Donatzsky
May 3, 2026, 9:44am
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Nikon probably won’t, true, but IntoPIX very well might. They make money not just from licencing the encoder, but also the decoding SDK. And it seems that they insist their SDK must be used. If you want the situation to change, you should get in contact with IntoPIX.
https://www.nikoncafe.com/threads/nikon-he-he-nraw-support-as-of-31-march-2025.331229/
I spent the last month having a fun little science project. Even though not owning a Nikon camera at all, I tried if it’s possible to get a working decoder for the HE* bitstream with the help of Claude. When using samples from:
https://photographylife.com/nikon-z9-sample-images-raws (all copyright belongs to the author) the decoder produces this:
[decoded]
So you can see the colors are still off even when using WB coeffs from the EXIF and Color Matrix from Adobe. So the inverse MCT is still …
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