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Capture NX 2 still gives me the best distortion free pic for my lens. Have not had a chance to test out the official release of Lightroom 3, but I am using it regularly now.
Overall, my initial thoughts remain. LR3 offers a great workflow and image quality that is in many ways as good or better than NX 2. The one thing that has me coming back to Capture NX 2 is the color rendition for critical work. I still think that NX 2 is the best way to go for more pleasing color. After installing LR3, I was very optimistic that I would be able to use it as my editor of choice.
Sports shots the worst! Thanks for the great review, I wont give up on LR3 and might just use it as a cataloguer like you mentioned. I used to feel that way as well, but quickly discovered that much of this initial disappointment stemmed from too much dependence on Active D-Lighting. With ADL turned off, the differences become less obvious, especially if you use the imitated Nikon color profiles in Lightroom. It seems to be a more neutral starting point for color and contrast in most cases.
Thanks for doing this. But Adobe seems determined to not fix their problem with banding in gradations. So at least NX2 gives me a choice. Thanks again!
I have been battling these gradient issues with Lightroom and it has never struck me before that I should test the images with these gradient issues in Capture NX instead. I always thought this was due to the sensor in my Nikon D, not something that Capture NX could fix.
I have noticed the same thing with the incandescent lights, they can blow out in very unpleasant ways. Same thing here, I this was the sensor on the D Thank you for the information and time you put into the write-up. I have been using LR since it first came out. I am currently using the new beta 3.
I have always liked the results I get with LR and the camera specific profiles. Thank you so much for leaving this post up. I have Lightroom 2. I learned a lot from your post and am very impressed by your dedicated responses to so many replies.
Thanks for your generosity in sharing your expertise. I wrote up a quickstart on what features that I find most useful in Capture One when compared with other tethered or base photo editing applications like Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw. Hello, take a look at the first crops of Karen O. Do you see the outburnded lights in the face with LR3?!!! After reading this article, I have a clear choice in mind. Thankyou heaps! This information is what I was looking for. If I was doing high volume on steady basis the LR3 organization and editing would be a plus….
Thanks Todd for the great review. Thank you for the analysis. So much contrast between snow, mountain, and sky. Thank you for YOUR post. You said that you used default sharpening in both programs. What is the default sharpening in Nikon Capture? There is no default sharpening in Nikon Capture.
I like Nikon Capture because I alwasy see at first what my NEF look like straight from the camera I also use no enhancements in the camera, normal curves, normal saturation, no sharpening, no D-Lighting.
I agree with you that the noise reduction feature in Adobe products is better than in Nikon Capture. I also use zero sharpening when I use Noise Reduction, in any software. Articles See All. Essential Lenses for Concert Photography.
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About ishootshows Support this site Contact Business Inquiries. Lightroom 3 vs Nikon Capture NX 2. Photography Gear Software. Let's look at how Capture NX 2 and Lightroom 3 handle this common effect in live music. Left: Capture NX 2; Right: Lightroom 3 While the RAW conversion of both images is very close as seen in the full frame of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler , this detail of defocused lights shows the subtle difference between the two in the rendition of mono-color light sources.
More on this difference in super-saturation later. Let's look at another example. Let's take a look at how the two conversion engines handle detail. Example 3: Karen O. Top: Capture NX 2; Bottom: Lightroom 3 Continuing on the thread of channel saturation, we again see from this sample that Lightroom seems to have issues rendering a smooth gradation as color channels approach saturation.
End Notes: Clearly, Adobe Lightroom has come a very long way from its earlier versions in the third major release, even in its beta phase. Hey Pat, Glad to share the info. Hey Pat, The Lightroom 3 beta is a free trial until the full release, so check it out if you have the time.
Hi Ryan, Thanks for the comment. Hey Lluis, Yes, even with a top-end machine, NX 2 is really only bearable; hardly ideal. Hi Thomas, Great to hear from you, hope everything is well with you. Hey Zepouet, Thanks for the comment. Hi Todd, thanks for this post. Cheers Sven. Nikon NX Studio is the company's photo editing software! One of the great things about this new app is that it is free. Nikon decided to replace its previous editing software since it failed to offer a complete feature set.
Since the tech giant manufacturer released its latest photo editing software, this issue might be resolved. But, professional photographers can't use them to edit photos captured by the latest Nikon DLSR models.
