Major Bug in NC3?

[James Riley]

Well, I final tried NC3 batch mode on some of my old D100 NEF uncompressed. What do I see upon opening up the 16-bit TIF output file? Black, almost all black, except for a small image on the top-left hand corner.

Did NC3 mistook the thumbnail image in the NEF as the main image?

I did rename the NEF for archival purpose, but they still have the NEF extension. What gives? Played around with the settings, no luck.

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JR

 

[James Riley]

Well, I final tried NC3 batch mode on some of my old D100 NEF
uncompressed. What do I see upon opening up the 16-bit TIF output
file? Black, almost all black, except for a small image on the
top-left hand corner.

Did NC3 mistook the thumbnail image in the NEF as the main image?

I did rename the NEF for archival purpose, but they still have the
NEF extension. What gives? Played around with the settings, no
luck.

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JR

Hm.. I guess nobody here really own NC3, and/or how to use it!

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JR

 

[Joseph S Wisniewski]

Well, I final tried NC3 batch mode on some of my old D100 NEF
uncompressed. What do I see upon opening up the 16-bit TIF output
file? Black, almost all black, except for a small image on the
top-left hand corner.

Did NC3 mistook the thumbnail image in the NEF as the main image?

I did rename the NEF for archival purpose, but they still have the
NEF extension. What gives? Played around with the settings, no
luck.

Hm.. I guess nobody here really own NC3, and/or how to use it!

Own it, use it, have batched hundreds of pics, and have never seen anything that resembles what you're talking about. Sorry.

Ciao!

Joe

 

[Kurt-WI]

I've got it, and just finished a batch run on 300 images shot this morning. No problems for me here. I'm running the Windows version.

Kurt
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Well, I final tried NC3 batch mode on some of my old D100 NEF
uncompressed. What do I see upon opening up the 16-bit TIF output
file? Black, almost all black, except for a small image on the
top-left hand corner.

Did NC3 mistook the thumbnail image in the NEF as the main image?

I did rename the NEF for archival purpose, but they still have the
NEF extension. What gives? Played around with the settings, no
luck.

Hm.. I guess nobody here really own NC3, and/or how to use it!

Own it, use it, have batched hundreds of pics, and have never seen
anything that resembles what you're talking about. Sorry.

Ciao!

Joe

 

[Dennis D]

Does it work correctly on images that you didn't rename?
Dennis D

Well, I final tried NC3 batch mode on some of my old D100 NEF
uncompressed. What do I see upon opening up the 16-bit TIF output
file? Black, almost all black, except for a small image on the
top-left hand corner.

Did NC3 mistook the thumbnail image in the NEF as the main image?

I did rename the NEF for archival purpose, but they still have the
NEF extension. What gives? Played around with the settings, no
luck.

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JR

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Dennis D

 

[sveinan]

Which imaging program are you using to open the 16bit TIFF files in. Jasc PaintShop Pro / Adobe PhotoShop / ... ?

I use Jasc PaintShop Pro, and have sort of the same problem. I'm not a 100% sure where the error lies. But probably Capture stores 2 pictures in each TIFF file it creates. One thumbnail, and then the real picture. TIFF is a really versatile format and supports multiple pictures in each file, so nothing wrong with this. But for some reason it looks like PaintShop Pro opens the thumbnail picture with the black borders added to the real picture dimensions. If this is because Capture messing something up in the TIFF file or if PaintShop Pro don't handle TIFF files with multiple pictures I don't know. But the same TIFF files shows ok with the built in viewer in Windows XP Pro. So my hunch is that PaintShop Pro is the problem. I've also seen on Jasc's homepage / support forum that there are some problems with TIFF files.

Don't know if this solve anything, but have you tried opening the same TIFF files in other programs ?

SAN

Well, I final tried NC3 batch mode on some of my old D100 NEF
uncompressed. What do I see upon opening up the 16-bit TIF output
file? Black, almost all black, except for a small image on the
top-left hand corner.

Did NC3 mistook the thumbnail image in the NEF as the main image?

I did rename the NEF for archival purpose, but they still have the
NEF extension. What gives? Played around with the settings, no
luck.

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JR

 

[James Riley]

Which imaging program are you using to open the 16bit TIFF files
in. Jasc PaintShop Pro / Adobe PhotoShop / ... ?

I was using PSP.

Opening it with Photoshop works right away, thanks.

Damn, should I get used to PS, or stay with Bibble and PSP... hmmm...

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JR

 

[Uwe Steinmueller]

There are many reasons to use Photshop for 16bit.

Uwe

Which imaging program are you using to open the 16bit TIFF files
in. Jasc PaintShop Pro / Adobe PhotoShop / ... ?

I was using PSP.

Opening it with Photoshop works right away, thanks.

Damn, should I get used to PS, or stay with Bibble and PSP... hmmm...

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JR

 

[James Riley]

There are many reasons to use Photshop for 16bit.

Uwe

Do you know if PSP v7.04 runs in 16-bit? I definitely want the 16-bit but are used to PSP, and pretty happy with the result.

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JR

 

[Negative287]

Yep, had that happen to me! I figured out what it was and just corrected it.

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Well, I final tried NC3 batch mode on some of my old D100 NEF
uncompressed. What do I see upon opening up the 16-bit TIF output
file? Black, almost all black, except for a small image on the
top-left hand corner.

Did NC3 mistook the thumbnail image in the NEF as the main image?

I did rename the NEF for archival purpose, but they still have the
NEF extension. What gives? Played around with the settings, no
luck.

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JR

 

[James Riley]

Yep, had that happen to me! I figured out what it was and just
corrected it.

How do you "correct" it w/o going to PS like I did?

Thanks.

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JR

 

[sveinan]

Can only speak for myself, but I also love PSP. Been using it for imaging editing since version 3. So the way I do it is to do all tuning I can in Capture (curves, white balance, exp comp, ...). Then I save it as a 8bit RGB TIFF. Do a convert in another program to Windows BMP (a pity Capture can't do this from start). Then it's the final tuning if needed in PSP. Then a batch convert to JPEG for final storing with the original NEF.

I know this don't solve your 16bit problem. But I find the manipulating of the 12bit information in Capture to be most important. Then it's just final tuning / editing in PSP in 8bit. I actually don't think PSP handles 16bit anyway.

What I do hope is that PSP in next version handles TIFF's correctly and maybe 16bit. 7.04 been out a long time now, so I hope next version is out soon.

If anyone has some other solution to the PSP/TIFF problem please tell.

SAN

How do you "correct" it w/o going to PS like I did?