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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / September 2007ViewNX - Nikon
At last - fast decent free basic NEF handling software for Nikon DSLR users. View a folder with a few hundred nef files in it, scroll through the tiled thumbnails rapidly - or increase thumbnails to a usefully decent size, make simple corrections to exposure or white balance, double click to quickly view at full screen or 100% size, convert directly from ViewNX to tiff or jpeg, or right click on any file and select to open it with any raw converter I have installed. Brilliant - a couple of years late coming - but brilliant. > At last - fast decent free basic NEF handling software for Nikon DSLR > users. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > with any raw converter I have installed. > Brilliant - a couple of years late coming - but brilliant. It's very slow for me - and uses 100% CPU a lot. Thumbnail browse is fast but opening / resizing NEFs is slooow... Guy > > At last - fast decent free basic NEF handling software for Nikon DSLR > > users. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Guy Picasa has been able to do that for some time. Vista does it out of the box (with a Nikon RAW download) Doc >>> At last - fast decent free basic NEF handling software for Nikon DSLR >>> users. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Doc But then you're stuck with Vista... :P P. >>> At last - fast decent free basic NEF handling software for Nikon DSLR >>> users. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Picasa has been able to do that for some time. Groan... Picassa is 100% toy - it doesn't even attempt to be a serious program. > Vista does it out of the box (with a Nikon RAW download) XP does it too. It's horrible in that the thumbnails are too small to see anything, and if you increase the default size of thumbnails in XP, then it's painfully slow. On my system, viewing NEF thumbnails and scrolling faster than the thumbnails are rendered sometimes results in explorer.exe crashing. > At last - fast decent free basic NEF handling software for Nikon DSLR > users. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > with any raw converter I have installed. > Brilliant - a couple of years late coming - but brilliant. It's only sort of quick when using the embedded jpeg, not when reading the raw data. I do like that you can zoom in full screen view & keep that zoom level while scrolling to compare shots though it's really too slow to compare side by side even with jpegs. The picture control utility curves adjustment is really nice although it's not really suited to adjusting individual pics because it uses a sample image... it's more designed for creating a handful of custom settings that can be applied to thumbnails... and apparently for uploading custom adjustments to the new camera models (on the memory card, not in the firmware)... presumably those would apply to jpegs. But those adjustments to the raw will only translate to 'compatible software'. Also there is no noise adjustment but it looks like noise reduction is being applied. I guess this is a glimpse of the high ISO noise reduction we've seen in the new model jpegs.  SignaturePaul Furman Photography http://edgehill.net Bay Natives Nursery http://www.baynatives.com I am not able to install this program. I am running under Vista. The program seems to go all the way through the install process up to placing an icon on my desktop and then just sits there. The install process never ends. Has anyone else had this problem? I shut down my antivirus SW, but that didn't help. Any ideas? TIA. Jerry ========================= >> At last - fast decent free basic NEF handling software for Nikon DSLR >> users. <clip> > I am not able to install this program. I am running under Vista. The > program seems to go all the way through the install process up to > placing an icon on my desktop and then just sits there. The install > process never ends. Has anyone else had this problem? I shut down my > antivirus SW, but that didn't help. It sat a couple times at the end (30 seconds?) & restarted additional modules in Winxp pro. > Also there is no noise adjustment but it looks like noise reduction is > being applied. I guess this is a glimpse of the high ISO noise reduction > we've seen in the new model jpegs. I don't believe that NR is being applied by ViewNX to "untagged" *nef files. I've been looking at 100% crops of high iso shots in Rawshooter and ViewNX. A 100% crop of an iso1000 D70 shot is here: http://i23.tinypic.com/ohphkj.jpg (a little soft - shot at 200mm f4 with stage lights only) I see that ViewNX rendering is a little softer than Rawshooter (No NR applied), but that there's no loss of detail, and no less noise in shadow areas. OTOH, is an image has been edited and "tagged" using CaptureNX, that editing, including NR and control point adjustments is rendered in ViewNX as displayed in CaptureNX. Then ViewNX is really slow too - just like CaptureNX. >> Also there is no noise adjustment but it looks like noise reduction is >> being applied. I guess this is a glimpse of the high ISO noise [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > ViewNX as displayed in CaptureNX. Then ViewNX is really slow too - just > like CaptureNX. OK thanks. Yes, it didn't occur to me there is no sharpening control in ViewNX either. I'm not sure what you mean about tagging though, are you saying View picks up settings applied in Capture including sharpening & noise reduction? A comparison of conversions of the same file with View & Capture might offer some answers. SignaturePaul Furman Photography http://edgehill.net Bay Natives Nursery http://www.baynatives.com >>> Also there is no noise adjustment but it looks like noise reduction >>> is being applied. I guess this is a glimpse of the high ISO noise [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > noise reduction? A comparison of conversions of the same file with View > & Capture might offer some answers. Yes - it appears to read metadata "edits" from capture and displays them as viewed in CaptureNX. The little icon representing the Upoint is displayed next to the thumbnail. Quick adjustments for such *nef files is disabled in ViewNX. And it goes real sloooowwww rendering the file the first time. It must cache the rendered *nef - 'cause second time viewing the file it appears very quickly, even after the system has been rebooted. Where can I download some nice Nikon raw files from recent cameras? I want to play with this software and see how it compares to Canon's DPP. Yes, Google is still my friend http://www.moosepeterson.com/d2x/noise.html > Where can I download some nice Nikon raw files from recent cameras? I want > to play with this software and see how it compares to Canon's DPP. > Yes, Google is still my friend > > http://www.moosepeterson.com/d2x/noise.html > >> Where can I download some nice Nikon raw files from recent cameras? I >> want to play with this software and see how it compares to Canon's DPP. OMG! Don't let John get wind of that URL! Bob >> Yes, Google is still my friend >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > OMG! Don't let John get wind of that URL! > Bob Wow, the D100 ISO 200 shot is horribly blurry - motion blur big time! I am very impressed: One thing it does better that DPP does not caption photos! The implementation of XMP and IPTC editor is not bad, sort of like Lightroom. Nikon is looking better al the time. Also it can do something not even Photoshop does, let alone rival DPP. it can convert your raw files to jog, resize them and attache them to a new email mesage in Outlook. Just recently someone on the Adobe forum wished Photoshop, Bridge or Lightroom had this feature, and I must agree So many times Ive wanted to quickly send a file but you have to use bridge, covert the raw, use photoshop resize command, convert to 8-bit, save as jpeg, and then open your email program and attach the files to a new email. With ViewNX you just click on the Email button and select a file size. Using the default setting I converted six raw files in about 15 seconds and it them opened a new mesage in Outlook with the files already attached. Nicely done, Nikon! Is this thing crippled or something? Seems I can only do brightness and white balance. But using the Picture Control Utility I can only adjust one shot at a time(?) I guess for this feature I gotta RTFM! > Is this thing crippled or something? > > Seems I can only do brightness and white balance. But using the Picture > Control Utility I can only adjust one shot at a time(?) > > I guess for this feature I gotta RTFM! Create a new (whatevertheycallit) like 'vivid' etc with your own name, then apply that to thumbnails (can't be applied in full screen view). SignaturePaul Furman Photography http://edgehill.net Bay Natives Nursery http://www.baynatives.com |
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