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Lightroom is light years ahead with its history pane.įile Management Capture NX 2 File Browser Frequently I’d go to a previous step to tweak a setting only to see my healing brush changes removed because I forgot that caused a reverse walk in the history stack.

The undo “step” system is the most confusing, horrible design I’ve ever seen.

If you don’t go mad switching between metadata displayed and not, then you are a very patient person. It’s the only program to ever give me a Out of Memory error besides a few select Photoshop Add-ins.

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It runs out of memory fairly easily on my 32-bit Windows Vista system with 3GB of RAM.

This can result in making modifications that underexpose the image.

There seems to be a more aggressive highlight clipping alert in Capture NX2 than in Adobe Camera Raw 5.5 or Lightroom 2.5.

Many operations require waiting instead of real-time feedback, which for things like Curves or before/after comparisons is unacceptable.

Capture NX2 can be very slow at times.

In fact, I’ve come to enjoy discovering that the latest quirk is as it amazes me one product could have so many easy to find bugs and still charge money for it! Here’s some other quirks I observed:

It seems that every time I set out to accomplish a task, I discover a new bug I hadn’t encountered before. This product has these problems in numbers too great to count.

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Now to be clear, when I say “bug” I don’t just mean software that crashes, I also mean user-interface features that just don’t work very well (i.e., text getting clipped, title bar controls getting hidden under panels, etc…). However, some products are more buggy than others. I’m a computer programmer by trade and any piece of complex software is going to have bugs – it’s just a fact that as software grows its impossible to test every permutation of the product. The only gotcha is that the changes seem to be additive so my files appeared to grow with each change. However, like DNG files, it seems that the changes you make are stored in the NEF file but without destroying the original as the contents of the Develop Edit List (see the curves histogram area in the image above).

UPDATE: Non-destructive editing of your NEF files – When I first used Capture NX and it would prompt me to save changes to my NEF files I’d say NO because I didn’t want to destroy my original.

While this version is slower, it works fairly well for touchups like removing the label on the apple in the picture above.

Auto Retouch Brush – Photoshop calls this the Healing Brush and Lightroom calls it the Spot/Healing brush.

For example, Viveza features better negative control points and much better intelligent masking for large regions.

Color Control Point – This is the most powerful feature in Capture NX2 because it is the same thing you get with Nik Software’s Viveza, but unfortunately it doesn’t work quite as well due to subtle differences that favor Viveza.

Distortion Control – This feature seemed to work fairly well in its default form and would be useful for wide angle lenses.

Noise Reduction and Sharpening Support – While the Noise Reduction isn’t as good as Dfine and the Sharpening isn’t as good as Sharpener Pro, what is here is way better than what you find in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2.

Metadata and XMP/IPTC Support – Anything coming from or sponsored by a camera manufacturer should have this, but its treatment here is decent.

You can change the white balance, picture mode, in-camera sharpening and Active D-Lighting, on the fly and see immediate results which mimic what your camera would have done in JPEG mode – cool.

Yes, it is true that when shooting RAW you can save lots of time if you can use software that mimics the results you could have obtained had you shot JPEG, and Capture NX2 can do that very well in its Camera Settings Panel. Yes, if you don’t have other software that can do this, then you’ll depend heavily on Capture NX2 as it is critically important to have a RAW file processor in your digital workflow. Truth be told, you probably could, but at what cost? I’ll get to that later, but first lets look at what is cool about Capture NX2: In fact, the average Joe could easily argue that you only need Capture NX2 to save yourself the expense of owning Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom. I’ll admit, Capture NX2 is cool! There’s some great stuff included in the box and the value seems too good to be true. I am reviewing Capture NX2 and using Lightroom 2.5 as the baseline for comparison purposes. NOTE: This is not a review of Adobe Lightroom 2. I decided to take time to see if Capture NX2 is more of the magic that seems to make the Nik Software products so great, or if it was merely the bastard step-child that is plagued with the problems that you typically see in software from hardware manufacturers. Nikon’s Capture NX2 is a product made using technology licensed under contract by my favorite add-in vendor Nik Software.