danielmoore
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I shot a fairly traditional portrait for a local business woman today, tethered via Camera Control Pro and monitored in View NX2. I was truly impressed with the skin tone and color from the D800. Until I opened the same files within Capture One. By comparison they were harsh and unattractive and even after spending 20 minutes tweaking C1 they were no match for the default delicate tones/colors in Capture NX2. I'm not at liberty to post samples from today but I do strongly advise C1 folks to do a similar comparison next time they are faced with faces. I've never been a fan of NX2 but this is the second time I've had to defer to it for optimal image quality.
Also, I find it's sharpening for landscape use is seriously substandard but in the case of portraiture I find NX2 perfectly acceptable. I'm not out to map the human genome with this camera, but with the 70-200 it's close to doing that, so backing off on the edges a bit is a plus here.
Also, I find it's sharpening for landscape use is seriously substandard but in the case of portraiture I find NX2 perfectly acceptable. I'm not out to map the human genome with this camera, but with the 70-200 it's close to doing that, so backing off on the edges a bit is a plus here.