Nikon NX studio

[Ilkka Nissilä]

Nikon claims you need the said NikonID also for NX Studio v.1.80

I'm running v.1.70

I had 1.8 installed and it didn't require login. 1.9 does require it. I wonder why Nikon doesn't let people use it as a basic browser and editing program without having to log into their service online.

[Bruno Schroder]

Have you seen significant improvements since 1.5.0, except to support new cameras?
Still no Z body here, only D something.

[Frank Fremerey]

Have you seen significant improvements since 1.5.0, except to support new cameras?
Still no Z body here, only D something.

nikon claims the newly incarnated Z5 something is supported plus all other Zs

[whatdoido]

I had 1.8 installed and it didn't require login. 1.9 does require it. I wonder why Nikon doesn't let people use it as a basic browser and editing program without having to log into their service online.

Can you start and work in 1.9 after you've logged in and then disconnect from the internet?  like if you're working on your laptop with no connection?  if it requires online all the time then they've really ****ed this up

[Øivind Tøien]

Can you start and work in 1.9 after you've logged in and then disconnect from the internet?  like if you're working on your laptop with no connection?  if it requires online all the time then they've really ****ed this up

There is a 30-day counter that starts once off-line so at least 30 days allowed without being on the net. Hopefully the counter resets once on the net again, will know if trying offline again in a few days.

[Birna Rørslett]

NX Studio 1.70 & 1.80 are very slow fetching files across a network, and on Win11 just useless for anything not on the local computer.

I'll do a test install of 1.90 on Win11 to learn whether Nikon (or Microsoft) have got their act together, such that remote storage can be use. My hopes are not very high, though. Win11 is very buggy under its slick surface. Perhaps Win12 will clean up all the bugs?

[Nasos Kosmas]

Very recently I installed   NX studio ver 1.80 on a new laptop windows 10
I was a a long time studio NX user on other systems
This time Nikon asked me to provide camera type and serial number in order to install the 1.80 version
Will see what happens with a Nikon ID if I need to install 1.90 version

[Birna Rørslett]

NX Studio 1.90 on a fast Win11 machine with heaps of RAM and NVMe SSDs: loads and displays very fast on local files, absolutely glacially slow if network locations are accessed. Whether the latter issue is due to NX Studio, Win11, or a combination of the two, remains unclear. However, on the same machine, v. 1.80 behaved in a similar fashion, except it crashed frequently when I tried to browse files on my NAS boxes.

[Birna Rørslett]

I tried to "reset" the network adapters on my W11 machine. Now NX Studio 1.90 hangs for several minutes when browsing a networked drive folder. Absolutely hopeless junk. Let 1.90 deal with local files and the improvement in speed is amazing.

My suspicion grows that Microsoft somehow (--again--) have screwed up their OS. Since Nikon policy has been all the time to accept only the latest Windows version for their software, they receive the collateral damage.

Just imagine a future NX Studio, with a floating window layout, and able to run under a nice, super stable Linux distro. A pipe dream, I know. All I can do is dream.

[Jürgen Pfeiffer]

I'm here on a Mac which runs Capture One quite decent. Sliders react almost immediately, two monitor setup. Alltogether o.k., even if it is an old machine.

Nikon NX Studio on the other hand is barely unusable for me, every slider change takes seconds to refresh the picture, can't drink as much coffee as I have time watching the prooogresss...

My first digital camera was a D1, don't think that I saw a software from Nikon that was competitive since this time.

Do you guys have better experiences with Nikon software? Maybe under Windows?

[Øivind Tøien]

There is a 30-day counter that starts once off-line so at least 30 days allowed without being on the net. Hopefully the counter resets once on the net again, will know if trying offline again in a few days.

After rollover of two dates using it online, starting offline again reset the counter to 30. So it appears to be a countdown for each offline session.