Kittyk wrote:
LR does not give them justice.
Adobe RAW converter does not harvest as many highlights and shadows as capture one or NX2 does
That's the last nail in the coffin. I have too much tied up in L/R and plugins to let them go to waste with the 800 not playing well. I'll keep on shooting with my 700's.
Agreed the Adobe Standard really falls flat on its face.
Thankfully LR4 natively supports other RAW processing calibration methods. I now import all my photos in LR using "Camera Standard" instead of Adobe Standard. You just need to make a preset where that's the only variable changed and then choose that preset when importing.
If you're not familiar with where to make the Camera Calibration Profile selection, it's the last menu item on the right panel when in the develop module. I'd love to hear what you and others think about it.
pixelrandy wrote:
Agreed the Adobe Standard really falls flat on its face.
Thankfully LR4 natively supports other RAW processing calibration methods. I now import all my photos in LR using "Camera Standard" instead of Adobe Standard. You just need to make a preset where that's the only variable changed and then choose that preset when importing.
If you're not familiar with where to make the Camera Calibration Profile selection, it's the last menu item on the right panel when in the develop module. I'd love to hear what you and others think about it.
Cheers,
Randy
This is what I have been doing with my D4 & D800. I love the files I get!
Cheers Pixelrandy, I've just updated my presets to Camera Neutral and the raws I'm working with look much better! I'll have to tweak my pre sets but that won't take long.
M I K E wrote:
I've not tried either of those, I like the speed of lightroom for processing the amount of files from weddings, are Capture and NX2 as fast?
NX2 is PITA but native, i would not use it unless somebody forced me.
Capture One is fast. It is primarily medium format software which accidentally is best Nikon RAW converter as well.
Glad you're finding the additional calibration presets to be useful. I tend to lean towards Camera Standard as it's just a little more poppy than Camera Neutral. Camera Vivid and Camera Portrait just don't do it for me.
You could do this with LR3 too, but you had to import the settings... or was that with LR2? Geez, I can't remember.
i cannot comment on how faster it is then latest LR, i stopped using it at v3.something, but on my PC it is instant even with 80+Mpix files. With D800 i see no difference to D700 in speed of processing. Exporting was little slower (generating 200+MB Tiffs, 1100 and 200pix jpegs) but i moved my temp drive to SSD and it does it under one second per image now.
It was also 64bit and multi threaded before LR was.
There is a 60 day trial to download so I may as well give it a go. Speed on my Mac seems good with 12GB ram and I've had no problems in LR but as I'm looking to use the 800 for everything it's worth trying C1.
I'll do it in the next few days and let you know what I think.
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