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Mine stays in the box - I'm just refusing to put a different RAW program into my workflow, If Aperture won't do it, then it won't get done!Loaded it yesterday .... arrgh! Yet another unintuitive RAW program to wade through. All I want to do is simple WB. I must have an overload block or something.
That's why I'm trying to learn it Neil. :thumbup:Ya'know I understand not wanting to have yet another RAW program or maybe any other program to learn. NX is fairly alien to many and it just doesn't flow like some of the others but for those of you who swear that no way will they use NX you will never get the full benefit of the Hi ISO of the D3 without it. Maybe not even the full benefit of the D3 period.
CS3 and ACR can't do a D3 file from 3200 and up nearly as well as NX. Maybe even from 1600 and up. I can't speak for Aperture or C1.
That and many of the in camera features you can't make use of which I'm sure your sure you don't need. Until you've tried them....................
You owe it to yourself to try it against your favorite RAW convertor. And give NX a chance, not a week but a chance.
All IMO of course but I've got some prints to prove it.
Neil
Hi NeilYa'know I understand not wanting to have yet another RAW program or maybe any other program to learn. NX is fairly alien to many and it just doesn't flow like some of the others but for those of you who swear that no way will they use NX you will never get the full benefit of the Hi ISO of the D3 without it. Maybe not even the full benefit of the D3 period.
CS3 and ACR can't do a D3 file from 3200 and up nearly as well as NX. Maybe even from 1600 and up. I can't speak for Aperture or C1.
That and many of the in camera features you can't make use of which I'm sure your sure you don't need. Until you've tried them....................
You owe it to yourself to try it against your favorite RAW convertor. And give NX a chance, not a week but a chance.
All IMO of course but I've got some prints to prove it.
Neil
Good point, Neil, maybe useful to illustrate where to find that as well.(...)
Anyway the black and white tools set black and white points, use them with the double threshold scale. (...)
Yep the dock is pretty scarry.Bondo, thanks for posting the screen shot. I wouldn't have known how.
Marc, your dock sounds like a scary place. NX doesn't have to be scary though and even though I know you have an awful lot of experience I'm gonna suggest a DVD anyway. I got those Vincent Versace DVDs called "Unleashing the Power of NX". I'm not a DVD guy but I learned so much so fast it made NX hugely useful. I learn better by watching and doing than reading and doing and that is why I like them so much.
In nutshell I think the +/- brush up on the top row was the biggest "WOW, that easy to .........
Anything you can change in an image, color temp, color cast/contrast/light/dark/sharp/soft/warm/cold/ etc etc, all those things you make layers for in CS3 is right there. It's as simple as change the image the way you want, and then click + and you paint the change where you want it, click minus and take it away from where you don't. Opacity is adjustable just like CS3 but it is very fast and the whole adjustment can be changed or turned off later if you like.
And if you nail the in camera adjustments, love the look of the jpg (if you shoot one) the NEF may be nearly there as soon as you open it in NX. In ACR the jpg may look just great. Open the NEF file in ACR and start from scratch. I find many NEFs are 80% ready to go. In ACR I'm going to have a lot more work to get to that 80%.
A good case would be those ISO 12,800 shots of the recording session I linked to here awhile ago. They were more than 80% ready to go right out of the camera. Try 12,800 from another RAW convertor and see the hoops you jump through.
So maybe, just maybe the D3 will do alot of the post for you if you open the images in NX. It could save you time in the torturous NX UI.
Neil