Nik had been for many years, the go to collection of photographic editing plugins, and even with excellent stuff coming out of Macphun, now called Skylum and ON1 and Topaz and others, the death of Nik brought a chorus of cries. When Google announced that it was killing off the Nik Collection, serious photographers the world round, felt a movement in the Force and not the good kind. They have also updated their product formerly known as DxO Optics to DxO PhotoLab Elite 1 and are already incorporating Nik's unique U Point technology. I ran into that exact scenario last year with the introduction of the very popular Nikon Z fc in June of 2021.In case you had not heard, DxO has acquired all of the components of the Nik Collection from Google, and plans a new version in 2018. That is probably not the news you want to here.
As a result I suspect that support for the Canon R7 will require upgrading to the upcoming PhotoLab 6 in October. However, PhotoLab 6 will be released the 3d week in October and there most likely won’t be any more camera/lens updates to PhotoLab 5 past the end of August, at the very latest.
That would normally put support for the R7 towards the end of September. It generally takes DxO at least two months, and more often it takes around three months, to provide support for a new camera after it is released. How does it sync with Flickr accounts? Can it read all the albums, assign the images to the film rolls and track updates and republishing of images to Flickr? They are too noisey compared to viewing them in DPP and I it’s because Adobe Canon support for their image formats is really poor.ĭoes DxO offer better support? Canon users are looking for a good editing software since Abode Lightroom is failing so poorly. I’m currently using Lightroom and the built-in Canon R7 raw images are not what they should be.