An up to date i-phone would blow these photos out of the water. Today's cell phones are perfectly adequate for the average person. They will never compete with DSLRs because they would have to be much larger to accommodate the sensors, lenses and manual settings necessary to do so. And cell phones are not good in low light. It is expected that P&S cameras will be discontinued shortly because most cell phones equal them in photo quality. But who knows what future technology will bring with DSLRs.

Nikon responded and gave me a new link to their latest version that combines both NXi and NX-D. Both are new versions.

My result and reply back to Nikon.

Downloaded the combined program on the HP windows 10 Home computer. It downloads and installs. NXi would not open just as before. NX-D opened and ran but it was so slow to be of any practical value. I did not create a new admin since even if it worked the work flow would be impractical. View NX2 runs fine on this machine. Not slow.

I also tried the combined program on the custom machine. It would not load, got the same message as in initial post. Down loaded the single version of the new NX-D program on this computer and it down loaded, installed and runs just fine.

The never ending saga continues...

It was a bit of a cat and mouse game, although our roles were reversed. The bobcat played the role of mouse, and I was the cat.

I was out hiking, yesterday, and, while descending a hill, I saw some motion, in the distance. It was a bobcat, going up the hill I was coming down.

One of the reasons I love photographing bobcats is that they don't usually bolt, immediately. I can often persuade a bobcat to pose for me, for a little while. Sometimes, the cat wants to make me work for it. Yesterday was such a day.

There are a lot of pictures that accompany this tale, but most of them are looking at the south end of a northbound bobcat. The cat would periodically stop, and check up on me, as if to make sure I was still following her. I followed this cat for approximately one-half hour. I would occasionally lose her, but she'd make sure I found her, again. She did stop, and allowed me to take a lovely portrait, and then took off, again. I kept following until she finally went down a gorge that I just couldn't enter. It was a lot of fun.