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April 24, 2005, 10:32:05 PM »
What's the point? Do they really think they can charge Adobe et al enough licensing fees to make this worthwhile?
I think Canon's eating their lunch and they're desperate.
Or maybe just hugely clueless. I mean, really. Encrypting the white balance data? Sounds like some suit told the engineers to encrypt the files, they said "we don't have enough processor to do the whole thing" and they compromised by just doing the white balance data.
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April 25, 2005, 09:12:39 PM »
Phooey!! Since the NC converter installation crashes on all 5 of our Macs, this Marvelous_$100_Piece_of_Shit isn't even worth getting via the informal research acquisition route.
Hey, everybody, go out and buy a D2X right away while you can, while Nikon is still in business (sort of).
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April 26, 2005, 02:39:47 PM »
Yeah, all correct and relevant. I was really sorry to see Commodore stupidify their way to extinction. Still, sometimes too much variety can also reduce overall efficiency with so many folks re-inventing the wheel over and over again and creating confusion and a plethora of not so hot products. How many kinds of plug/jack configuration are there for wall wart type power supplies? This is just to make every manufacturer have something artificially unique and incompatible with the other guy's stuff. No better for the consumer than just one guy getting all the marbles and giving us just one choice. Humans make messes. That's a fundamental condition. There's just differently flavored messes.
I'm having plenty of fun anyway and have no misgivings about the D2X or any real worry about long run functionality. Nikon will either smarten up pretty soon or die. Simple.
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April 28, 2005, 01:50:26 AM »
The Dave Coffin story was interesting, but dont use it as an excuse to let Nikon off the hook.
You must have forgotten, I never put Nikon on the hook. It doesn't really bother me, because I use Capture. I still use Photoshop 6.
Adobe should bite the bullet and pay Nikon for rights to crack the code. I'm sure it all comes down to licensing fees. But you're more connected to Adobe than I, so maybe you can ask them if they have offered to pay Nikon for the rights. If you think there is some big conspiracy other than money working here, you're wrong. Nikon wants their fair share of the money, and I wouldn't also be surprised if they wanted the image quality to be maintained and interpreted how they meant it to be.
I know you represent a magazine devoted to Photoshop, so you may never admit that they could be part of the problem, but if Adobe isn't willing to pay out a little cash, then I think the problem is equally in their court. Why should Adobe be able to profit off of a great technology that Nikon developed without having to pay for it. That's like asking me to give licensing rights of my best images away for free.
Now, if Adobe has offered to pay, and the price they offered was reasonable, and Nikon said no, then I'd be pissed. Until I hear that one, you just won't get me too angry at Nikon, other than Capture should be free with the Ds, and they should make a F100 with the D2x chip.
What is it they are really trying to hide?
Ask Dave Coffin, he cracked it.
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April 28, 2005, 09:16:08 AM »
It is about licensing, and it is about control. Nikon wants to maintain control of the RAW data, data that are yours -- you created it.
This is as silly as the patent for FAT32, which a certain company has been using as leverage to generate fees for itself. Thankfully, the OSS world remembers the prior art in the this case and has gotten that patent's validity questioned such that it is being reconsidered.
Regarding should Nikon be paid for their superior file format, I believe that's been done when someone pulls out a credit card or a checkbook and writes Nikon a nice fat check for one of their camera bodies.
Now that we know Canon neither obfusticates their RAW files nor apparently plans to do so, we know that Nikon is not only in a poor public relations position, they are also in a poor marketing position as well. Do not expect Canon to overlook this -- they are a masterful company at marketing their products and this one has come gift-wrapped with a shiny bow from their main competitor (Nikon.)
As for Sony's doing something similar, it is not surprising in the least - Sony has a long history in this regard, and they also have led the market in technologies that lost out despite being superior, which was due to their hubris: Betamax, and so forth and so on.
Expect Nikon to back off of this one later rather than sooner, but back off they will. They will have to.
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Countless similar examples could be contrived. Just because someone develops a product doesn't mean that other manufacturers shouldn't be able to offer accessories for it.
Um, not quite, Canon happily locks out sigma lenses every 5 years or so when updating bodies. Then again it's not the same as encrypting
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but most Nikon shooters don't see it that way.
Do you have scientific poll data to back up this claim?
