Nonsense, according to Bernard's remark that Iridient Developer already supports* it. It's not the Camera makers, it's the software makers that need to catch up. Of course, if the camera makers would stop inventing new features, they could keep the Raw-file contents the same, and easy to translate/convert ...
First, it's not nonsense, there are piles of raw converters other than Adobe's that don't yet support the file format. I happen to use and love ID and perhaps Brian got ahold of a raw file early on, or from a beta tester, don't know. Point is, Brian and Adobe
and everyone else has to get a file to decode and support.
That shouldn’t be necessary! Clearly it isn't with JPEG. 2nd, Brian
and everyone else has to spend time and money updating their products. It dilutes their productivity working on other items we end users need. Even if it took Brian 10 minutes to decode the new file, it's far, far more than 10 minutes total work to test, build installers, upload and inform the community etc. So yes, it totally IS the camera makers falut, they could easily produce a raw file that didn't need any of this work to support the new raw. Or be open to send a raw to anyone who needs it early to support their raw converters before the camera ships. The other software makers
shouldn’t have to catch up, that's the point. Nikon, Canon and all the companies that continue to make differing raw formats for each camera are the cause of the need to catch up, that's the only way I can see it and the reason why the newest cameras that spit out a JPEG (of which many of us don't want) have zero issues the minute the camera ships.