I like the idea of using NX Studio for raw conversion and Lightroom for cataloguing. NX Studio does not yet handoff to Photoshop if you set it up as an external editor, it is promised in a future update. Adds an extra step but then you can go from NX Studio edits to Photoshop with just an extra click.
I find shadow recovery in NX Studio far better than Adobe's version and plan to switch to using NX Studio for processing for most of my work. EricBowles Moderator Supporting Member.
I hosted the Nikonians webinar with Vincent Versace last week. He has used Nikon software for the front end of his workflow since the original Capture software. He believes Studio NX is a very good program as long as you understand that this is the 1. It's not perfect, but there are reasonable workarounds. He is starting in Studio NX then finishing in Photoshop or other programs. Lightroom has it's place for higher volume work.
The ability to apply settings from one image to another or a group of images provides a very nice workflow. But that's a different type of editing compared to the fine art images and individual image editing Versace is doing with Studio NX.
Ad Astra said:. Palouse Well-known member. Hermann said:. Don't forget NX is still the first version, and for a first version it's already pretty good, like you said. I'm sure it will turn into a much more polished piece of software quite soon. Palouse said:. Learn more about the D3X Archived. Learn more about the DS Archived. Learn more about the D3S Archived. Learn more about the D60 Archived. Learn more about the D50 Archived. Learn more about the D1H Archived. Learn more about the D2H Archived.
Learn more about the D1X Archived. Learn more about the D70 Archived. All perfectly matched to distance in front of and behind the focus plane. You use the eyedropper picker in LightRoom to pick the unwanted, artefact outline color in front of and in back of the focus plane respectively. Sometimes it is very successful and all the cast in usually the branches disappear magically in th eentire image.
Sometimes it only works in some small parts of the image and not in other parts of the image, and sometimes it only partly removes the outlines. Hence you take "it cant be fixed" is wrong. Happy shooting! This statement is useless to the ones that seek pros and cons of the sw: "I'd wager that most NX-i users won't have the first clue what "axial color aberration" means" My guess is that the same users will not know what Chromatic Aberration means either.
Instead of guesses I would have appreciated some inkling of how this actually works in comparison to Adobe's sw. They would. Axial CA is a fancy name for the greenish cast towards the back, or red towards the front of areas in sharp focus. Not at all keen on anything from Adobe since their user information database has been hacked - at least two times. HI I'm surprised that one compares a paid software and a free software, I'm surprised that are not compared Darktable, RawTherapee, Ufraw, which are all free and very powerful.
The interest was to compare a builder software free with other free software. I'm surprised that the editor could compare these softwares and give an opinion on a laptop screen, maybe not even calibrated Finally, taking this test seriously, I find it very surprising that this same editor accepts the color drifts given by adobe. Astonishing all this! Moreover, you cant calibrate the laptop monitor. Its not possible to hardware calibrate a laptop monitor.
The only thing you do is that you software calibrate the graphic card in only 8 bits. Fantastic article. People smarter than I have created all sorts of useful profiles including a very convincing Tri-X and a not-bad Kodachrome. For jpeg shooters, the ability to load custom presets into the camera is a powerful feature, one that Adobe cannot touch. Thank you for your trouble and Nikon is pretty much out of the picture with a non-flexible noise reduction routine, because I never use Capture NxD because I am still!
Just using one tool sounds like not possible at all. I need 3 tools because they supplement each other, each adding unique functions. Sometimes I use no.
If the perspective gets crazy I change it in Photoshop which is where I also add missing pieces in my handheld panoramas. I find "Less pleasing color than Nikon's software by default" and "Leaves significantly more noise in images by default" as cons for ACR just weird, since raw converters are about profiles. Why not just start the raw converter software with a profile that suit your taste, since there are many profiles included - no matter the name of the software. See my comment above. The idea that Nikon profiles are some sort of perfection is a little weird.
OOC generally steeper. Thanks for the very detailed review. My concern is that the review turned an ACR advantage into a disadvantage. Nikon's noise control was shown to be overly aggressive and uncontrollable, tending towards plasticy looking images. ACR on the other hand is very controllable and can remove a lot of noise if required, all be it, at the expense of sharpness.