Well judging by the responce on the Nikonions web site and others such as Thom Hogan, I don't think "scientific poll data" is relevent.
Thom Hogan's D2X Review
He says:
White balance information tags for many cameras live in the standard EXIF data recorded with a digital image. Recent Nikon DSLRs have been putting that information into the Maker's tag section of EXIF instead. That could have been a problem, but almost all serious digital photography software has adjusted and knows where to look for the white balance data in a Nikon NEF file. Remember, NEF is a raw format, so in order to render an image from it, you have to apply some camera setting information--in particular, white balance--before you do your demosaic to generate the final pixels. On the D2x, the white balance data is still in the Maker's tag section, but it has now been encrypted. The public keys are the camera serial number and shot number. But you need the private key to unlock it, and Nikon does not document or provide it to third parties directly (Nikon officially says use their SDK to access NEF files and decode them). In the US, at least, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act may even apply to NEF files: the DMCA doesn't allow decryption of data without the data owner's permission.
The problem with Nikon's approach is that it is already causing major issues for software developers, and thus, photographers. Adobe has indicated that the new version of their conversion module for Photoshop won't be able to access the "as shot" white balance information. A few software manufacturers say they will use Nikon's SDK, some say they won't. Eric Hyman, the author of Bibble, reverse engineered the encryption, so his raw converter software was the first to fully support the D2x raw files. Ditto Dave Coffin with dcraw. In short, we've got near anarchy in the software community vis-a-vis the D2x NEF file format: everyone seems to be approaching the problem created by encrypted white balance differently. For a professional tool--perhaps even the best professional tool made--this is a potentially crippling issue. Before I tell you my personal take, let me outline the three likely positions that you and other photographers might take on this issue:
1. It's a fatal flaw. It may be something as simple as the fact that Photoshop's ability to quickly and conveniently batch raw files in an existing workflow has been broken. If you use Photoshop ACR to convert large numbers of raw files from a shooting session, the encryption and Adobe's inability to support it could be a deal breaker for you. Others who take this position point to issues such as who owns the data when a shot is taken (Nikon's encryption seems to imply that they do, an unconscionable position for a professional tool), the fact that Nikon's SDK doesn't support Linux, and that Nikon's SDK may impose performance limitations on third-party software. Long-term thinkers will point out that Nikon has abandoned software support in the past (Photo Secretary comes to mind, but Nikon View apparently is about to be discarded, as well), so the big issue will be whether a professional photographer will still be able to fully access their "negative" in 10 years.
2. It's annoying. Disruption of workflow is always annoying, but usually there's another way to run images through your process. Perhaps you'll have to change converters (or use Nikon's Photoshop plug-in). Perhaps you'll have to do a bit more control setting when running individual conversions. Maybe you'll just run Nikon Capture on your images first (Nikon Capture will write the white balance info into the proper spot without changing the underlying raw data used by other converters). In short, you're willing to put up with some additional overhead to get the other features of this product. You don't like taking five steps forward and one backward, but that still appears like four steps forward to you.
3. It's not an issue. Advanced amateurs, JPEG-only shooters, pros that already use Nikon Capture for conversions, and photographers that do low volumes of raw conversions might not see any issue at all, as their workflow practices aren't really changed and the encryption simply doesn't represent any challenge for them to get the best results possible out of the camera.
If you fall into camp #3, congratulations, the Nikon D2x will be a fine addition to your gear closet. Unfortunately, the majority of potential D2x uses probably fall into camps #1 and #2. Personally, I lean towards #1 emotionally and intellectually, but fall into #2 as when I look at myself pragmatically as a user of the D2x. From an emotional standpoint, I want to see Nikon make a slam dunk with the D2x (and other products). They've come so close, it's actually exasperating to see something so small bring the product down a peg. From an intellectual standpoint as a professional photographer, I want my negatives (e.g. raw files) to be fully documented and able to run through any tool I choose, today or ten years in the future. My volume of shooting, however, means that I tend to process every important image individually, and thus, from a pragmatic standpoint the white balance encryption isn't currently impinging on my workflow. Moreover, I tend to use Nikon Capture on my images. I have decided, however, to save all my NEF files into DNG (and TIFF) just as soon as there's a way to get all the information over unencoded. That means having to buy yet more data storage ability and tying up my computer for even longer periods of time when dealing with my images, which is a definite monetary penalty (that US$3000 extra for a 1DsMarkII doesn't look quite so large in that context).
