Re: [Nikon D100 D200] Re: Capture NX vs ...

Hi Carl...

NO problem ! :-)

I usually go to 15-25%, not much as it will flattern the image and remove 
sharpen quite a bit ; and for sharpening, use 5 to 7, not more than that... 
i want to keep the details on the feathers when I do bird photography...

I then do Unsharp mask....20-40 and Radius at 3 to 5...

I do lots of bird photography with pure blurred background so I can't afford 
to have noise on those, and the D200 and the D2X, at 400 ISO, will produce a 
fairly large amount of noise, specially if your histogram is off-center to 
the left. You have to push it to the right...

What I did also recently is put the contrast config to "LOW" in the camera 
menus; Yes you could still do this in Capture NX or 4.4 afterwards but it 
dosn't give you the same effect. Everything is happening when you shoot, not 
when you post-process... Doing so incerased the Dynamic Range of both 
cameras and improve my shooting tremendosly !

Everybody knows that the pictures that comes out of any Nikon camera is 
fairly contrasty compare to the big C.... ; and I have to compare and 
compete with lots and lots of Canon owners in nature photography... So it 
facilitate my post processing quite a bit !

hope it helps !

Marc
www.pbase.com/beluptiga

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Carlton McEachern
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Nikon D100 D200] Re: Capture NX vs ...


Marc - in NC 4.4, what settings do you use for noise, if you don't mind my
asking

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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nikon D100 D200] Re: Capture NX vs ...

I would add to this that Capture NX and Capture 4.4 handles the noise
reduction in a much better way than Adobe softwares... For probably the same
reasons as mentionned below...

Iwas used to use ACR to handle my RAW files and put away Capture 4.4 or NX
and I came back to those 2, much specially Capture 4.4... And I don't
complaint about the background noise anymore on my D200 and my D2X
pictures...

Just my 2 cents !

Marc
www.pbase.com/beluptiga

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Jones
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: [Nikon D100 D200] Re: Capture NX vs ...

I did a fairly thorough personal evaluation of Lightroom vs Capture NX.
Here are my conclusions:

o In my experience, CNX is slow, buggy, and has an awkward interface. I
regularly see the annoying "line at the top left" bug and CNX crashes
fairly often. On the good side, the color control points are powerful
and intuitive. I often use them to fix problems. The color produced by
CNX is fantastic.

o Lightroom is very well engineered and very fast: it takes full
advantage of my dual-core processor. I like the interface and the
combination of tools. I didn't try the printing support, because I use
Qimage. The problem with Lightroom is the color. Because Adobe doesn't
have access to all of the Nikon settings stored in the RAW file, it's
nearly impossible (for me at least) to produce similar colors. I was
never able to match the output of CNX.

Bottom line: while I prefer almost everything about Lightroom
(especially the speed), I'm using CNX because of the color. The control
points are a nice bonus.

Robert

> 2a. Re: Capture NX vs ...
> Posted by: "Rick Gordon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] rgordon280
> Date: Wed May 23, 2007 9:03 pm ((PDT))
>
> yeah, i haven't given up on it, but I was feeling rather exasperated
> that as I added changes to the image pipeline it just seemed to bog down
> rather severely. I've not really played with the control points yet,
> nor gotten into much of the interface - but either something was
> wrong or
> its not going to be an every day workflow item. Bridge/PS certainly
> work much better in that regard, and both Aperture and LightRoom also
> show that there's potential to do things fast.
>
> I'll check out the Nikonians forum and see what there is there.

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