Nikon Z 8

[Emil]

I got hands on a brand new "Nikon Z 8" and found that AC, other the "Z 9", currently doesn't support it's raw files. Yet, afaik bother cameras use the same image sensor; so I hacked ID_DCRaw.apl. Here's how:

- terminate AC
- load ID_DCRaw.apl in an hex editor
- search for "Z 9" (there's only one occurence)
- replace it with "Z 8"
- save the file
- restart AC

And voila AC Pro/Ultimate 16 now supports (lossless compressed) NEFs files taken with a "Z 8".

No idea why, but the patched ID_DCRaw.apl still supports the "Z 9".
I'm pretty sure that AC will support the "Z 8" with the next upgrade.
BEWARE: This is a hack! There's no guaranty at all for anything.

As an alternative you may want to patch the NEF files instead:

exitfool myfile.nef "-model=NIKON Z 9"

for all "NIKON Z 8" files should do the job.

. . . or convert your NEF files in to DNG.

[Greyfox]

I got hands on a brand new "Nikon Z 8"...

Nice camera but quite expensive - currently on sale in South Australia for AUD$6799.98 (Body only)

[culain]

Hi Emil, thank you. This is very useful to me

[jkolker]

I got hands on a brand new "Nikon Z 8" and found that AC, other the "Z 9", currently doesn't support it's raw files. Yet, afaik bother cameras use the same image sensor; so I hacked ID_DCRaw.apl. Here's how:

Thank you for this!

[Emil]

Addendum.
Since AC Pro/Ulti v17 is available there's another option if you don't want to upgrade yet (or use an international version without any upgrade yet):
Simply install the v17 trial and copy the new "ID_DCRaw.apl" into the plugins folder of v16.
This should work for all newly added camera models.

BTW. The version number of the v17 plugin is lower then the version number of v16 [sic!]