I believe Nikon has opened a huge can of worms here. No photographer that I know of currently sees a user-advantage to white balance encryption, and that's problematic on its face. Nikon still doesn't quite understand that if you don't fully design to customer needs and wants, the competing manufacturer that does will grow faster and sell more product. The pro market is even more unforgiving. A Canon 1DsMarkII has no similar flaw, fatal or annoying. Thus, there's a friction present that keeps a pro from picking a D2x over a 1DsMarkII. Other traits have to overcome that friction. At this level of product, the only trait that has that potential is that the D2x is US$2500-3000 less in price than the 1DsMarkII. Both cameras take unbelievable pictures, both have pro-level performance and features, but one has a workflow flaw and costs less than the one that doesn't have that flaw. How much is that flaw worth to you?
My opinion: Nikon will sell significantly fewer D2x's than they should because of that flaw.
And from his home page:
ByThom Home Page
He says:
So, some commentary along with today's news: Nikon is making a classic economic mistake. They appear to be trying to make what will almost certainly eventually be a commodity-like item (DSLRs) into a proprietary one. The proper thing to do in such a situation is the opposite of what Nikon is doing: opening up and fully documenting their product would produce more third-party support, and more third-party support means more sales of the product being supported (I once had the job title of Evangelist in a high tech company--so I have some experience at the notion of building a product through community). More to the point: instead of getting a Highly Recommended from a key reviewer (okay, my lack of humility is showing today ;~), which might increase sales, Nikon is getting a review that might lower sales. Is that really their intention? I categorize this decision on Nikon's part as a Great Big Oops.
So, while you might enjoy painting me as "anti-Nikon" and "Pro-Adobe" and merely a trouble-maker trying to help Canon and Adobe because of some perceived bias or conflict of interest, my opinions regarding Nikons WB encryption are not unique. Nor are they an anti-Nikon bias, I just happen to think what Nikon did is very poor for the industry and sends a chilling message about the future. . .
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Reply #8 on:
April 24, 2005, 11:15:15 AM »
Interesting news regarding the NEF (RAW) controversy that has boiled up over the past few days regarding the future of ACR and D2X NEF files:
PhotographyBlog: Nikon Responds to Encryption Claims
Through use of the Nikon Software Developer Kit, authorized developers can produce software by applying creative concepts to their implementation and adding capabilities to open Nikons NEF file and use NEFs embedded Instructions and Nikons Libraries. Nikon photographers reap benefits from independent developers approaches, because it allows the photographer to open and process their NEF images.
After a developers software is created using the Nikon SDK, a NEF file can be opened, edited in either TIFF or JPEG format, and then saved in formats available in the developers software. This process has been available since the first Nikon SDK for NEF.
With each introduction of a new Nikon digital Single Lens Reflex model, Nikon updates the available SDK selection to provide new information; this is the situation with the D2X, D2Hs and D50 models. As stated above, application for the Nikon SDK is possible for bona fide software companies that send Nikon a written application for the SDK. Once approved, the SDK is provided to the developer at no charge and they are authorized to use it.
Nikon has provided its confidential SDK software to many software developers. With the Nikon SDK, developers may design excellent and creative compatibility between the NEF and their software, all without compromising the integrity of the NEFs original concept, and ensuring that work done by the photographer during the picture taking process can be incorporated into the rendering of the image.
Clearly, Adobe would be a firm that can access the SDK. If they choose not to, this would be a result of internal corporate politics and not an apparent refusal on Nikon's part to not make the necessary code available to Adobe.
This may or may not be the case with applications like CaptureOne and Bibble. I cannot comment on whether the developers of those programs have or could have access, but it is they that Nikon would undoubtedly view as competition for Capture. The new version of Bibble opens D2X NEF files, and there is some debate as to whether it outperforms Capture in the quality of the images thereby rendered. One thing is certain, however, Bibble does not "soak" a computer to the level that Capture does.
I would say that Nikon has made it clear to Adobe that if they want to include the D2X in it's forthcoming update to ACR they can do so, albeit after a licensing agreement is executed between Adobe and Nikon.
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Reply #9 on:
April 24, 2005, 12:24:56 PM »
I found the level of B.S. in Nikon's response to be absolutely breathtaking!
