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I know everyone raves about how good RAW files look from NX2. For me I find that Capture one 4 produces better looking images at a fraction of the time and effort. A good example is shadows, on NX2 they are almost black and lack detail, but C1 they are not as black and have detail. Could it be my settting on the camera that are causing an issue. Anyone else have this issue.

JWL
Nikon D2H
 
JWL said:
I know everyone raves about how good RAW files look from NX2. For me
I find that Capture one 4 produces better looking images at a
fraction of the time and effort. A good example is shadows, on NX2
they are almost black and lack detail, but C1 they are not as black
and have detail. Could it be my settting on the camera that are
causing an issue. Anyone else have this issue.

JWL
Nikon D2H
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It has to be the settings on your camera. I'm not sure how your D2H is set up but I've never had issues with shadows on my D2X or D700. Are you using the D-lighting adjustments with your NX2?
 
no it doesnt, its only good for speed, thats all. Reason: Any other raw-converter then NX, for Nikon, will clip the channels, especially the red and yellow channels. This results in artifacts, haze etc.

Even though they are supposed to support most Nikons, they dont, the parameters for many in-camera settings are useless. Stay away from D-light ( if youre working Pro, that is)

sorry. Fred
 
JWL,

It's hard to tell what you're doing.

One difference is that NX will apply your in camera settings when opening up your raw file and Capture One does not, so depending on your in camera contrast settings, you would see a different point where the shadows are clipped to black in the different converters.
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Jeff Kott
 
Danamc said:
JWL said:
I know everyone raves about how good RAW files look from NX2. For me
I find that Capture one 4 produces better looking images at a
fraction of the time and effort. A good example is shadows, on NX2
they are almost black and lack detail, but C1 they are not as black
and have detail. Could it be my settting on the camera that are
causing an issue. Anyone else have this issue.

JWL
Nikon D2H
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It has to be the settings on your camera. I'm not sure how your D2H
is set up but I've never had issues with shadows on my D2X or D700.
Are you using the D-lighting adjustments with your NX2?
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If you're talking about NEF files it can not be the settings in the camera. Only NX2 reads your camera settings when it processes the RAW NEF file. All other RAW processors makes their own default interpretation of the RAW data. Some of them might show the embedded jpg as a thumbnail. This jpg has been processed in the camera and shows the effect of the settings.

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Mikael
 
As long as you are using the software, why not bring up the shadows a bit? Curves are easy, or you may prefer to push the shadow protection slider up a tiny bit. C1 is OK, but most people like the images I have processed in NX2. Yep NX2 is really slow on my rigs too.
 
This sounds like an issue that is totally due to the fact that NX2 is reading your camera settings (mainly your Picture Control) and applying those settings when you open up the image. Capture One doesn't do this (in fact can't do this).

The first thing I would start with is looking at your Picture Control setting, followed by any contrast, brightness, or tone curve adjustments that might be set in the camera.

I'd be willing to wager that if you look at those things you'll fix your problem.
Jeff Kott said:
JWL,

It's hard to tell what you're doing.

One difference is that NX will apply your in camera settings when
opening up your raw file and Capture One does not, so depending on
your in camera contrast settings, you would see a different point
where the shadows are clipped to black in the different converters.
--
Jeff Kott
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Mike Dawson
 
fredericFahraeus said:
no it doesnt, its only good for speed, thats all. Reason: Any other
raw-converter then NX, for Nikon, will clip the channels, especially
the red and yellow channels. This results in artifacts, haze etc.
Even though they are supposed to support most Nikons, they dont, the
parameters for many in-camera settings are useless. Stay away from
D-light ( if youre working Pro, that is)

sorry. Fred
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Yellow channel? Do you convert to CMYK?

I have no clipping problems with LR2 or C1 and find NX2 painfully slow for my needs.

Joe
 
fredericFahraeus said:
no it doesnt, its only good for speed, thats all. Reason: Any other
raw-converter then NX, for Nikon, will clip the channels, especially
the red and yellow channels.
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My red channel doesn't clip - with ACR. Heck, you can SEE this in the channel histogram BEFORE you convert in ACR. It's right there! If, by YELLOW you mean the blue channel, that too is easy to fix IF the information is in the raw file.

If the OP is getting unsatisfactory results, he needs to learn how to tweak his conversions - always a good idea.

This results in artifacts, haze etc.
fredericFahraeus said:
Even though they are supposed to support most Nikons, they dont, the
parameters for many in-camera settings are useless. Stay away from
D-light ( if youre working Pro, that is)

sorry. Fred
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http://www.dustylens.com
http://www.ghost-town-photography.com
 
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