I identified the answers to a few more mysteries over the weekend, too: the origin of the idea that you have to use a tripod and good lenses with the D800/E, for one. It doesn't hurt that two of the lead Adobe engineers for ACR are at least occasional readers of TOP, too.Įveryone who urged me to get the latest version with the Process Version 2012 converter was right, though: it's distinctly superior, more natural-looking and more capable. (Anyone remember who originated that mantra? 'Twasn't me.) All the controls make so much sense to me, and I like everything it does and the relatively simple way it does it, too. I consider "ACR for global, Photoshop for local" my home of homes in editing software. I can see why.īut I'm pretty sure I'll end up using good old ACR. It's becoming known as something of a standard for the D800, anyway. Supposedly PN is somewhat Nikon-centric, in that it reputedly does a particularly good job with Nikon cameras (although I don't know that it does any worse with any other brand). The Illumination and Detail sliders in PictureCode's Photo Ninja make it particularly easy to get tasty detail in deep shadow areas And the quality of the conversions is fantastic. I like the way you toggle back and forth from the Browser to the Editor, and, in the Editor, from whole image view to 100%. Photo Ninja (hereafter, PN-a Raw converter and photo editor) is awesome. I'll study his Complete Guide with pleasure, but at greater leisure.
D'oh!) So I switched to Ben Long's " Shooting With the Nikon D800" video tutorial set on. (Answer: there's a command button hiding in plain sight.
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I'm fascinated by insights into why Nikon sources its sensors from different fabricators and which subcategory of noise it is up with which astrophotographers must put, but I'm a slow reader and I just want to know how to get the bad boy off AF-C, which is how it came out of the box, and into AF-S. It's superb, but suffers a bit from Tolstoy syndrome. However, if this weekend is any indication, this particular 851(!)-page tome might be defeating me. Not only is Nikon lucky he exists, but his existence is among the That sentence cost me $89 to write, so I hope you appreciate it.) And I've also been reading Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D800 and D800E, and, following his advice to buy fast UDMA cards, I also bought two SanDisk UDMA-6 cards.Īs for a thumbnail review of the Guide itself.well, Thom Hogan is the best independent brand-specific technical analyst in the photographic cyberuniverse. (Note: Process Version 2012 is included in Photoshop Elements 11, but the version of ACR in Elements is severely crippled. Following the advice of several commenters, I bought both ACR 7, with the all-important Process Version 2012 RAW converter, as well as PictureCode's Photo Ninja. I've both been doing more experimenting with (and a bit more purchasing for- gak!-) the D800. (My current take on D800 black-and-white in a nutshell, for you current or formerĭektol-breathers: the D800 is a 4x5 in an F100 body. I spent my extra time happily playing with Raw converters and B&W conversions. So I didn't actually get a lot of work done on the weekend. Detail is crisp and impressive, and images have a uniquely pleasing and realistic look.Testing Raw converters: this is ACR 7 with Process Version 2012 Built from the ground up with world-class image processing technology, it delivers exceptional image quality, quickly and easily.
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