I want to start shooting NEF's on my D1h to be able to correct
white balance after the shot. I got the Bibble trial and can view
a raw, but not do much else. Any recommendations?
Bibble is well written software and is very fast (on the mac
anyway) though the user interface is not my favorite. The author
of Bibble (Eric) is quite responsive when bugs come up.
Nikon Capture's user interface is better, but still leaves much to
be desired, and the software is not well written - has quite a few
bugs still, and is
painfully slow , and Nikon has horrible,
horrible, customer support for the software. Reported bugs go
unaddressed sometimes form major and minor releases and, as far as
I can tell, no one in the US has the ability to get any response
from the software developers.
Really, Nikon support for all of it's software products has to be
some of the worst in the industry. I spoke with the Nikon reps at
PMA and was just shocked about how clueless and how unwilling to
really help they were. The Apple "partner support" representative
in the Nikon booth was more helpful and clueful then anyone from
Nikon. Too bad really.
In terms of color fidelity I think NC has the advantage. Bibble
(default settings) give a more saturated (velvia-like) color
rendering that is pleasing to look at but not true.
You ought to be able to pretty much anything with the Bibble demo
that you can do with the real thing (unless the PC demo is dumbed
down, the mac version isn't).
Either package can get you what you want. If speed is your need I
think Bibble is the way to go, if color fidelity is it, NC has the
advantage.
My $0.10
-Tom