The review stated this as a problem with ACR when its controlability is actually a benefit. The reason why there are two programs is that in the old days, ViewNXi was offered for free, whereas Capture-NXd was a paid program. View came free with each camera, Capture did not. View is no longer needed, though, and even if it has some adjustments that Capture doesn't have, I think it is completely superfluous.
The article should have concluded so, and suggested that users stick with Capture and forget about View. The View NX software was always free. As a raw processor it doesn't get very much better than that. For those who need the color editor or tethering you can upgrade to the Capture One Pro version. We use C1 for all our work except for our Hasselblad cameras and it is stellar.
Nikon has indeed been removed from Capture One Express. Implying you went through their entire website? I think not. A lot of websites are organized like junk.
Always google where you want to go, if you want to advise others. Just make double sure :- I did google before my first post, but the C1 site 2 took ages to load for some reason. And yes, it is confusing, that they have a page with only Fuji and Sony, but keep calm and google some more and ye shall find LOL.
Not bad. I highly appreciated these interesting comparisons and as retired pro-photographer the most important for me is the easy and fast understanding of an editing photo software, with of course a wide range of really efficient parameters to get the finest desirable result. The free softwares of Nikon are not bad but they don't bring to me what I need, even the "conversion" to another format: Tiff and Jpeg, nothing else though converting a NEF to a DNG would be so appreciated, namely for enabling the future necessary color management of your work creating the camera profile, calibrating the monitor when retouching, the correspondance between the photo colors on screen and its output on the photo dedicated pro-printer thanks to the ICC profiles of the used papers.
Camera Raw enables this because by saving the raw and its chosen parameters in DNG. DNG is really a must for me and Nikon does not enable this I have used Capture NX-d and like it. I have not heard good things about the Fuji raw converter which is based on silkypix. I think you'd have to resort to editing the exif to make that one work tricking the software to think you have nikon files. Flow - no, I am not talking specifically about this article, but OEM raw editors in general.
I am only familiar with CNX-d. But I think every OEM has their own raw editor. I am curious about Fuji - is their raw editor any good? I have been given to understand that Nikon's software is also based on Silkypix. I used the Fuji version 7 or 8 years ago and it worked pretty much the same as NX-D. Slow, but with some weird and interesting adjustment possibilities. I use View NX-I almost exclusively. It does what I need at this point and as the post says its far easier to use for basic edits that Capture.
But the problem I'm currently encountering and I know I'm not the only one is the blockage of final photo processing with my new MacBook Air M1. Once the changes are made on the photos, I launch the final conversion and the file remains in the queue. Nothing happens. It's been going on for weeks and, for the moment, no update has solved the problem at least not for the French version of Capture NX-D.
Capture NX-d is slide-car just like lightroom, your edit save is saved to a separate folder which only the software can read. Capture NX like older Nikon capture has u-point adjustment, don't think view has it. For View, you can see your edit on any computers with View if you move or copy the file. For editing speed slidecar is faster, because for View every commends is saved as you edit and you get a short freeze on a slower computer. While Nikon software looks more like what it should be, I still prefer Lightroom 6 for editing options.
Why I open capture nx along with lightroom sometimes to make sure I know what the color color is. I do have calibrated duel monitors.
What, ok thanks for the update. I guess I haven't gotten the latest version. I just use capture nx d. Good to know. That is because Adobe is miles ahead of any other software for AI Auto that actually works. I used the auto adjustments for a short period and still find them occasionally useful Smart Lighting can bring shadows up without compromising highlights quickly and well, lens adjustments are great if you want an absolutely clinically optically correct image — I often don't. For NR, I find that a setting around 12 for DeepPrime and 20 for Prime almost always provide the most natural looking results.
Generally no longer a fan of automated clarity as images basically look oversharpened in every program: if you are looking for more clarity, the Fine slider in the Contrast section is the most important tool for natural looking pop.
Returning to automated settings, DxO Photolab will adjust all of the above on opening any image if that's the preset you choose. I've got my preferred settings as the starting preset, as that gives me the exact starting point I like for my own corrections.
If a given set requires a tweak to that starting preset, it's easy to build takes about ten seconds. I'll step in and put in a good word for CNX-D. It's free, it's full function, and I find it easy enough to use.
