I ask the following questions because I must be missing something in the online manual. I have been looking under "Image Adjustment." I feel like I must be overlooking a key point. I have also been trying to figure out how the Adjust, Revert to Original State is supposed to work.
When I shoot a RAW file and no JPEG, I had thought that any setting adjustments had no impact on the RAW file. By setting adjustments, I mean the specification of things like sharpness, contrast, active D lighting etc. which I typically set to my own preference before I shoot a jpeg. These are typically known as Image Settings and Picture Control items. When I look at the metadata under Picture Control in Capture NX-D, I see these settings listed, however, even when I shoot a RAW file. Could anyone let me know whether Capture NX-D is applying these settings to the RAW file that I am viewing--such that any further adjustments I might make are in addition to those base settings? Or, are these settings somehow applied to the RAW file in some other way? I had thought that the RAW file was supposed to be devoid of these sorts of adjustments.
I am new to this program and just installed it to look at RAW files which are not covered by my Lightroom 5.7 program.
As a second question, I have noticed that when I convert RAW files using the Adobe converter for RAW that is not included in my Lightroom 5.7, the conversion often gives me a peculiar file--for example, it looks terrible for the Nikon B700--with a large circle when you shoot at the 24mm (approximate) setting. This does not happen when Capture NX-D renders the file. What I would do in this case, I suppose, is make what adjustments I could in NX-D and then render a TIFF file to make additional adjustments in Lightroom. But I am a bit disappointed that the Adobe Converter does not work well. What worries me is that, for a Nikon RAW file, perhaps the Adobe rendering has some problems that are best avoided, even when they are not so obviously wrong.
I worry about having a "true" RAW file because I have seen some odd rendering of LEICA raw files, which look fine in Lightroom but have problems when you look at the RAW file in a LINUX program. It appears that there may be some software manipulation going on within the RAW file. I am not an overly technical person, but I had assumed (perhaps wrongly) that a RAW file was a RAW file, without any kind of manipulation until one applied adjustments.
I appreciate any help. Thank you.
I can't answer the Lightroom question. you may, however, need and upgrade.
With regard to capture NX-D, I can be more specific. The RAW contains all raw image data and the settings that you applied at the time you shot the image. The image that you see is equivalent to the jpg file.
The advantage of the RAW file is that you can change these settings to others. If you shot a picture indoors with the camera set to daylight your image would appear to be orange. Changing the color temperature to something like 3000K would give you a normal looking image. If you used the Neutral setting you could change this to Vivid if appropriate. When you finally see what you like then you publish as a tiff or jpg. After this you can go back to the RAW and use different settings. In principle Lightroom does the same thing.
That is very interesting. If I understand correctly, this means that when I open a RAW file, what I see in NX-D is the RAW file with my settings applied as if it were a JPEG. However, the advantage of RAW is that I can later change them?
I wonder whether this is the case when I look at a DNG file in Lightroom? It looks like it may be the case when I reset the settings. Lightroom converts the NEF, for example, into a DNG but in the conversion it may preserve those initial settings.
That is really an eye opener to me. It means that those settings do matter even when I shoot pure RAW.
Thank you so much.
The camera settings do not matter for the RAW file. Those are just the initial settings for the displayed image. You can change them is needed in the RAW editor.
Thank you! They matter only with respect to getting you to a close starting point I gather. Very helpful to know that.
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