And I am indeed less likely now to upgrade the firmware in the D70, just in case...
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Reply #10 on:
April 24, 2005, 12:30:58 PM »
Thanks for the update on Bibble and C1. I didn't kniow that, and am certainly on "their side." I think it only fair that I should have the choice as a photographer to use the software I choose to use with my data. Nikon does not own the data I create, and it is ridiculous for them to assume that they do.
This is very Microsoft-ish, if you have been following the .NET and planned obfustications of their file systems.
Apparently, if Nikon cannot compete, they will obscure.
This also proves why so many segments of the DMCA need to go.
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Reply #11 on:
April 24, 2005, 05:58:20 PM »
But, Nikon will hear from their users. . .
It's not just their customers they need to worry about: it's their prospective customers, too. Who'd want to buy into Nikon while they're trying to stop their customers using third party software? It's not as if Nikon is the only game in town for Nikon mount DSLRs. Perhaps Fuji, Kodak, or Sigma would like to produce a camera that uses Adobe's DNG?
As previously noted, it's not as if not documenting the format will hide very much. Nikon's software has to read it, and even if it was fully encrypted and not merely obscured the encryption has to be fast enough to do in-camera at moderately high frame rates. So:
a) it makes the camera harder to use
it annoys existing and potential customers
c) it doesn't keep anything secret
What's the point? Do they really think they can charge Adobe et al enough licensing fees to make this worthwhile?
[ Edited to correct a typo. --giles ]
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Reply #12 on:
April 25, 2005, 08:30:46 AM »
The amusing thing is that they are claiming it is for the photographer's benefit.
Which photographers?
By removing choice in the marketplace, they are trying to remove competition. I would almost suspect that if enough users make noise, eventually a lawyer will come forth and propose a class-action lawsuit on the basis of anti-trust.
Yeah, it would never work, but that sort of thing is not supposed to be taken to it's legal conclusion. Instead, it is supposed to generate enough negative publicity so that a company has to change their ways just to get the PR demons off of their trail.
I will say this: these must be happy times over at Canon. A couple of weeks ago, before this boiled over, the D2X was all but the equal of their flagship pro DSLR. Now, the D2X has the stain of greed all over it.
Nikon, to put it bluntly, really stepped in it this time.
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Reply #13 on:
April 25, 2005, 09:05:37 AM »
I am definitely one of the folks that feels hurt by the prospect of maybe not being able to use ACR, which I really like and has worked great for me, and for which you can write Adobe actions and do batch conversions.
Now, I'd like to suggest in a purely theoretical sort of way that in some circumstances some people (like if a manufacturer is sort of holding a gun to their head to try to force them to use their software to access THEIR data after they've spent $5000 on one of their cameras) might just figure that it would be justifiable to use a software crack to avoid paying for a program they really don't want to be forced to use, but have no choice. Again, in a purely theoretical sort of way it might be possible to google for "Nikon Capture Crack" and get an overabundance of crack sites and an overabundance of NC unlock codes. I suppose it's conceivable that some of these codes might even work for the most recent version. For anyone interested in satisfying their purely intellectual curiosity about this, it would be advisable to do this research without children present, as I've heard that these sleazy crack sites have a lot of porn ads.
In the interest of the advancement of pure intellectual research, interesting results could perhaps even be shared. Just an idea. Bibble seems to be advancing the cause of science and truth and freedom and consumer rights in one way, why not a more direct personal way as well?
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Reply #14 on:
April 25, 2005, 04:25:15 PM »
Well, Didger, (by the way -- this is EricM on his brother's brother's computer ) I very much agree with you on the content of both posts. We definitely don't want to cause trouble for Michael. On the other hand, having read all of the posts about Nikon's arrogance, I am sorely tempted to do the "research" you suggest, just for spite. And that's even though I am a Canonite, with nary a piece of Nikon gear (oh, yes, I do have an El Nikkor enlarging lens, but it doesn't work very well in PhotoShop).
Someone else suggested that Nikon was alienating both customers and potential customers as well. I think that's very true. I am certainly reluctant to consider anything from Nikon in the current atmosphere.
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Reply #15 on:
April 25, 2005, 11:21:31 PM »
Ouch! That's beginning to sound more like Micro$oft than Nikon.
