Nikon vs Adobe???

Ric Grupe

Here is an excerpt:

"Where does Photoshop come in? As graphic arts software, it's great for removing a telephone pole, or adding a drop shadow, or affixing a caption to your photo. But if you're using it to crop or straighten an image, or adjust contrast, brightness, saturation and curves, or to apply filters, you simply don't need it."

From this page:

http://www.nikonpro.com/clear_definitions_main.php

Isn't sitting around the boardroom smoking marijuana illegal? But then again, maybe it's good that someone challenges Adobe once in a while!

patch29

It is unfortunate to watch the moves Nikon is making.

Take a look here to see how Nikon is also encrypting white balance data to keep third parties from processing Nikon raw files.

flyingpylon

It's obvious Nikon has never tried to use Capture in real world situations. I tried to use Capture as my only post-processing tool. I needed to convert from NEF, adjust white balance and levels, rotate occasionally and crop.

Of course Capture could not rotate at all until the most recent version. And now that it does, I've noticed that the image usually gets blurred when rotated. So that's no good.

And with cropping, I needed my image cropped to a very specific size. Though I would specify the exact dimensions in the crop tool, the final image would be +/- up to two pixels in either dimension! Frustrating.

Harryb

Ric Grupe wrote:

Here is an excerpt:

"Where does Photoshop come in? As graphic arts software, it's great for removing a telephone pole, or adding a drop shadow, or affixing a caption to your photo. But if you're using it to crop or straighten an image, or adjust contrast, brightness, saturation and curves, or to apply filters, you simply don't need it."

From this page:

http://www.nikonpro.com/clear_definitions_main.php

Isn't sitting around the boardroom smoking marijuana illegal? But then again, maybe it's good that someone challenges Adobe once in a while!

What you have here is a company trying to squeeze a few more $ out of its product. Nikon is trying to make the purchase of Nikon Capture for $100 a necessity. I have always felt that capture should be included with the camera for free but no one listens to me anyhow. :cry

That said Capture is an excellent product and I use it for 90% of my post processing.

wxwax

What ocurs to me is that there's a danger that Nikon makes themselves harder to use and isolates themselves in the marketplace.

Ric Grupe

Hey, Harry...

Harryb wrote:

That said Capture is an excellent product and I use it for 90% of my post processing.

...I've never used it...so I'll take your word for it. It just seemed to me that that quote from Nikon was a little rediculous. I don't use DPP from Canon either! (it's free)