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Nikon Responds to Encryption Claims
ader writes "In a rare response to public complaints, Nikon has released a statement clarifying the use of encrypted white balance information in the NEF raw data from its digital cameras. They point out that this 'proprietary' format is accessible through the use of their 'proprietary' SDK, which is freely available to 'bona fide software companies' on written application. In other words: open source coders can butt out."
oh... wrong Nikon, sorry.
"In other words, "Would all the tech-saavy people in the audience please discourage everyone they know from buying our products"."
Yeah! That's how we took down Microsoft!!
"Derp de derp."
Isn't it great that nikon SDK info is in adobe's pdf ?. pdf
http://www.nikonusa.com/kdb/sdk/nikon_SDK_request
*somewhere in a badly-dubbed Canon underground research base*
A: Sir! The decryption process is complete! We have their top secret white balance data!
Captain: Hurry up boy, we haven't got all day!
A: The numbers are... 32, 198, 53, 52, and 3.4253E-08!
B: My God! Thats --
Captan: Yes, its as I feared, the Japanese have mastered the ultimate ancient technique Silent White Tiger Balanced Fist of Left Justified Saturation. We must memorize these numbers so we may mimic their technique and use their own weapon against them in our final battle on the next episode.
*meanwhile, in reality...*
Nikon most definitely has some juicy technology here and there that a competitor would want to know about.
Riiiight. And rather than take the camera apart and read the code straight off the ROM, they're going to stock up on AA's and take a thousand pictures and 2 thousand man-hours to figure out what that white balance data means.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.