DaveEP wrote:
I currently shoot both Nikon and Canon, and am still up in the air about which way to drop. I am probably going to wait for the 5D2 to be shipping for a while to get real world feedback AND for Nikon to ship the highly expected D3x/D4. It\'s not that I want to to rush out and buy a D3x (as much as I would like one), but I do want to know the Nikon is not going to fall at the next hurdle. If the D3x is as good as we hope it is, then I will probably fall on the Nikon side.
The thing that is a little concerning to me is how much work it takes to get good results in ACR from NEF files, and I need to resort to the slow NX2 to get the best out of them. With Canon I can pick a number of different raw converters (including ACR) and get good results very quickly. Maybe I am missing some Nikon tricks in ACR.... or maybe they are just not as good at converting Nikon files as Canon files.
Use LR2 for your Raw workflow and add a little post sharpening during ingestion. Then select a color mode provided by Adobe, or create your own camera profiles, and apply one to your photos. Very simple and the results are similar to the in-camera jpegs. Very fast. I find post processing in NX2 or PS3 or 4 too slow, unless you are only ingesting a few files.
My buddy uses a 5D and his Raw files are not picture perfect. They still require post processing. I\'ve never know a digital camera that produced Raw files that didn\'t require some post processing. But, I\'ve not used digital camera and could very well be wrong.
Nov 14, 2008 at 05:39 PM
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