Why is it my photos all look a wee bit wonky? The colours are not quite right. Yes, you can blame my incompetence as a photographer but please save some of that blame for Nikon (the company that makes my camera) and Apple the geniuses behind iPhoto.
Fix these problems or I shall set the hounds on ye…
Nikon, you have made a spectacular machine with amazing optical and electronic properties; You give amateur photographers exactly what they wanted: A sturdy high-performance DSLR with a fast high-resolution sensor and a great kit-lens. But (you fools), you cripple it by making your RAW output format proprietary, closed source and if that were not a nuisance enough you go and encrypt it so that software makers have no idea how to interoperate with your kit.
Apple, you have made a brilliantly integrated and beautiful operating system. It’s widely regarded as being matchless in it’s usability. You were also the first to invent a universal photo-management application; Like all your products, you made it a thing of beauty and a joy to use; and then you invented iPhoto version five which keeps crashing and does not support the RAW file-formats of leading camera makers.
To Nikon I say, open up your formats before you upset your customers. To Apple I say, you had better sort this out quickly before Google port Picasa to the Mac platform.
Now if only we photo-geeks could find a way to bash some corporate heads together, who knows what might happen.
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