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Hogan confirms Nikon firmware defeats 3 rd party products.
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<blockquote data-quote="Nathan Lanni" data-source="post: 231274" data-attributes="member: 14629"><p>While I appreciate your approach - you have to be 100% percent confident in those situations - I'm still a little incredulous. I may end up with mud on my face, but I hope not for the benefit of the Nikon community, and Nikon as a company, and here's why.</p><p></p><p>Nikon's legacy compatibility with cpu lenses, flashes, etc., goes way back. Doing huge changes to their code would affect their legacy products as well. Furthermore, no doubt Nikon was very tight lipped with how their firmware code works, just like Microsoft was/is with all the other third party companies out there that make M$ Windows compatible software apps. </p><p></p><p>Sigma and Tamron are Nikon competitors, and Nikon ultimately benefits from Sigma and Tamron being in the lens market (because it stimulates sales for everyone) Nikon will not share their firmware code with either company. It's up to the 3rd party companies like Sigma to reverse engineer other company's code - say a Nikon camera body - so their products will work. They have to buy Nikon\Canon\Olympus\etc. products just like you and me, then tweak their products to get full compatibility. This goes on with every new model the OEM's make.</p><p></p><p>Nikon, no doubt is just like M$ or Canon and everyone else that tweaks their proprietary code. A whole range of incompatibilities crop up. The intent isn't to cause chaos, even though that's the result, and it doesn't effect everyone or every compatible product out there. It's hit or miss depending upon how well the 3rd party companies sleuth M$ code, or in this case Nikon's code.</p><p></p><p>It's really bad policy for Nikon to intentionally do something like this. Not saying they didn't, but the Nikon exec's know they will generate tons of ill will toward their product and permanently drive customers away from their product lines.</p><p></p><p>I'm guessing if there are incompatibilities with 3rd party products, the companies will analyze their product and make appropriate changes. Hopefully they will notifiy their client base and help them out.</p><p></p><p>FWIW</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nathan Lanni, post: 231274, member: 14629"] While I appreciate your approach - you have to be 100% percent confident in those situations - I'm still a little incredulous. I may end up with mud on my face, but I hope not for the benefit of the Nikon community, and Nikon as a company, and here's why. Nikon's legacy compatibility with cpu lenses, flashes, etc., goes way back. Doing huge changes to their code would affect their legacy products as well. Furthermore, no doubt Nikon was very tight lipped with how their firmware code works, just like Microsoft was/is with all the other third party companies out there that make M$ Windows compatible software apps. Sigma and Tamron are Nikon competitors, and Nikon ultimately benefits from Sigma and Tamron being in the lens market (because it stimulates sales for everyone) Nikon will not share their firmware code with either company. It's up to the 3rd party companies like Sigma to reverse engineer other company's code - say a Nikon camera body - so their products will work. They have to buy Nikon\Canon\Olympus\etc. products just like you and me, then tweak their products to get full compatibility. This goes on with every new model the OEM's make. Nikon, no doubt is just like M$ or Canon and everyone else that tweaks their proprietary code. A whole range of incompatibilities crop up. The intent isn't to cause chaos, even though that's the result, and it doesn't effect everyone or every compatible product out there. It's hit or miss depending upon how well the 3rd party companies sleuth M$ code, or in this case Nikon's code. It's really bad policy for Nikon to intentionally do something like this. Not saying they didn't, but the Nikon exec's know they will generate tons of ill will toward their product and permanently drive customers away from their product lines. I'm guessing if there are incompatibilities with 3rd party products, the companies will analyze their product and make appropriate changes. Hopefully they will notifiy their client base and help them out. FWIW [/QUOTE]
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