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I haven't used Irfanview, so can't comment on its strengths and weaknesses. Photomechanic has been the top choice of high-volume professional photographers for 30+ years. They think they get good ...

Yep, Photomechanic invented the idea of a fast raw image selection and management application, 30 years ago at the dawn of the digital photography era. As funny as it is to say, nobody had ...

For the 35 years that I've been aware of Nikon USA refurb pricing, this kind of thing has happened fairly regularly. They don't seem to routinely synchronize their refurb prices with whatever ...

This is an unsourced rumor from Nikon Rumors. Unfortunately, the publisher of that site has very poor reporting standards. He did say in the comments that he got a "tip" from a source. But he ...

You were wrong then and wrong now, and Shuncheung is absolutely correct. Nikon has enough cash in the bank to start two or three separate major camera companies. They just spent $800 million in ...

I wouldn't take the mailing addresses as definitive. To my certain knowledge, in years past, Nikon's service department has sometimes relayed stuff back and forth to subcontractors -- i.e. ...

If it was done at a subcontractor facility -- i.e. an independent repair shop that Nikon USA has hired to do these repairs -- the facility might be paid by the job (the individual technician ...

The paperwork you receive with the camera may tell you more than the status page does now. They don't have a useful system for keeping the status page updated. If there's no useful paperwork with ...

Yes, this is good advice. I'd be willing to bet a week's salary this will turn out to be a simple -- but nevertheless stupid -- communication error. In other words, Nikon did repair these Z8s ...

Very small thing, Ellis: what we refer to as 'Nikon USA' is, in fact, Nikon Incorporated (Nikon Inc.) The Japanese parent company's official name is Nikon Corporation (Nikon Corp). Also, as I'm ...

Many years ago, Nikon USA did sell many parts to anyone who called up and asked for them. But that has not been true for a couple of decades. Policies probably differ in other parts of the world. I ...

I'm sure Sony Imaging paid a lot for the development of that sensor, but they didn't need to demand exclusivity for it because nobody else needed that sensor in 2017. Only Leica was also making FF ...

I guess you didn't understand the point being made? The A9 is a 24-megapixel camera. It's not relevant to the question of whether Sony Semiconductor would withhold its later 45-megapixel stacked ...

Yes, I wasn't thinking only of consumer camera lenses. To the best of my knowledge, it's true that Ohara (through Canon) and Hoya are dominant in that particular corner of the optics industry. That ...

I also have heard nothing about what may or may not have become of Minolta's glass manufacturing facilities; I suspect they got acquired years ago by one of the bigger boys. For example, the ...

Couldn't see that anyone else pointed this out, but your statement is trivially easy to disprove. For many years right up to the present, Sony Semiconductor has been supply Fuji with sensors that ...

Not directly. The camera will apply them to JPEGs, but nothing is applied to a raw image by the camera itself. With Nikon's own desktop software -- NX Studio -- you could apply any of the profiles ...

Personally, I wouldn't try to reach any conclusions from one image. I would try multiple different profiles/recipes on multiple images, to try to find out which ones might or might not work better ...

Almost all consumer cameras are designed to, by default, provide pleasing colors, not colorimetrically accurate ones, even if the white balance is perfect. The Z5 is not in any way unusual in this ...

I don't know where Albert lives, but the best strategy is to contact the customer service department of the Nikon distributor for whatever region you live in. A phone call is often given more ...