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Reply #16 on:
April 26, 2005, 10:23:23 AM »
Actually, it
like Microsoft in it's arrogance. Microsoft is the master of embrace/extend/extinguish as a business model, and is a convicted monopolist in both Europe and the USA. That the Bush administration backed off of the severe punishment prescribed by the courts for Microsoft is another matter, and one probably dealt with in other forums on other sites. Nevertheless, Microsoft has been charging exhorbitant rates for their software for some time due to the monopolistic practices and nasty habit of refusing to share key technical data that insures interoperability with other software. Moreover, the performance of much Microsoft software is far less than other vendor's applications and operating systems on the same platforms.
Sound familiar? It should. It certainly is to this computer engineer who has been doing business with Microsoft since 1975 -- thirty years.
To answer that it is a "better" thing to have only one platform and software suite entrenched in the marketplace I will point out to you that diversity in any marketplace is a keystone of innovation, because of competition. One only has to recall IBM's halycon days as the entrenched mainframe vendor of the 1960's and 1970's that stifled innovation, and that it took a sea change paradigm shift in the early 1980's to dislodge their hegemony over the computer world. Now, Microsoft is in the same position as IBM once was, and their behavior is very reminiscent to those of us who can recall those earlier times.
Nikon is trying to do the same thing, albeit to a smaller degree. They have obfusticated a key piece of a data file in order to frustrate their competitors. This is in the first five pages of Microsoft's playbook. They have also said that the data are available, another play out of the MS playbook and then tried to tell us it is for our own good, yet another familiar ploy.
Nowadays, Microsoft's biggest competitor in many of their key market segments is software that was developed in an open manner, and is available to any user for the price of a download and the sweat equity of learning how it operates. Oddly enough, it works better, is faster (again, on the same hardware) and is more secure due to it's transparency rather than despite it. Windows market share is decreasing, FOSS software's is steadily rising. Go figure.
At the end of the day, Nikon is behaving in a clearly anti-competitive manner. It's my take that they clearly fear ACR, Bibble and C1, not to mention other applications are going to erode their market for Capture. Why? Capture does a good job, but simply cannot throw enough hardware at it to make it perform reasonably for a photographer interested in processing hundreds if not thousands of photographs in an automated manner. Bibble is faster, does a very similar job. ACR does it just as well, and is faster. Coupled with scripting and the other new auomation features of PSCS2, it's clear that Nikon's reply to competition is to hide the ball.
And that is just like Microsoft.
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Reply #17 on:
April 26, 2005, 10:12:11 PM »
Your points are salient, except in the case of Microsoft, there was a dominant operating system prior to their leasing and subsequent licensing to IBM of PC-DOS; CP/M. Had Gary Killdall not been so arrogant towards IBM, we probably would not be having this conversation, as IBM wanted to license CP/M for it's second effort at the personal computer market (most people think that the PC was IBM's entry in to the marketplace, in fact it was the second.) Bill Gates sold a product to which he neither had ownership nor rights to at the time he agreed in principle with IBM. The product was a 16-bit OS created and owned by Seattle Computer Products, Q-DOS, which Gates renamed PC-DOS, later MS-DOS.
At any rate, in the world of personal computers, Microsoft has repeated that -- they purchased Windows technology from Xerox, they purchased what is now the Office Suite from various vendors, they even used the Berkley UNIX implementation of the TCP/IP stack and so forth and so on. They are a cross between a hawk and a vulture, and they have been sued successfully multiple times for unethical and illegal business practices not only by the US Government and the European Union, but also companies like Caldera and others for their anti-competitive and illegal activities in the marketplace.
While Microsoft makes adequate products, they also maintain their position by subterfuge and intimidation, which we see today in their position over Apple: Microsoft threatened several times to withdraw Office from the Macintosh platform is Apple did not conform to Microsoft's wishes.
Now, Nikon and other companies are facing a groundswell from the worst sort of enemy a company hiding behind weak encryption and propietary computer technology can hope to face: the Open Source community.
The F/OSS folks want the standards to be open and available to any who want it for whatever puspose they want to use it for, and they are more than capable of reverse-engineering a simple obfustication such as is the case with NEF files. In fact, it is child's play because the obfustication is almost certainly based on publically available standards (not the SDK, but the basic computer science) in any case and thus the F/OSS folks have all they need: the smarts, the information and the will to succeed.
