I have to agree on WB being off.... What do you have it on? Either change it to Daylight for stuff like this or leave it on Auto & change in NX in post.
Love the lion, just wish the lion had more room to look into on the right side of the frame, like the crock has....
Raph, when you do the noise reduction only do it on the background, you don't want to run that on the subject. There are a couple of ways of doing it, the easiest to explain is to select the subject then invert the selection so that now everything but the subject is selected then run the noise reduction. A quick Google search can help you out there if you are not sure how to do that.
Lil: Thanks for the advice! I tend to shoot in the cloudy wb mode, because the D70S's auto white balance always seems really cold. I then post process in Adobe Camera RAW, but since i'm using dual screens and neither is calibrated... you can see what i'm gettin at. i know which screen tends to be better, but if i happen to be working on something else with that screen and edit a photo on the other, its white balance will tend to be off.
Tim: Thanks. If I use noise reduction, i tend to just use it lightly across the whole image, but will do what you suggest in the future.
go to Nikon's website & download Nikon Capture NX & try it for 30 days for free. I really think you'll like it a lot better than Adobe Camera RAW. NX is a wonder for any Nikon camera. If you have problems with it - - PM me. You can try it for 30 days - - do it. On the Nikon USA's web site you can see movies on how to use it. Use this link here for Capture NX. You'll open a whole new world for your D70s RAW files.....
I'll be glad to help with NX... I'm a firm believer in it & it's a super tool.
Thanks Lil! I'll do that. I've heard some... not so happy reviews... about its speed, and had been wondering whether i should get it or not, but if you say it's that great, then I'll definitely give it a go. Won't buy it though... as in theory it should come with the d300 i'm buying in about a month!!!
don't know how long that deal is still going & it varies from place to place. I like version 1.2 (PC) over the 1.3 version. So if you're running a PC, I'd go for version 1.2
It has problems. But once you've figured it out it's a wonderful program. You can download it - try it for 30 days & then when you get the D300 & you potentially get the NX with it you just enter the code you get with the D300. All it comes with is a license code.
Also, you should have no problems with speed with d70 files. It's the huge D300 files you have to worry about.
Sounds good. I have horribly slow internet here, but trying to download it right now Hope i get the license with the d300... i feel it's pretty cheap of nikon to sell DSLRs with only nikon view or whatever it's called...
Yeah, i guess there is a pretty large difference between a 6MP raw file at what? 10 bit? i can't remember. and a 12MP at 14 lol
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