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Personally I'm quite happy to continue my use of Nikon Capture NX2. I expect it to keep working on my Windows 7 machine at least for another couple of years.

If one day I find myself in possesion of a Nikon D750, or a D810, both of which are not supported by Capture NX2 I will turn to a utility by ...

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DxO Optics 10 can export a tiff or a jpeg to Lightroom, where it will appear ready for editing without user intervention, i.e. the usual import dialog in LR is bypassed. A plugin for LR coming with DxO Optics handles that.

This is not the same as directing LR to go to work on a raw file, but it ...

There are other cataloging systems out there using SQLite, such as Lightroom 5 and Capture One Pro 8.

Some users of Lightroom are happily running +500k catalogs, while Capture One users much sooner start to suffer performancewise.

This would suggest that there are other more important factors than ...