This is especially bad when using the 18-200mm lens as it has a lot of distortion at the low-end. And since CaptureNX-D apparently has no "manual" lens distortion adjustment capability like its CaptureNX-2 predecessor,
So when I look at the meta data for theĬamera/lens, that field is blank. Theĭ300 apparently has no field in the RAW file to tell CaptureNX-D that it has no lens distortion correction data. The problem is that CaptureNX-D does NOT like the D300! It doesn't seem to matter if the D300 has a legacy prime lens on it or a modern CPU lens. Lenses are pretty good, often with less distortion than consumer grade CPU zoom lenses. And when using legacy prime lenses I could always manually correct the distortion, though usually there wasn't much. This is important as in some cases the automatic corrections appliedĭon't look quite right. Further, I can manually tweak the corrections. CaptureNX-2 allows me to select the automatic mode to correct As you probably know, the D300ĭoes NOT do any in-camera lens distortion correction. With CaptureNX-2 I had no problem doing lens distortion corrections on the D300 RAW files with any of the above lenses. The old prime lenses work great on the D300 and D810. Several of which I had AI converted to use on the D300 and I have a collection of old Nikon prime lenses going back to the 60's. The "downgrades" in CaptureNX-D over CaptureNX-2, e.g. Not good.Īnd I've had ViewNX-I "hang" with it in "processing" mode forever. E.g.: "CaptureNX-D has stopped working." Basically it crashed and hasta be re-started. CaptureNX-D and ViewNX-I seem rather buggie.
Nikon capture nx2 vs photoshop elements software#
Its like two different software teams workings on the Capture and View series programs.Ĭ. Way for CaptureNX-D/NX-2 but not for ViewNX-I/NX-2 is beyond me. The CaptureNX-D installer does NOT try to remove CaptureNX-2. CaptureNX-D has no installation conflict with CaptureNX-2. So I now have both ViewNX-I and ViewNX-2 working under Windows-7 in the same partition. The ViewNX-2 knows nothing about ViewNX-I and there were no installation conflicts and no
Nikon capture nx2 vs photoshop elements install#
The work-around is to install ViewNX-I and let its I did find, however, a work-around to this problem. Installing ViewNX-I requires removing ViewNX-2. So, what's not to like about this? Plenty! Including:Ī. I also installed ViewNX-i (V1.2.4, 64-bit) and it works with the D810 RAW files. But CaptureNX-D (V1.4.3, 64-bit) ) works with the D810 RAW files. Get that annoying message that it can't find the lens distortion correction data. But CaptureNX-2 (V2.4.7, 64-bit) is NOT! Can't even open theįile for display. When I bought the D810 I found that View-NX2 (v2.10.3, 64-bit) is happy with D810 RAW files. I do prefer the user interface in ViewNX-2 over CaptureNX-2. Into one and the incompatibilities eliminated. Really, the two programs should have been merged But there are many annoyances between them, including the fact that once RAWįiles are edited by CaptureNX-2 they can no longer be edited/modified/converted by ViewNX-2. ViewNX matured over the years with new features added to it to where the latest ViewNX-2 With the D300 I started using ViewNX and CaptureNX years ago. First with the Photomic FTN, then an F2, then a D300 starting in 2008, and now a D810 in Jan 2016. I've been shooting with Nikons since the 60's. This is my first posting, so bear with me.