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Disney has been surprisingly quiet regarding its next animated feature, Marvel adaptation Big Hero 6. We'd have thought it would take advantage of the Frozen success to debut a new look at the movie, but that has not been the case. There haven't even been official voice casting announcements, but now The Wrap has heard that Maya Rudolph will be lending her tonsil talents alongside T.J. Miller and Jamie Chung.
Big Hero 6, which will be linked to the Marvel universe but is unlikely to feature any real crossover with the MCU, focuses on young robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who joins forces with a rag-tag group of crime fighters to stop a criminal gang threatening his home city, San Fransokyo.
While a young cast is expected to snatch the majority of the roles, Miller is rumoured as Fredzilla, a man able to turn himself into a giant, Godzilla-style lizard, while Chung is linked to the role of Go Go Tomago, a young woman named Leiko Tanaka who uses a power suit to battle enemies. Rudolph's character is yet to be revealed, and Disney hasn't confirmed any of the casting choices, so have that grain of salt handy.
Don Hall and Chris Williams are sharing directorial duties for this one, with Hall and co-writer Jordan Roberts adapting Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle's comic. Some early footage from the movie is the only real glimpse we've gotten so far, but it certainly looks gorgeous from that snippet.
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Updated: Nikon releases Capture NX-D 1.0.0 software
Nikon has released version 1.0.0 of Capture NX-D, introduced in beta form earlier this year. Capture NX-D is the first version of Nikon's flagship Raw converter since previous developer Nik Software was bought by Google in 2012 (it appears that Capture NX-D is powered by Silkypix).
Capture NX-D lacks the Control Point adjustments that were a feature of its predecessors (and were arguably the main original selling point). It features a new user interface, batch conversion and a non-destructive workflow that saves adjustments in sidecar files alongside the original image. Unlike its forebears, Capture NX-D is available as a free download.
|Capture NX-D allows for adjustments to Raw files such as applying Nikon's D-Lighting.
Click here to download Nikon Capture NX-D
Nikon responded to user feedback throughout beta testing, making improvements to Raw processing performance, white balance adjustment interface and JPEG image quality compression settings.
Find the original press release for the beta version below.
MELVILLE, NY (February 24, 2014) – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce that a beta version of Capture NX-D will be available free of charge beginning today. Capture NX-D is new software for processing and adjusting RAW images captured with Nikon digital cameras.
Capture NX-D is a free software application that will replace the current Capture NX 2 application. RAW images (NEF or NRW file extension) captured with Nikon D-SLR cameras, Nikon 1 advanced cameras with interchangeable lenses, and Nikon COOLPIX compact digital cameras can be loaded into the application for processing and adjustment of images. In addition to RAW images, the application can also be used to adjust JPEG and TIFF files.
During the period that Capture NX-D is available as a beta version, Nikon will invite users to try the software, and will collect feedback about the user experience and the application from those using it. Nikon will then use this feedback to improve the application prior to its official release.
The new software will support many functions needed by professional photographers, including batch image processing, filtering and an enhanced user interface with a variety of displays and floating palettes that are ideal for multiple monitors. Additionally, photographers will also have the ability to adjust parameters including exposure and white balance in RAW files, and can adjust tone curves, brightness, and contrast, as well as functions for correcting lateral color aberration and vignetting in JPEG and TIFF files. The software also features a new "sidecar" format, which retains and saves the adjusted image as a separate file.
Nikon will continue to update and provide support for the current Capture NX 2 application while the beta version of Capture NX-D is available. Once the official version of Capture NX-D is released, Capture NX 2 will no longer be supported with updates.
To download the beta version of Nikon's Capture NX-D, please visit http://beta.nikonimglib.com/ to sign up.
Capture NX-D System Requirements (Beta Version)
OS: 32- or 64-bit version of Windows 7, 64-bit version of Windows 8.1
Processor: Pentium-compatible CPU (Core i5 or better recommended)
RAM (memory): 2 GB or more (4 GB or more recommended)
Hard-disk space: 800 MB or more required for installation (2 GB or more recommended)
Screen resolution: 1280 × 768 pixels or more
Other: As the beta version is available only via download, an Internet connection is required
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Processor: Core 2 Duo or better CPU (Core i5 or better recommended)
RAM (memory): 4 GB or more
Hard-disk space: 800 MB or more required for installation (2 GB or more recommended)
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You still can use the Capture NX2 but you will not be able to to edit NEF files after the View NX2 has done some edit to it. You can just View folders and Edit all in the Capture NX2 and still use the Control Point and save only in tiff or jpeg . The original NEF file will not be overwritten. So all you have is a tiff. Sucks, extra files You can edit tiff file with Control point and save but not in NEF. The developers for this application just blew it big time are not knowledgeable enough to understand the concept of this application and even forgot about the U-point feature the most important tool. It's now useless waste of time archaically went backwards. It is now just like any other application or even worse not even close to Picasa or Gimp. Now I understand NX-D. Degraded and dumb. If they do bring back the Control U Point which I seriously doubt their lazy assess will be anytime soon. Get with the program Nikon will you. Canon is starting to look more promising.
