Nikon fans can now edit raw files captured by the company's new hybrid DSLR, which uses tech from the mirrorless Z 6
(Image credit: Rod Lawton/Digital Camera World)
Adobe routinely updates its software to add support for new camera raw files and various other bug-fixes and enhancements, and the latest update adds support for the Nikon D780.
This is an important new camera for Nikon and interesting to the wider photography community because it blends Nikon's classic DSLR design with the sensor technology from its mirrorless Z 6 camera. The result is that the D780 has the handling and optical viewfinder of a DSLR but the live view autofocus performance of a mirrorless camera.
The Adobe updates will be available to Creative Cloud Photography Plan users and apply to both versions of Lightroom, Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw. The updates should be applied automatically, but if this doesn't happen you can check for updates via the Adobe Creative Cloud app.
We are currently testing the Nikon D780 in Iceland ahead of our full review, but here are a few of our early sample images, processed in Adobe Camera Raw.
Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com