With these things, it always comes down to familiarity and I've been quite a few years now. First View NX is not designed for editing- it is a viewer. Capture NX-D is. Second the Nikon softwares produce more accurate colour than Adobe. The Nikon softwares LACK the ability to increase micro-contrast with the far better noise reduction and sharpening that DXO has, and Adobe softwares are handicapped by the crude 0. I regularly use 0. DXO also provides a better gradation to Nikon Raw files over the Adobe softwares, which are convenient but hardly able to do justice to anything as the sharpening is so very crude with high res images.
If you like Nikon software colors better, that's fine, but don't get carried away. Lightroom's sharpening is the best I've found with the best balance of artifacts and detail. It's nice to have all those controls all together in one spot. If you don't want to become a professional computer jockey instead of a photographer - CNX-d is so much faster to get good colors than playing with dials and switches in ACR all day long. Lightroom's Camera Standard is one of the best raw conversions available without any need for neurotic color twiddling.
No, actually, Lightroom's interface is by FAR the easiest, fastest and most intuitive. Tutorials are available if you're having trouble. String - then, the camera? Because apart from custom white balance - most people just let the camera choose and then do adjustments in post. I would rather spend my time with contrast white point, black point, and curves than spend all of my time fiddling around in ACR trying to get good color.
NX-d give me good color easily. You have no need to use ACR, that's what LR is for; make, buy or download a custom profile and set it up to apply to all your nef files on import These little low res thumbnails are moronic, and thats being nice about it. The interface is a essentially a cross platform java app-style, and it looks inoffensive but nothing close to a modern UI stack.
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If you are following my blog since it's early days, you probably know that I started my photography journey as a hobby with a Nikon D60 back in Since then, I am shooting with Nikon camera. It took me few months to get familiar with different camera settings but after knowing how it works, I found it very easy to use and never thought of switching to another brand, not because I hated other brands but simply I started loving Nikon cameras, it's controls and settings and the wide varieties of lenses it offers.
After playing with the D60 for a year, I upgraded to D90 and then after couple of years, I bought my first full frame DSLR, D one of the best camera I ever owned , which I am still shooting with happily. But I think it's time to upgrade my D to get more dynamic range and higher pixel in the image sensor to either D or D which I haven't decided yet but I am leaning towards the D for few reasons which I will share with you once I pull the trigger.
Initially, during my learning phase, I used to shoot only in a JPEG format but later when I discovered the advantage of shooting in a RAW format and post processing techniques, I started looking for good post processing software.
After doing some research on the software and since I was already shooting with Nikon camera, I went with Nikon's image editing software, Capture NX2. It was a good choice and working great and most importantly, I was very happy with it until Nikon pulled the plug and announced that they are not going to update the software anymore and released their newer editing software, Capture NX-D, instead.
I had no choice but look for alternatives and thought of giving a try to Adobe Lightroom which is probably the most popular image editing software in the current market. I downloaded a 7 days free trial version of an Adobe Lightroom and started playing with it. Since I would like to keep things simple and make life easier, I was looking for one stop solution to edit RAW images and create an HDR image out of multiple bracketed shots as well if I ever wanted to.
When I discovered that the latest Adobe Lightroom does both effectively, first thing I wanted to try was to create an HDR image with it. The process was very easy; import all the multi exposure files into the lightroom and then right click those files to merge them into an HDR it also had an option to merge into Panorama if you want to create a panoramic image using multiple shots.
And to be honest, I got really impressed with all the tools it provides for color controls, image sharpening, dealing with noises, lens error corrections and various other touch up tools.
If you want to see the camera settings I used for this shot, please read my earlier blog post about Setup I used for Night Cityscape Shots. After creating an HDR image, I also added some color tones to highlight some of the image area, sky for example.
You can see more range of colors and visible clouds in an HDR version whereas those details were lost in a single exposure shot above.
The beauty of the Lightroom is that while creating an HDR image, it creates a DNG Digital Negative file which is also non-destructive RAW file and you can edit it further if you want to adjust more color tones or any other settings you like. I am not writing this blog to favor one software over another but after using Capture NX2 for little over five years, I think Adobe Lightroom came out as the best alternative for me.
If you are already using Lightroom or any other image editing software, please share your experience in the comment section below. View fullsize. Happy Shooting! Mar 15, Magic Of Adobe Lightroom. Jun 28, Jun 13, Apr 22, Understanding Dynamic Range Of Colors. Net All Rights Reserved.
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