Nikon
Capture 4.2.1 (optional)
Nikon Capture 4 is the latest version of Nikon's advanced RAW conversion
application which started life with the D1 back in 1999. Nikon Capture
has always been an optional purchase (around $99), and remains so with the D2H although
you can at least perform some RAW manipulation in Nikon View Editor. To
ensure you get a flavor for Capture 4 Nikon has chosen to provide a 30
day trial copy with the camera.
NOTE: Nikon Capture 4.3 should be available later this month which will include a new feature; Color Aberration Control (fringing correction).
Nikon Capture Editor
Nikon Capture Editor in its 4.2 guise has the same look and feel as previous versions but extends the available tool set to include new features such as D-Lighting, Color Booster, Photo Effects and LCH (Lightness, Chroma and Hue) Editor.
Major Features
- Open JPEG, TIFF and NEF (Nikon RAW) files (recognizes shot color
space)
- Save as JPEG (five levels, embed profile)
- Save as TIFF (RGB or CMYK, 8 or 16-bit, compression, embed profile)
- Save as NEF with embedded image
adjustments
- Process images in batches, can be set up as a batch conversion 'server'
- Full view, zoom (up to 1600%) and scroll images (fast and smooth)
- Bird's Eye view of image (overview with fast scrolling)
- Point information, Histogram, Markers
- Detailed shooting information (general, lens used, exposure, camera
settings etc.)
- Show grid lines, focus areas, lost shadows, lost highlights
- Crop image
- Selectable color spaces for monitor, printer and CMYK separation
- Edit IPTC information (see previous page) including load/save IPTC
info
- Print (single or multiple images)
- Copy & Paste Image Adjustments between images (single adjustments
or the 'set')
- Load & Save Image Adjustments
- Flip (horizontal / vertical)
- Rotate (-90°, +90°, +180° or arbitrary, including 'draw level' feature)
- Image resize (including ppi)
- Select image area and save selection
- Create camera tone curves
- 'Receive' images directly from Camera Control
- Transfer images to Adobe Photoshop (in 8 or 16 bit mode)
Image Adjustments
- Curves & Levels (including black, gray and white point sample)
- Unsharp mask (multiple masks can be overlaid; intensity / width / threshold)
- D-Lighting (HS / HQ, adjustment, color boost)
- Color Booster (people / nature, level, auto)
- Size / Resolution (resize, change ppi)
- Photo Effects
- Noise Reduction (optional edge noise reduction)
- LCH Editor (master lightness, color lightness, chroma, hue)
- RAW only adjustments (.NEF)
- Digital exposure compensation (+/-2.0 EV in 0.01 EV steps)
- Sharpening (Unchanged, None, Low, Medium Low, Normal, Medium
High, High)
- Tone comp. (Unchanged, Low, Medium Low, Normal, Medium
High, High, User)
- Color mode (Unchanged, I, II, III, Ia, IIIa) *
- Saturation compensation (Unchanged, Moderate, Normal, Enhanced)
- Hue Adjustment (+/-9° in 3° steps)
- White balance (Recorded, Gray Point, Auto, Incandescent, Daylight, Standard
Fluorescent, High Fluorescent,
Flash, Kelvin temperature) - fine tunable
- Image Dust Off (using dust reference image)
- Vignette Control
- Fisheye Lens correction
* Modes I, Ia, III and IIIa are sRGB, mode II is Adobe RGB
Nikon Capture Batch processing
You can easily configure Nikon Capture to process a batch of images, either
a single folder or multiple folders. You can even leave it checking for
images and converting them automatically, this would be useful in a multi-user
office network environment where RAW files could be 'dropped' into a standard
shared directory and automatically processed by the Nikon Capture server.
This can also be useful in a wireless environment where compressed RAW
files could be written directly to a server which was custom processing
them ready for transmission or output.
Nikon Capture Options
The Options dialog allows you to control various default settings such as the 'user default' set of image adjustments, temporary files, color options, grid lines and color management settings (color space used for monitor, local print and CMYK output).
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