Quite possibly the worst interface of any graphical application I have used in 20 years.
Clumsy, clunky interface with no proper sliders that looks like some kind of Windows relic from the 1990s crossed with some lesser camera companies' previous attempts at writing software, complete with non standard fonts, ludicrous file browsing system, gimmicky, unconventional icons and a screen redraw that is frankly awful.
This software is practically unusable, and as such, being that only Nikon's own software will fully recognise their many variables of Picture Control this effectively renders the whole Picture Control system to be utterly useless on anything other than jpegs.
I agree with Chris, sadly this could be the beginning of the end of my long relationship with Nikon.
Hey Nikon guys: you've done a very good job providing the Capture NX/NX2 software for the Nikonians. I was and I still am stunned by the U-point technology and use it every day. It helps me to equalize the high contrast of pictures taken for example in our mountains. You are now giving away the unique selling proposition of Capture NX2. I can only repeat the words of Bene Placito: "I think I'll be sticking to my D800e and CNX2 for a long time to come." Or in my own words: if NX-D doesn't get U-point technology, I think my last Nikon camera is already produced. Pity after 25 years being a Nikonian!
U-Point technology belongs to Nik Software, which was bought by Google.
Nikon NX-D is a very bare bones editor. While I feel that Nikon's editors often give better results with NEF files than most others, NX-D is more of an NX View "Lite" than a replacement for NX2, or any prior Capture generation. Frankly, I have found it easy to use, quick responding, and giving excellent results for the functions that it is capable of doing. It has worked very well from installation on.
I have found Light Room 5.5 to be a very poor photo management tool, however, it's RAW editor (LR's strong point) has a better selection of functions and capabilities than NX-D. Though, NX-D's user interface is much better than LR, NX2, or NX View.
The bottom line: If you have been using NX2, NX, Capture, or NX View I think you will be disappointed with the capabilities of NX-D. In all honesty, Nikon should offer NX-D as free software with the purchase of any Nikon camera capable of producing NEF files. It's not worth more than a $60 price tag. But it does work well, for what it does.
I think I'll be sticking to my D800e and CNX2 for a long time to come.
Annoyingly, Capture NX-D tries to make Windows restart early in the install process. That's restart without warning.
One can stop the shutdown and re-do the install without another forced restart, but it's happened 3 times now.
I assume this software can interpret every proprietary detail from a NEF. HOWEVER, it is clunky and unusable! If you use Lightroom or similar why would you bother with this very poor first version of this software.
I can tell you why: Adobe is a monopolist and there is big need for competition. I really like the concept of LR mobile but as long as they force me to subscribe to Adobe PS/Cloud I never will go this way! Thus, any alternative to LR is highly requested in order to defy Adobe. Hopefully Nikon will fight and spend Money for further development!
....I shot RAW but still turn on Active D-Lighting and unfortunetley Lightroom can't interpret that....can be simultaed, but its a minor pain.
Depending on what I am doing, I can sometimes get a pleasing edit quicker with CNX-2 than Lightroom, but go forward LR it is.
Got my D810 but with Capture NX-D 1.0.0 the cam is worthless!
Realy poor, slow, bad interface, so i dont like it at all!
Is this the end of Raw ?
Im realy dissapoited by Nikon !
At the moment i look my files with View NX, also do minor correction in view nx then convert to 16 bit tiff to send it to Adobe CC !
Will buy Capture one from Phase One wich has a much better quality the for exsample Lighroom ( at the moment )
The Nik Control point technoly that lets you locally control those ghastly oversaturated D800 reds etc is missing, AND worse, this thing is creepily slow even on a top i& processor with an SSD and 16GB Ram, and seems to go wrong (crash) a lot. Raw Therappee works better but produces flat lifeless results (at least when I use it, and I suck at PP!).
