x Raw formats last year?
I wrote an article on this for Photography Monthly magazine at the time, and when I spoke to Nikon for comment it was apparant that they regretted trying to force consumers into buying Nikon's software. Even so, since then it takes longer for suport for Nikon cameras to appear in programs such as Camera Raw, compared with other manufacturers like Canon, Olympus and Pentax.
If Aperture is supposed to be a truly professional application then there is no excuse for not supporting a camera like the Nikon D200, which has been on the market since December. As a consumer I don't really care whose fault this is I just want it sorting out as soon as possible.
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I have a Nikon D200 which I recently upgraded from a D100. iPhoto imported the Raw NEF files from the D100 no probs. It refuses to import the D200 NEF files for some reason, giving error messages when I try.
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Hi folks,
I too just got a D200. iPhoto does recognize the camera when I plug it in but it only imports the jpg's
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I've bought"Aperture" 2 days ago but i can't open the .NEF files taken with my Nikon D200
What can i do?

Hi Stephen,
You missed the (see camera model listing) which lists the specific models.
Of course, I went to the Aperture page, and I missed it too. It would be nice if there's a link.
The D200 is not supported with Aperture 1.0 or 1.0.1. It will be supported with 1.1, which Apple has noted will be available in March. So, at worst, it should be 23 days or less.
Here's a document which specifically lists the supported camera models:
http://images.apple.com/aperture/pdf/20051207ApertureProductOverview.pdf
If you read through the forum a bit, you'll see 5-10 other threads on this topic.
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Can anyone tell me if they know when apple will release an update for Aperture to support Nikon D200 raw files.

Let Apple know by sending a polite note to
http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/ (seeing as RAW support is handled by the OS)
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There is a lot of information on this in the Camera Raw forum on this Adobe users site.
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>... since the sharpening and tone compensation are already pretty much set.
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