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<blockquote data-quote="LensWork" data-source="post: 134319" data-attributes="member: 1283"><p>Just <u>one</u> example of how PS and/or LR does not have all of the features of NX2 (there are others):</p><p></p><p>Where is the ability to auto-remove dust spots in an image from a dirty sensor?</p><p></p><p>Nikon cameras have a "Dust off reference photo" tool in the set-up menu that allows you to photograph a blank white object and the camera saves this "image" as an .ndf file to the memory card. This file is then used by Capture NX2 to "map" any dust spots on the sensor and automatically remove them. This function can be used in a batch process to remove the spot(s) from multiple images at once. Imagine that you have taken hundreds of vacation pictures with your D600 only to find pesky spots in every photo (a well documented issue with the D600). Sure, you can use the spot removal tool in LR to MANUALLY remove each spot(s) from each image, however the Dust Off feature in NX2 is far better and more efficient.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I did not hear this, I saw it first-hand. A Florida pro photographer purchased one of the first D800s and then returned the camera after her initial shoot citing that while JPEG images look good, raw files were "soft". She was using Adobe Bridge to open the NEF files and at that time Bridge was only reading 1/3 of the pixels making her 14-bit uncompressed D800 raw files to be rendered at only 12MP resolution (~24MB file size) Properly rendered D800 14-bit uncompressed raw files are ~74MB. Adobe engineers had not yet "cracked" the code for properly rendering D800 raw files. As JPEG files are a universal file format, Adobe software was able to open those files at full resolution as processed in the camera (albeit with the obvious limitation of a JPEG file vs. a raw file). As Adobe has continued their efforts to reverse engineer NEF files from the D800 (as previously stated, Nikon does not share their NEF technology with 3rd-party software developers), the image quality of D800 raw files opened with Adobe software has improved. I still contend that the best image quality of any NEF file is obtained when the file is initially opened in Nikon software. The most pronounced difference that I have noticed is in the area of shadow detail with those images opened in NX2 offering significantly better tonal range and texture detail in dark areas of the image. This can be said not only of D800 NEF files, but of any Nikon shooting in raw as each model has it's own unique NEF file structure optimized to that particular model.</p><p></p><p>Photoshop and Lightroom certainly have features/functions that are not present in NX2, this is why I have all three installed on my computers. I have however found that by first opening NEF files in NX2, performing initial editing there and then transferring them to Adobe to do any additional necessary editing (if needed) I have maximized my images/camera's full potential. Certainly not the fastest workflow, but when quality is the priority over speed, this system works best for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LensWork, post: 134319, member: 1283"] Just [U]one[/U] example of how PS and/or LR does not have all of the features of NX2 (there are others): Where is the ability to auto-remove dust spots in an image from a dirty sensor? Nikon cameras have a "Dust off reference photo" tool in the set-up menu that allows you to photograph a blank white object and the camera saves this "image" as an .ndf file to the memory card. This file is then used by Capture NX2 to "map" any dust spots on the sensor and automatically remove them. This function can be used in a batch process to remove the spot(s) from multiple images at once. Imagine that you have taken hundreds of vacation pictures with your D600 only to find pesky spots in every photo (a well documented issue with the D600). Sure, you can use the spot removal tool in LR to MANUALLY remove each spot(s) from each image, however the Dust Off feature in NX2 is far better and more efficient. I did not hear this, I saw it first-hand. A Florida pro photographer purchased one of the first D800s and then returned the camera after her initial shoot citing that while JPEG images look good, raw files were "soft". She was using Adobe Bridge to open the NEF files and at that time Bridge was only reading 1/3 of the pixels making her 14-bit uncompressed D800 raw files to be rendered at only 12MP resolution (~24MB file size) Properly rendered D800 14-bit uncompressed raw files are ~74MB. Adobe engineers had not yet "cracked" the code for properly rendering D800 raw files. As JPEG files are a universal file format, Adobe software was able to open those files at full resolution as processed in the camera (albeit with the obvious limitation of a JPEG file vs. a raw file). As Adobe has continued their efforts to reverse engineer NEF files from the D800 (as previously stated, Nikon does not share their NEF technology with 3rd-party software developers), the image quality of D800 raw files opened with Adobe software has improved. I still contend that the best image quality of any NEF file is obtained when the file is initially opened in Nikon software. The most pronounced difference that I have noticed is in the area of shadow detail with those images opened in NX2 offering significantly better tonal range and texture detail in dark areas of the image. This can be said not only of D800 NEF files, but of any Nikon shooting in raw as each model has it's own unique NEF file structure optimized to that particular model. Photoshop and Lightroom certainly have features/functions that are not present in NX2, this is why I have all three installed on my computers. I have however found that by first opening NEF files in NX2, performing initial editing there and then transferring them to Adobe to do any additional necessary editing (if needed) I have maximized my images/camera's full potential. Certainly not the fastest workflow, but when quality is the priority over speed, this system works best for me. [/QUOTE]
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