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A note about using 3rd Party RAW converters

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DrJay32 Silver Member Awarded for his multiple written contributions for the Resources and eZine Nikonian since 11th Mar 2003
Wed 16-Jan-08 07:11 AM


I've noticed a lot of posts here in the D200 forum about people getting sub-optimal images when shooting NEF with their D200s, especially as relates to color, noise, and sharpness.

It's been mentioned before, but this bears repeating:
In-camera settings are only applied to images shot in JPEG mode, or NEFs procesed using Nikon Capture 4.4. If you use a 3rd-party RAW converter, you'll need to make adjustments to your image regardless of how the camera was set up.

Things that you'll definitely need to adjust if you aren't using NC:

Tone curve (contrast, etc)
Sharpness
Noise Reduction (ISO 400 and above)
Color Balance and Saturation
CA removal (if available)

Things you may need to adjust, depending on the converter you use:

White Balance
Hue

Just to show an example, here is the same NEF (ISO 400 from a D2x) processed with Nikon Capture (using just the in-camera settings) and then in Bibble Pro 4.6 (with the default adjustments set to neutral--ie, no auto levels, sharpening, etc.) You can see some clear differences in the way the file is handled.

This is not intended to be a knock on 3rd-party RAW converters (I actually like some of Bibble's features), but rather intended to show just how different the conversion can be if you don't take the time to make some adjustments in your 3rd-party software.

The first two are the full-frame image, followed by some crops of the image at 100%. The edge crops are soft because they are out of the focus plane.

Jason P. Odell
Colorado Nikonian
www.luminescentphoto.com

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Author: “Bird Photography with the Nikon Z9”

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