CNX2 is just fine, and works a lot better than this new thingy
Can't see any of the numerical values in any of the adjustment settings (such as WB temp.) unless I click in the box, and then it only appears momentarily. I assume it's not designed to work like that... is it?
Your the first person I'v seen with the same problem as me. I also can't see the picture controls past "brightness" - "saturation" and beyond is cut off.
Are you running Vista home pro by any chance?
This problem has something to do with the font resolution. With a 30" screen, I had this set to 120 dpi. When I changed to 96 dpi, NX-D worked normally, with box contents and all picture control sliders. Oddly, when I changed back to 120 dpi (because some icons and text was just too small) I could still see all NX-D boxes. BUT, now all Nikon software has very soft and blurry text. Still waiting on Nikon for an answer to this.
Instead of this 1.0 Bloatware Nikon Capture NX-D, i'd recommand RawTherapee 4.1 stable, it's not bloated in any way - and can give you great results, for free, thanks to OpenSource Software! Not only for Windows in 32 and 64bit flavors, but also for Linux 32/64bits and for MacOS as well. rawtherapee.com
And Rawtherapee sucks at anything like challenging raw extraction.
So does UFRaw, DCRaw.
Even LR is dcraw-based afaik....their raw engine. I've had much more trouble
with messed-up NEF files by ViewNX2 then with RT, it never destroyed a NEF yet here.
The results from Adobe Camera Raw 6 thru 8 all look vastly better than DCRaw extractions.
I don't use LR or ViewNX, so can't comment on altered NEF files. I use PhotoShop CS6 and that does not alter raws. (ViewNX is a joke, so yes I've tried it a few times, but don't allow it to alter NEFs.)
I really didn't have ACR before V6, well I did have PSE 3 with some version of ACR years ago on an old laptop. I'll take a look at what it does for my Canon G6 raws next time I fire up that laptop.
thanks, i've used 1st PSP, then PS from 5.0 to 7.0, then PSP, then back on track since CS4 with PS. ViewNX2 is not a joke, it's way fast showing my NEFs - and i don't edit them into VNX2, only for viewing, and sometimes converting to 16bit TIFs, my NEF files.
For a quick view ViewNX is fine. I wouldn't do extraction to tiff with ViewNX though.
Just downloaded NX-D and found it does not have Underwater WB for AW1!
The failure to support NX2 is a major problem for Nikon. If NX2 is not updated for future cameras, I'll certainly be moving to a manufacturer that does back up its cameras with appropriate software.
It will not be updated. Nik Software's proprietary u-Point technology, and Nik was bought up by Google. Nikon have no licence now to use it. Google clearly are not interested. It was obvious this was going to happen as soon as Google purchased Nik. At the time I was shot down by many on here for saying that. They said Nik was not involved anymore in the software and the purchase by Google would make no difference. Obviously that was not the case. Does not matter how much people jump up and down Nikon cannot do much about this. This is the risk you run when asking someone else to design your software using their own technology.
When I contacted NIK support about resuming support for Nikon software, they asked me to send them an email requesting same. I did. Perhaps if enough of us do so, we might be heard.
- No mask function
- No blemish removal
- No CCP
- No generic clarity slider
- No, No, No,
Hey Nikon com'on up here to Canada.... we have Community College Programs that have 2nd year Co-op students that can produce better than this.
What the hell is Nikon thinking !!!....seriously Nikon just open source your ADL algorithm so real programs like Lightroom can include it and be done with this.
Capture NX2:
- Mask function... check
- Blemish removal... check
- CCP... ? I know CCCP (former Soviet Union)
- Clarity Slider... check (with nik plugin)
- Yes, yes, yes... but those idiots at Nikon killed the software
Not to mention how SLOW it is.
Nik was bought years ago and CaptureNX was updated since, so why this sudden, idiot move??
That "years ago" is less than two years, and any updates to CaptureNX 2 were just Bayer extraction matrices (database stuff, not software changes). Look, Nikon lost the rights to the technology (after a reasonable transition time) with Nik's acquisition because Google wanted Snapseed and an improved feature set in Picassa, and Google just can't be outbid. It's not like Nikon has deliberately played a rotten trick on you (us, since I'm a Nikon shooter too).
@LJohnK2 - There's every chance that Nikon doesn't own the D-Lighting algorithm, so can't offer it as open source.
It's something I wrote several years ago, so we can't know the situation now, but it used to be the case that Active D-Lighting, Sony's Dynamic Range Optimization and Olympus's Shadow Adjustment Technology were all based, to some degree on technology from a company called Apical.
