Adobe Lightroom update for Nikon D-850,When?

[Rory]

Out of curiosity, how was Adobe able to update the DNG converter and ACR to work with the D850 the day it was released if they did not get advance information or there was a change to the format you have been talking about Andrew?  It seems to be standard practise to only release LR ~ 4 times per year so camera updates have to wait for the next release.  It is odd to have to reinstall the entire program to get camera updates - why isn't there a separate library to do this that could be updated whenever.  I suspect the design is not modular in this respect.

BTW, I've written my own image viewer and I'm not seeing anything significantly different in the D850 files.  As Bart has mentioned the CFA might be different and there is extra metadata for the additional "natural" WB.

Please do not take this as an attack on either you, Andrew, or Adobe.  I'm just curious.

[digitaldog]

Out of curiosity, how was Adobe able to update the DNG converter and ACR to work with the D850 the day it was released if they did not get advance information or there was a change to the format you have been talking about Andrew?

Did I say that in this case, they didn't?
Is this historically the norm? No. And what about 3rd party raw converters that don't support DNG; did most have a version available on release day? I'm not a Nikon shooter (at least not recently) so I honestly don't know how long any of this took for this Nikon model but my desire would be at the very least, customers would have a DNG Converter that understands the new file the day that file becomes released to it's customers. But for non DNG users, they are still SOL here . Again, this is political, not an issue that couldn't be addressed with current technology. Until the customer base makes their desires made to the people who make these products, nothing will change.