One only has to look at the exploding growth of Linux and associated GNU software to see what they are capable of. Nikon would do well to open their standards and work with instead of against their customers.
The market will indeed speak on this, it already is, and if Nikon does not do this, someone will simply do it for them. In fact they already have. If Nikon were to sue Bibble, it would likely be a PR nightmare for them much the same as Adobe experienced with Elcomsoft and Dmitri Sklyarov. If you recall, Adobe initially brought charges against Sklyarov and later, after it had been sullied in news, retracted it's prosecution of the Russian.
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Reply #18 on:
April 27, 2005, 08:04:40 PM »
Uh, well.. . .Dave Coffin (or Phil, I don't know which) kinda got it a bit wrong.
I just talked to a contact at Canon (Im a Canon Explorer) and can confirm that Canon has never intendtionally hidden anything by encryption and has no fundimental problem with 3rd parties such as Adobe with Camera Raw and Capture One supporting all the raw files Canon cameras produce. this proven to be very GOOD for Canon.
Again, other than Sony who encrypted the entire file and Phase One who encrypts their large format raws, no other camera maker has taken the step of INTENTIONALLY ADDING encryption to any metadata where no encryption existed in previous version of their raw files except for Nikon. Dont overlook that. . .
And TK has said that Canon's CR2 format is almost the perfect TIFF-EP file in the manner in which Canon writes the files. Yes, they are still undocumented, but Canon, if anything is closer to DNG already than most all the raw file formats out there.
No, do NOT be confused, Nikon and Nikon alone have drawn a line in the sand. For that they will be punished in the marketplace, at least until such time as they reverse their decision or grant Adobe permission to decrypt the WB metadata.
The Dave Coffin story was interesting, but dont use it as an excuse to let Nikon off the hook.
It should be noted that Thomas has a slightly different take on the other camera companies and their encryption as described by Dave Coffin.
From a post on the Camera Raw U to U forums, Thomas said:
Adobe Camera Raw does not break any encryption without the permission of the camera maker.
Canon does not use any encryption in the new .CR2 (or the raw .TIF) format that Im aware of. There is some very weak metadata encryption used in the older .CRW format used by some of the Canon PowerShot cameras, but that was not the reason we not able to read the auto white balance from those cameras (the actual reason was a lack of documentation, which is another issue ).
He has also stated that aside from Phase One cameras (they also encrypt their raw files but Camera Raw doesnt try to process them) the only intentional encryption of raw file data was Sony. Sony gave permission to Adobe to break the encryption in Camera Raw.
Compression is not encryption as it serves a useful purpose of making files smaller. Nikons WB encryption does NOT make the file smaller, therefore the ONLY reason to encrypt the WB data is to make it more difficult to reverse engineer and to draw a line in the sand. Other than Sony and Phase One cameras, I know of noother camera company that has done that beside Nikon.
This does NOTHING to mitigate what Nikon has done. And you really have to question Nikons motives. Why do this? What is it they are really trying to hide? Why the WB data, when they could have encrypted any of the other data instead or in addition to the WB data.
Nikons responce last Fri was kinda like trying to put a fire out with gas. . .it didnt work and now they have an even bigger problem.
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Reply #19 on:
April 28, 2005, 04:07:36 AM »
The Nikon SDK, which is free to "bona fide software developers" does not allow access to the raw file. I think we covered this? The SDK ONLY provides preprocessed demosiaced RGB files, ok? To Camera Raw and Capture One, the SDK is useless.
So, it's REALLY not about the license fees, ok? Nikon simply does NOT want 3rd party developers to to access the raw files. The WB encryption is a ploy by Nikon to draw a line in the sand. . .
Do you like that? If they get away with it, were's the next line going to be drawn?
Any way you look at it, what Nikon has done is bad for Nikon users since it limits their freedom and choice.
It's also bad for the entire photo industry to continue down the road of undocumented, proprietary raw files.
I think we covered that, right?
Nikon's actions hurt all of us to various degrees. While you say you use Capture, do you always want to be locked into having to use Capture?
Does anybody want to be forced to do anything that is a restriction of the freedom of choice?
