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| Nikon Capture NX Software for Windows and Mac | 
 enlarge | Brand: Nikon
Category: Photography
List Price: $174.95
Buy New: $109.00
You Save: $65.95 (38%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.1 x 2
MPN: 25338
Model: 25338
UPC: 018208253388
EAN: 0018208253388
ASIN: B000GEQ0HW
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| Customer Reviews:
 Better Choices March 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Capture NX is a good Nikon product for the price, but rather than compare this product to Photoshop the real alternatives should be Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture. Both products offer much more than NX does to the photographer without the steep learning curve of PS. If you only want to spend about $100.00 to jump into camera RAW than this product will be the one buy, but if you haven`t made your purchase yet, I would definitely recommend a look at Aperture and Lightroom. Either one will be less of a resource hog, are a more refined product and are designed just for the pro/sumer photographer. This is particularly true about Lightroom which coming from Adobe brings their years of experience with digital imaging.
Good news.......no layers March 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The good news about Nikon Capture NX is you don't have to deal with how to do layers! What you do get is several global editing tools and several selective localized area editing tools which all are quite easy to learn. The only thing I miss is the "clone stamp" tool.
Nikon Capture NX - Lots of Power but a Whole New Interface January 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very powerful tool for processing digital images, however the new GUI requires a whole new learning experience before someone comes up to speed on it's use
Nikon Capture NX for windows and Mac January 27, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Nikon Capture ( NX )shines as a basic post processing software doing 75-80% of what an average Nikon Digital SLR owner would use .It is required because of its excellent sharpness and color rendition with the Nikon Jpg and proprietary NEF ( Nikon electronic file )file that is far better than non Nikon programs .
But for the hardcore digital editor it falls short of photo-shop software and adobe light-room . People who buy capture Nx after using the many tools to eliminate background objects - layers - extreme perspective correction - brushes and filters - cut and paste - clone tool - of photo-shop will be disappointed . You really need both ,that being said the learning curve is very steep for photo-shop for an average user.
Check the Nikon chat-rooms / forums as there are still some compatibility issues with Mac or windows with newer software. Most post processing software requires over 1-2 GB of ram on a newer machine also another hard drive ( 300GB + at 7200 rpm ) is nice to have.
Compared to other software NX is cheaper and easy to master in a week or so of playing with it. Try the free down load to sample it for a few days and see how your machine handles it. The large 10 MP Raw ( NEF )files run painfully slow and older PCs .
I recommend it to every serious Nikon DSLR photographer.
 This is Good Stuff January 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been working with a D70 and Paint Shop Pro for some time now, and I'm going to tell you why Capture NX blows away PSP and other nonprofessional photo editors, and has reinvented my love for digital photography.
First, you've heard the hype, but the UPoint technology really IS a breakthrough. No more difficulty "lasso-ing" what you want to adjust. Just drop in a color point, adjust the size, and the program miraculously determines, in one second, the borders of what you want to adjust. (Somehow it can determine the borders of an object itself without being told) And, it does its job while using much less computer resource than PSP used to use.
So you blew out your girlfriend's face with backlighting? Just drop a color point on her face, then adjust the brightness, contrast and color sliders. Fixed, just on the face. No spillover onto the background. And it more powerfully did its job than the same effort on PSP.
And there's more. Capture NX allows you to instantly wipe out stray white balance or hue problems, by clicking on a gray point, and applying it to an object you know to be true gray, such as pavement. Bingo, weird color casts are eliminated. Put a black point on what you know to be black, say a car tire, and the program adjusts the tonal range of the photo to maximize depth. Same with the white point. Almost instantaneous. Yeah sure, you can also play with the CURVES feature, like I used to in PSP, but this is way, way faster.
Well, some of the features are the same as in PSP, but they just work faster, with less stress evident on my laptop. Nice photo but evergreen bushes in front are too dark? Click ADJUST COLOR, get into LCH EDITOR, then click on the evergreen to have the computer locate the exact color specification for that hue, then adjust the luminance of that color range to make it less dark, by moving a dot on a curve. Accurate, stressless on my weak computer, and AWESOME. And I learned this stuff in 3-4 hours only.
And, as a bonus, in coming to understand these features, and others like UNSHARP MASK (a misnomer; this is usually used to "sharpen" the apparent focus of a photo), I have come to understand why I (previously) wanted to upgrade my camera because I couldn't get my D70 photos to "pop" like the D80. Now I can; just saved $565 for the new D80 body. (But when the D90 comes out, get out of my way- there is no substitute for greater ISO sensitivity without noise.)
This stuff is powerful, and effective, with no unwanted artifacts (unlike those I often experienced in my PSP program). Buy this program; Nikon really knows how to execute. And nobody's going to buy them out and drop the ball on upgrades, like PSP (Corel) did.
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