While Canon enhances their RAW converter software, Nikon replaces CaptureNX with this short featured piece of crap. Did they bother to listen to their clients when this came as a Beta? I have some ideas where you can shove this, Nikon...
Does NOT handle high ISO raws from the Nik-One V3 real well. ACR 8 does a better job.
Seems better with high ISO raws from the Df. I also checked D4s raws, and ACR still seems a bit better, at least for high ISO extraction. Lots of noise at ISO 25600 when using Capture NX-D.
Have not tried the D800 raws I have.
Looks about like the old Capture NX-2 for results.
Never trust a 1.0 Release - that's a proven fact. ;) Perhaps NX-D 2.0 or 3.0 would be ok or good.
Well right, but it was free, and I want to have something to extract D810 raws with next week.
And this Capture NX-D isn't real different in results from what my memory says NX2 could do. The only big difference is the new interface.
It's not software I'd pay for, even if I exclusively used Nikon bodies.
For sure, i know. i just wished Nikon have had done a CNX3,
but we all knew the reasons why it would never came - sad, but true. Congrats if you can afford the D810, i'm pretty sure its the best DSLR out yet until Sony releases a A9 Series body with newer, better 36 MP successor full frame sensor. I'm pretty fine with 6 to 12 MP, and 20 MP from the A3000, 24 of the A7 is already too much in my eyes for my personal taste....i seldom crop images, so the composition should be fine with the original resolution the sensor outputs. My PC does have 16 gig ram, but apart from that i don't want to mess with huge raw files - the DP2M raw's are already a nightmare in filesize, and in 16bit TIF even much more...what a waste of space...i can remember quite well these days when my AT have had 640k memory only...time flies...
Does the new NX-D is quality-wise as good as VNX2, CNX2, someone compared?
I'll get to handle a D810, not buy. I'd go for a better lowlight camera if I had the money, so the D4s or Df or Canon 6D.
Capture NX-D results to my eye look about like Capture NX2 results, but I let NX2 expire before reverting my hard drive so can't test it. ViewNX is not good, and I've not updated it to the latest variation.
I tried extracting some Sigma Quattro raws--they start as 56MB and can be exported to 448MB tiffs--I stick with the 224MB tiffs.
The one reason I might have gone back to Nikon after changing to Canon was NX2. It is a wonderful program to work with because of the control points,
Now...well now I will invest in more Canon lenses.
Oh wait....
I think that applies to quite a few cloud models. Not the least that whole vapor-ware Creative Cloud with leased licenses story from Adobe. The software boys are selling us concepts we just don't want. Next one will be Apple (in the Aperture & iPhoto aftermath). I'm more and more looking towards Capture One.
that was funny - thanks!
Lightroom istotally non destructive, the adjustments are stored in the Lightroom database.
PhotoShop CS6 does not edit NEF files. They're opened in ACR, within PhotoShop, and then saved as PSD files or tiffs, etc.
Unlike Lightroom, PhotoShop comes with the separate excellent organization software called Adobe Bridge. No sidecar files involved. You can view the raws, and tiffs, and PSD files, or jpgs, in their respective folders from Bridge. There is no need to build huge specialized databases. Your photo folders are the data bases.
@ HowaboutRAW
Its sounds like your a bit misinformed about lightroom.
Although Photoshop doesn't mess with the original raws, it does save your changes as a new file which is a PSD, so you end up with multiple copies of the same file, which can be laborious to work with as well as eating up huge amounts of drive space.
Ligtroom never dupes the file, but keeps a database of edits which are insignificant in size when compared to making multiple copies of the same file.
As far as your bridge comment goes, i think the Lightroom cataloguing system is logical and far superior to bridge, not to mention that cataloguing and editing are integrated within the same program, so theres no 'round tripping' between software.
You don't appear to have used Photoshop. It most certainly does not only save to PSD. You can save the extracted file to any format you want that Photoshop will output to.
Drive space for still photos just isn't a problem anymore; it's no longer the year 2002. What you may mean is that a PSD file with many layers takes up lots of drive space, but that's a specialized application.
As for Lightroom it most certainly does construct special and different libraries, very unlike Photoshop. Now I may be wrong in calling the sidecar files copies.
Lightroom is a resource hog. And as far as I can tell Bridge is vastly superior.
I dont understand how you think creating duplicate copies of your files won't l result in more data? Yes lightroom does create an edits database, but what I'm saying is, its always going to be smaller than duplicating files, even if you do just save them out as Jpegs.
