Apple released a very inexpensive upgrade to it's operating system, named Snow Leopard a couple weeks ago. Developers have had access to release candidates for the OS for months. Unfortunately, not all of them have made efforts to get their software compatible - Nikon is one of these slackers.

I checked Nikon's support site and even emailed them, and their message was:

"Thank you for Contacting Nikon Support, Compatibility and support for Nikon software running on Macintosh 10.6 system is under review by the Nikon Quality department.

At this time we do not have any time table on when we will or if we will issue drivers and software support for this new system. We truly apologize for the any inconvenience that this may cause you."

What kind of BS is this? We pay a premium price for Nikon stuff, as well as the RAW editing software (Capture NX2). Why this attitude?

Most Mac users will upgrade to the new OS - it's inexpensive, faster, and apparently gives users more hard drive space. So, how does this arrogant stance benefit Nikon?

For me, I'll have to either wait on upgrading my OS, or completely move away from using Nikon Software (which I'd just started to learn).