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D2x - May be great, but who can tell?
Leslie Billman, Photographer
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Annapolis | Md | USA | Posted: 7:22 PM on 02.28.05 |
| ->> Ach. I picked up my D2X today and raced home, intending to photograph amazing images of my pets and then edit minimally and watch the images grow from RAW to Photoshop. of course, it didn't happen. As pointed out in another thread, Photoshop hasn't caught up with D2X, and so there's no raw image editing. I took the advice from another thread, downloaded Nikon Capture Trial (which necessitated first deleting the existing and then downloading the newest Nikon View) and opening the images in this sort of foreign environment (to me). I found Nikon Capture to be slow and COMPLETELY unfamiliar, having perfected quick and efficient RAW file treatment of D2H images in the Photoshop Plug-in. alas, there's no plug-in (yet) for D2X and I'm wondering HOW LONG, LORD? Seems like Adobe is asleep at the wheel and should have had a plug-in for RAW files before, not after, the D2X was released. In any event, I'm frustrated. The images look great in thumbnail, but every time I try to edit one in Nikon Capture, the computer bogs down, slows down, closes the program, and I'm told that a serious error has occurred and would I like to send word of it to Bill Gates? NO. I just want to be able to look at my images from the D2X. How long will it take Adobe to update their RAW plugin? |
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Greg Ferguson, Photographer
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Scottsdale | Az | USA | Posted: 7:28 PM on 02.28.05 |
->> The problem is that Nikon doesn't supply a finished version of the firmware of the camera to Adobe until the camera ships.
Adobe could use a preliminary version of the camera, and spend many hours recoding their RAW conversion to work with that particular camera rev. based on Nikon's promise that nothing would change... and then guess what would happen?
Nikon would make a change and waste that effort and money.
I am sure Adobe has been burned too many times for them to play that game again, so they wait until the body ships, then work from a "final" version of the firmware. |
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Ernie Rice, Photographer
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Paragould | AR | USA | Posted: 7:52 PM on 02.28.05 |
->> Leslie, don't edit them all in Nikon Capture. Put all your similar photos in one file, open one in Capture, make your exposure, contrast and color adjustments...or whatever else, then on the toolbar about 2/3 of the way down hit the batch button.
In the Batch window set the source folder where you put the NEF files, then click the button to apply current settings(that basic adjustment that you made will then be applied to all the photos), then set the destination folder. Set the format to TIFF, 16bit, uncompressed and then hit start and go get a beer.
Then open the TIFF's. Personaly I've always found Capture to produce better results than ACR even though it is slower. :-) |
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Rick Rickman, Photographer
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Laguna Niguel | CA | USA | Posted: 8:07 PM on 02.28.05 |
->> Leslie:
I have developed a workflow with Nikon's Raw images that I think works really well. It involves using Photo Mechanic to view the raw thumbnails. Then using NIKON capture 4.2 to make all my raw adjustments on one image and saving the image adjustments for a batch of all the similar images.
Nikon Capture raw adjustments are integrated with the NEF files and do a much better job of adjusting than Adobe's raw conversions do. I say this because I have done both systems and the results you can achieve using Nikon Capture to adjust Nikon Nef files is far superior to the results possible with Adobe.
My suggestion is this. put as much ram memory in your system as possible. Use a computer with the fastest processing speed you can find and ultimately you will be very pleased with the results of this process.
I have had no problem processing and batching the images from the D2X using this system. I am using a G-5 Dual proccssor 2.o GHZ system with 2 Gigs of RAM. This system fires through the images every bit as fast as it did with the raw files from the D2H.
As the size of files grow it's going to become necessary to use all the processing speed you can get your hands on. Just FYI.
Rick Rickman |
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Pat Farrington, Photographer
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Scott Bush, Photographer
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Clifton | NJ | USA | Posted: 11:41 PM on 02.28.05 |
->> leslie,
play around in Nikon Capture and you will relize how much more powerful it is over the Adobe Plug-in. And you may never need the upgrade.
scott |
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