routlaw
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Yes its a huge improvement and perceptually to me the best of all the conversions including the rendition from C1 with IQ180 which really is too warm IMHO. The NX2 conversion looked too clinical and anemic for my taste. This is why I have been emphatic for years now that you don't need NX/NX2 for the best raw file conversions.First of all thank you for all of your very informative and helpful posts regarding the 800. Can you please clarify the above?...... are you saying that ACR has a built in profile for the 800 that was supplied by Nikon? Its a big improvement.... just very curious.
Victor
Too clarify, its really hard to answer your question with absolute certainty but this would be my guess that these profiles are straight out of the camera and identical from within the menu system of the camera. They match 100% verbatim the menu selection.
Thanks Uwe, that did it. Had not realized these latest versions of NX2 had gone to 64 bit mode or maybe they haven't and are just trying to under a 64 bit OS. It was my understanding on the Mac platform it was still a 32 bit program.>along with updater to get it to version 2.3.1 is so terrible that it 'Cannot Load File' even when that file is a small jpeg, let alone a NEFF file from either D800 or D7000 or indeed any file whatsoever. Nikon support page has no indication as to why. I'm on a mac pro with 16GB of RAM, latest OS and loads of fast disc space...
I had exactly the same issues. Switched NX2 to 32 bit and all was fine.
Dave I know this pain all too well, in fact I bought the first D1 classic in the region where I live and remember paying $500 for the first iteration of Nikon Capture. Had to be the worse $500 I have ever spent in photography and then there were the upgrades. Its astonishing to this very day Nikon makes such great cameras but produces some of the worst software (Capture Control excluded) imaginable. They should be paying us to beta test this stuff rather than trying to sell it on the open market.All expressed above regarding Capture is why I continually avoid using it at almost all costs. Sure if I have a particular file where there is some aspect where running it through Capture provides some distinct advantage, I"ll hold my nose and proceed...otherwise I'll accept certain small compromises and run large # of Raw files through something else.
You think the current version is bad now...some here should have been around using it in the earliest days when it wad first released. It was truly a nightmare and Nikon has had all these qqqyears of feedback requesting the program match the quality of their cameras. To their credit, they did make major upgrades to the prrogram, rendering it from unusable and near worthlessness to it"s present incarnation.
Dave (D&A)
Regardless, hold your nose no longer and use the method I just described and I think you will be thrilled with the results. That way you'll have both hands now to operate the keyboard. :ROTFL: