On Jan 6, 7:29 pm, Jerome Ranch <ranc....RemoveThis@mchsi.com> wrote:
> >Good luck if you want to convert 30 shots in one go.
>
> Explain please.
> I use Capture NX to batch save photo shoots to jpg, bulk change WB,
> sharpening etc.
> I have no problem performing a host of functions in batch mode...set
> it and forget it
> What is it that you are trying to do in batch but can't do in Capture
> NX?
>
Hi,
I know you can, but I find the process of changing the settings to be
too clumsy. That by itself wouldn't have been too much of a problem,
and the fact that it recognises the in-camera settings ameliorates the
problem somewhat, but combined with the clumsiness of the rest of the
program it's too much. For example, zooming to 100% to judge NR for a
high ISO shot means I have to wait up to a minute for every change of
the NR slider if set to "better quality". How am I supposed to fine
tune it? It's faster when it is set to "faster", but if you compare it
to practically any other converter, it's glacial (although the NR is
better than average). And so on, I find the whole things just slow and
clumsy.
Now the image quality is excellent, but then again so is the quality
from capture one and it's faster (7 seconds per image-and I prefer its
detail, not that this matters too much). And in C1, I can adjust the
controls I want, press ctrl+shift+c, select the images to which I want
to paste the adjustments, and press ctrl+shft+v. If I want to
separately adjust subsets of these, I can do it again with keyboard
shortcuts (when you adjust settings and ctrl-shft-C, only the changed
settings get copied-but you can select more if you wish). No messing
around with saving settings and selecting the files etc like in
Capture NX. And the adjustments I make stay, I don't have to re-save
the raw file like in capture (which takes as long as a proper
conversion on my machine, presumably to generate the jpeg!).
Capture NX is good in terms of conversion, and I liked it for quick
adjustments, too (ie as an editor), but it's too slow, clumsy and
expensive, in my opinion (and for me). If I dread having to fire up my
raw converter, then there's something wrong. Also, here, its price is
twice .that of paintshop pro,for example, which surely is a more
capable editor (and, unbelievably, faster! keep in mind that I
personally find paintshop unusably slow for what I do). Or 1.5 times
that of capture one, which is a better converter (again in my opinion,
but of course feel free to disagree, these things are to some extend
subjective).
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