![]() ![]() I haven't run into any significant problems with their cameras, flashes or lenses myself since the D800 (mine had AF consistency issues though not the infamous "left AF" point issue). Thankfully the top of the line DSLR products and lenses seem to work as advertised, apart from Snapbridge problems reported by D500 users. And they've made a lot of really bad calls in recent years. They make the call when to release a product. It's not an engineering problem if you release a product that doesn't work, it shows that management is not up to their task. The problem is not the development of the software per se, but the attitude of the managers that it is perfectly ok to release products which do not work yet correctly. I don't think that it is too difficult for them to develop mobile applications that control cameras and transfer images. I don't believe the development of a browser and a raw conversion software is an insurmountable challenge for Nikon. Then they won't be able to sell their good products which do work correctly, either, since people won't trust that they will. This is likely to kill the Nikon brand name and people will likely see it as something to be avoided if the current practice continues. But the real problem is not a delayed product but the release of products which are obviously not properly tested (Snapbridge, Keymission). ![]() This year there was also an earthquake, which may partly explain why some of their products are not released on schedule. It must have been hard to work if the roads and plumbing do not work and people are being evacuated because of radiation contamination etc. I can understand why they made mistakes that then that led to quality problems in some products due to the circumstances at the time. However, their manufacturing capability had been destroyed by three major natural disasters. In 2011-2012 they were under tremendous pressure to put out new DSLR products the demand was high and people were expecting the D800 and D4. It seems the companies have gotten worse not better. In the early days of DOS I avoided version 1.00. I really don't like today's software that is released in beta form as a finished project. I've found CaptureNX-D very reliable provided I crop after straitening so I'm hoping ViewNX-i will get reliable too. ViewNX-i deletes ViewNX2 so I stopped the install back a few months ago and haven't tried it. Is it possible that ViewNX-i has a similar problem? I tried ViewNX-i on my MAC and had problems so I copied VNX2 from an old HD and it works fine on El Capitan. It seems these programs don't know what to do with the extra data and there is no error trapping for this problem so they go poof! I'm surprised at the problems with CS2. I've also found that Photoshop CS2 can have registration errors when I've used the Canvas Size tool so I crop periodically when using canvas size. I've found that images that are straitened and not cropped afterwards will crash ViewNX2 and CaptureNX-D when these create thumbnail views. But I want those device dependent data to be displayed when I'm browsing images. Everyone seems to just use 3rd party software. I sent Nikon a message about this, though I am not sure if it will do any good. ![]() I have to wonder if they have any competent software engineers working for them and whether they have any people whose primary task is to test and make sure that the software works correctly on any platform that is supported. I always knew Nikon software had glitches, but the frequency of them occurring since ViewNX2 and Capture NX2 were discontinued, is alarming. After this the software seems to work normally again. I deleted the c:\users\username\AppData\Local\Nikon\ViewNX-i directory. I discovered a way to temporarily solve the problem of this program being in a seemingly permanent crash loop. And sometimes when it crashes once, it will always crash when restarting the software. It crashes from time to time, especially it seems to happen when accessing older directories which have seen use by Nikon ViewNX2. However, for the past couple of years Nikon ViewNX-i has been available, it has been quite unreliable. You cannot get all of these details in e.g. Another is that it is reasonably fast to browse and check focus quickly, and you get to see hardware details such as the active focus point, AF fine tune setting in use, etc. One is that they follow the picture controls set in the camera. I like to use Nikon browsers for going through the images for several reasons. ![]()
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