Lightroom Classic and Nikon Z9

[davidcoltphotography]

Lightroom Version Number

11.1

Operating System

1. macOS 12 Monterey

Just wondering if anyone has any insight as to when LRC is going to be ready for the Z9, in particular supporting the new raw formats and tethering.

 

[johnrellis]

According to dpreview.com, Nikon started shipping production units on 12/23/21. LR usually supports a new camera from a major manufacturer in the next LR release after production cameras first become available, sometimes in the release after that (e.g. if the cameras become available just before a release).

On average, LR releases every 8 weeks. LR 11.1 released on 12/14, so we might expect LR 11.2 around 2/8/22. That's just an educated prediction based on Adobe's past behavior over the years -- Adobe rarely announces release schedules, and I don't have any inside information.

 

[Jim Wilde]

According to this list: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html the Z9 is already supported (since 11.0). Not sure how they managed that, I guess for once Nikon provided Adobe with a pre-release camera? Tethering, however, is not yet available, I understand that the Nikon tethering SDK was not released until December.

 

[johnrellis]

Thanks for the correction! I searched the list for "Z9" (Dpreview's usual punctuation) not "Z 9" (Nikon's). I've only done that like 12 times.