Adam,
CaptureNX is not useful to me at all. I fail to see any great
improvement, color or otherwise, over what I use now. Its lack of
image management functionality makes it less productive for my needs.
The Picture Controls stuff is cute but no better a UI than what I have
now ... personally, I find it clumsy. For me, ISO 400 is "high ISO" so
whatever advantage it might have at higher sensitivity settings is
irrelevant.
That's my opinion based on my testing with CaptureNX and NEF files
from a D300. I'm glad you're happy with it, and that you have your
money's worth in buying it.
enough, thank you.
G
On Oct 9, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
Unfortunately, software is an integrated part of the camera's actual
performance. Certain RAW converters do better with some cameras and
other cameras do better with different software. For example, a Sony
A700 will demonstrate poor IQ when coupled with ACR or Lightroom,
particularly at ISO 1600+, while it produces much better IQ from
Sony's (atrocious) IDC software or Capture One. ACR & Lightroom are
well known to be the best choice for Pentax cameras, while Canon and
Nikon's proprietary software is superior for their cameras (I'm aware
of your comparison between LR and CaptureNX. My comparison told a very
different story, particularly with regards to colour, where CaptureNX
combined with Picture Controls is very visibly superior in control and
accuracy to ACR with a D300, ditto high ISO performance due to
CaptureNX's better NR).
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