Who I am or what I am is really _NOT_ the issue. The issue is, Nikon drew a line and crossed it. Whatcha gonna do about it? Me, I'm gonna fight it. I sure as #### don't want to let Nikon get away with what they've done and send ANY signals to the other camera companies that photographers will roll over and take at. . .
Do you?
Over one hundred raw file formats and counting. . .now with 3 intentionally encrypted by Nikon.
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So put on your reporter's caps, sharpen your pencils, and enter to be the lucky winner. We are taking "applications"! Just tell us in 100 words or less why YOU should be that reporter. Oh, and by the way, the lucky winner will also have a spotlight feature, with his or her own byline, on KosherEye.com sharing the evening's highlights.
1st Prize: Attend the press event, enjoy Susie's demo, taste the food, take pictures, meet Susie, have a personal photo op with her and receive a fresh off the press autographed copy of the cookbook and receive a spotlight byline on KosherEye.com.
Second prize winner, the runner-up entry, will receive an autographed copy of this sure to be a bestselling book.
Transportation to and from the venue is at the cost and discretion of the winner. Pomegranate is located at 1507 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn.
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Caza Suki Restaurant
Caza Suki is one of the first barbeque and shabu shabu buffet restaurant in Jakarta, located in Kebayoran Baru area, South Jakarta was opened in 1993 with seating capacity for 270 persons, and a total employee of 90.
The concept of the restaurant in Jakarta is "Korean Style" Barbeque and Shabu Shabu buffet where the guest can take their own food from the buffet counter, cook it by themselves on their table, and eat as much as they can. The Barbeque is served with a special barbeque sauce, while the shabu shabu is served with caza sauce - a blend of chilli sauce with various spice. The guests can enjoy both the barbeque and shabu shabu at the same table. The buffet includes a selection of salad, soup, barbeque and shabu shabu items as main course, and a variety of Indonesian pastries for dessert. The price is on per person basis.
The type of service is casual dining. The decor of the restaurant is simple modern with wood elements and cream-orange-red colour scheme.
In 2001, Caza Suki has a sister company - Mangkok Putih The Noodle Bar. Currently there are four outlets of Mangkok Putih in Jakarta which are located in Jl. Panglima Polim IX no.149, Cilandak Town Square, KemangFest and Setiabudi Building 1.
|Jl. Mahakam 1 no. 15 Kebayoran Baru - Jakarta Selatan
|(021) 724-6375|(021) 725-3168


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Clay will be a starter..I like his drive.
Clay will be a starter..I like his drive.
Tristan Okpalaugo, DE Fresno State. Freak athlete....6'6" 250lbs
He's #88.
If all you're goin' on is my confession, forget it. I'm simply not credible. -Dale Gribble
Chad Bumphis and Jordan Kovacs....
Those are the two I will be pulling for...
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"May the acorns rest in peace..."
I think Chad Bumphis could potentially make the roster. He was Mississippi State's leading receiver for pretty much all 4 years (2nd in 2011) and he is an electric return man. I think he could earn himself a special teams spot on the roster, possibly to replace Marlon Moore.
Thanks for posting those. Cameron Marshall looks intriguing as someone who might challenge to make the roster.
When watching Dion Jordan I recommend watching full game cuts of him, and I would specifically recommend paying attention to his games pre-labrum tear (Fresno State, Arizona, Washington State, Washington, Arizona State). The games post-labrum tear (USC, Stanford, Oregon State, Kansas State) are not as good an indicator because his shoulder was weak and they adjusted how they were playing him to account for it.
Twitter: @ckparrot
Beyond the obvious big draft picks, these four guys really stood out to me as having potential after watching the vids (granted it's just youtube cuts):
Jasper Collins
Robert McCabe
Keelan Johnson
Terrell Sinkfield
Keelan Johnson, from what I've seen, has good instincts, takes good angles and seems to be around the ball alot. His technique needs work, tackles too high and he drops a few INTs that are right in his hands (why he plays defense I'm sure) but fluid hips for a safety and can close. A year on the practice squad and I think he'll have a good shot at the 53 next year.
Terrell Sinkfield I'm not impressed with. If he runs 4.19 then every DB in that video runs 4.18 cause he not once took a pass the distance, seemed to always get tackled and for a guy with that kind of speed playing Div I-AA he should have been dominating. He's also not a natural pass catcher...reminded me a lot of Marlon Moore the way he caught the ball.