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Andreas Kunar said:
in their German-language press-release
http://www.nikon.ch//newsfiles/001/PR_Nikon_View_Pro_de_ok.doc

Don´t know what loosely translated "will enter the market in May
06" means - that it will not be free?

Andi
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I doubt very much it will be free Andi, unless Nikon is about to do a complete U-turn in its marketing strategy, and that seems unlikely. I would find the payment strategy more acceptable if they would just make the product easier to acquire with an on-line payment and software download option, with an e-mailed registration key.
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When I bought my copy of Capture, Nikon said life time free updates. Now that they have a big update it sounds like it will be something I(we) have to buy new ?? I would appreciate it if Nikon would announce what the situation for upgrades is: free, lower cost, full retail. My guess: full retail. It does sound like they've done some home work on what people need and use.

David
 
I just bought NC for my D200 (was previously a Fuji S2 user). Sure hope I didn't throw away $99 when I upgrade to NX.

Denis
 
Capture has never been a free upgrade from one major release to the next.
Meaning - all v3-releases are free (and all v4), but not v3 -> v4.
NX is the next major release, aka Capture 5.0, so expect to pay for an upgrade.
BTW this software is not made by Nikon, but by Nik Software.
 
Called Nikon to find out if my new Capture 4.0 will be easily upgraded to the NX, upgraded at a price, or just outmoded!

The response: I only know what I read on our website.

I wonder how well they get paid for reading the website.

MP
 
Yves P. said:
If you have enough RAM, the files litterally smoke out of the NC
series. Much better than the PSCS2 converter IMHO.
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That is a joke. I have two machines with 2 gigs each, both 3.2 ghz. Nc is clunky and slow in virtually any comparison tests you want to make against PSCS2 + ACR. RAwShooter Premium, Bibble, or C1 . You are right about one thing, Dlighting is dead slow and clunky. And when you throw in the clunky aniquated NC interface, which slows workflow miserably, NC is nothing but a PIA if you have any number of files to post process. I do hundreds at a time, and if I had to use NC I'd be writing from the funny farm.

But, I do hope they get it right this time. They are only about 3 years behind the curve in finally upgrading NC.
Yves P. said:
The only weaker aspect is the Dlighting compared to the shadows and
Highlights in PSCS2 but otherwise, it is fantastic.
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LOL!
Yves P. said:
Raul said:
it is going into a new level? With cost of $180? On May?

D200 users start placing orders!

Raul
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Not until I have a demo on my machine, thank you. Time and testing will tell the tale, not cheerleading exuberance.
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I am running capture on a dual-core AMD machine and it runs fine but really doesn't take advantage of the dual processors. The reason that it won't run is related to the copy protection scheme that they use. That software throws a Data Execution Error. If you turn off DEP and install it, it seems to work fine and you can even turn it back again on after.
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Jacques Giraud/giraud.com
 
Called Nikon this AM -- After numerous referrals found out that NX is being considered totally different from Cap 4. No upgrade policy, no discount. This was of concern to me as my 4 week trial on Cap 4 is up next week. Would hate to buy and then buy again in a month or so.

Guess I'll stick with Cap3 and CS for now.

Paul

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70-200mm 2.8 ED VR
SB-80
 
According to the specs in the release, it is not a universal binary. Releasing PPC-only code in Q2 of this year is just insane - this thing will be obsolete for many mac users before it even ships.
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Charles Bandes
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List price for Nikon View Pro is E50/£35 according to Nikon UK press room...
 
Charles Bandes said:
According to the specs in the release, it is not a universal
binary. Releasing PPC-only code in Q2 of this year is just insane -
this thing will be obsolete for many mac users before it even ships.
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Why?

Posts like this make me laugh. How many Intel Macs will Apple have shipped when this thing is released? A few thousand, 10s of thousands maybe? Possibly in the 100s of thousands at best. And most of these will be iMacs - hardly the dream machine of photographers using Capture. All this compared to the millions and millions of current PPC Macs. So the truth of the matter is that MOST Mac users will still be using PPC Macs when it ships.

Apple probably won't even have any PowerMac replacements out yet. Considering that Apple only dropped the Intel bomb less than a year ago and they then jumped the gun by six months I'm not surprised at all to see apps coming out that are not Universal. Something like this was probably in development long before Apple announced their switch to Intel. So the decision was probably - Do we plan on our current release schedule? or do we delay for 6 months to a year so that we can go Universal? Considering that Apple wasn't even supposed to have Intel machines out when this is supposed to ship I think the decision was pretty easy - stick with their current schedule.

There just won't be very many people using Intel Macs when this thing ships.
 
I think most companies train their phone customer service reps to answer the basic questions that keep coming up. These are typically people that are getting paid less than $10 per hour. Nikon is no different than any other company in that regard, especially true for a large company.

And to put things in perspective, for US taxpayers, try calling the IRS for technical help and then use your response as a reason to justify mistakes when under an audit. See how far that gets you! I think I saw a publication or survey that said about 40% of the answers are given are not correct. Don't know if this is true or not, but to me it is believable. I am not one to bash organizations, I just want to point out most large companies don't have highly skilled phone reps, and to be fair to them it may be too difficult a task or not economically feasable.

Gary
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brokenz said:
I can run Autodesk Inventor, ...Those of you that know what a memory
hog Inventor can be will appreciate this.
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I'm on the Inventor framework development team! Nice to see someone up here who uses it. I wouldn't call it a memory hog, though. "Hog" implies a huge wastage. It uses up tons of memory because it's got five million lines of code in the executable and a feature set to die for. It's just a huge, immensely capable program.

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FJP, Autodesk Inventor Software Engineer
 
As far as a definitive answer on Universal Binary, I haven't seen one yet. But for sure location photographers will want it as the new MacBook Pro's Intel Core Duo hit the streets now.

I think it would be foolish for Nikon to release software that was only PPC native. Universal Binary is the future for Mac platforms, Nikon needs to understand that. The current NC 4.4 is slow on a PC and even slower on the Mac, creating NX in Universal Binary would help the speed boost.
Professor Cruz said:
Charles Bandes said:
According to the specs in the release, it is not a universal
binary. Releasing PPC-only code in Q2 of this year is just insane -
this thing will be obsolete for many mac users before it even ships.
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Why?

Posts like this make me laugh. How many Intel Macs will Apple have
shipped when this thing is released? A few thousand, 10s of
thousands maybe? Possibly in the 100s of thousands at best. And
most of these will be iMacs - hardly the dream machine of
photographers using Capture. All this compared to the millions and
millions of current PPC Macs. So the truth of the matter is that
MOST Mac users will still be using PPC Macs when it ships.

Apple probably won't even have any PowerMac replacements out yet.
Considering that Apple only dropped the Intel bomb less than a year
ago and they then jumped the gun by six months I'm not surprised at
all to see apps coming out that are not Universal. Something like
this was probably in development long before Apple announced their
switch to Intel. So the decision was probably - Do we plan on our
current release schedule? or do we delay for 6 months to a year so
that we can go Universal? Considering that Apple wasn't even
supposed to have Intel machines out when this is supposed to ship I
think the decision was pretty easy - stick with their current
schedule.

There just won't be very many people using Intel Macs when this
thing ships.
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