I also don't get how you would think using an external program would be superior to having an integrated file manager in the software your working in .
I get you might prefer bridge which is totally fine, but to say its 'vastly superior' is just exaggeration.
Working in ACR does not save edits or original files as PSDs. Edits to .NEFs are saved in .xmp sidecar files that are invisible in bridge but visible in your OS's browser, and they average 250k in size. If you are editing .dngs, then edits are saved within the file.
didn't know my question was going to turn into a miniature discussion thread, but just wanted to say quick thanks to all that replied. I've, to date, been using LR 5.x exclusively (not yet leveraged PS), and certainly not using LR yet to it's potential. Thanks for the education. :)
More data, also more clarity for things like Bridge and Photoshop in tracking that data.
I never said anything about less data. I said Lightroom is a resource hog, I though it clear that resource does not simply mean storage space. I think it's the creation of the sidecar files in LR that's causing this mess.
I'm aware of the .xmp files.
The data tracking and handling of Bridge/Photoshop is better than Lightroom's. "Vastly" probably went a bit too far.
If you try editing files that were already edited with NX2, you have to restore them to their original condition by using the "Restore" command in the "Adjust" menu.
8 years of (non destructive) post processing work lost.
This program does NOT open edited NEF files correctly.
"Correct" is a relative term. No, it doesn't seem to render exactly the same way as older Nikon software *if the RAW file settings have been previously edited in an older editor*. It shouldn't have to. I expect and hope that Nikon tweaks and improves the rendering engine over time. If you haven't saved a JPEG version of the final image by now, tough cookie.
Relative? You are misinformed.
I quote the dialog box that appears when I open an edited file:
"Only preview images in their RAW data will be displayed fro RAW images that have adjustements steps created in Capture NX or NX 2. To process and adjust the RAW data of the images, you ned to _restore_them_to_their_original_states_ by using the Restore command from the Adjust menu.
Yes, you must restore them to the original states if you want to continue to work on them in CNX. So do that, if you want to, or leave your 8 year old RAW files alone, or continue to use the old software to work on them. Plenty of options.
You still don't get it. If I want to KEEP the changes, the only option I have is to use the now _unsupported_ CNX to render a TIFF file. That is, _Nikon_ makes me abound the NEF file format.
This is good. They kept the new picture controls which were in the last beta version and moved them to PCU2 as the latest standard. The PCU2 set (and the optimizations thereof) give much nicer results than the old versions found in PCU and most modern Nikon cameras.
Of course the choice to use the camera defaults is still baked into NXD, so you can use all the old ones if you want to.
And I should add, because this is really cool, that they kept the feature where you can access all the really old pre-PCU controls when converting RAW files from cameras like the D40 and D200. So for those files you can choose from Mode I, II, III, Ia, IIIa, and the "B&W" setting found on those cameras.
There is no Capture NX-3 since Google remains intent on world domination. Google bought NIK and didn't license the NIK software to Nikon (control point technology). As I understand it, the underlying RAW conversion in NX-D is the same as it always has been, just with SilkyPix on top of it. So if you don't like Adobe's ACR result you can always use NX-D and output a TIFF to further process in your choice of software. Personally, I've just gone to Lightroom.
I've not tried it yet, but you're saying it's just the Silkypix interface right?
Sure the Silkyipix interface isn't great, but Silkypix is so awful in other respects I thought it had to be a bad joke.
I recall Fuji camera owners were quite frustrated at one point in time when SilkyPix was the only raw converter that would properly deal with EXR and X-Trans raw files. Does anybody know what this frustration was about specifically, and if it still applies to NX-D?
Is it worse than ViewNX?
Silkypix is a bad interface, and bad software. Noise control results in a blotchy mess.
For lower ISOs whatever tweaking Fuji did for the Xtrans files helped a bit with Silkypix. But higher ISO shooting was out and the interface remained a mess.
The Silkypix one purchases wasn't/isn't any better.
If it were simply the bad interface, someone could get used to that, but it's the bad extraction results in anything like a challenging situation.
Samsung and Panasonic both used to use Silkypix as the included raw extraction software; at least Samsung wised up.
ViewNX would be about the level of performance one gets from Silkypix.
But Google is not in all terms bad - i couldn't afford the full Nik Collection before Google bought Nik Software - since 2013, it's a bargain with all 6 Plugins for 149$. And what i've feared most - that Google wouldn't develop the Nik Collection further, this is thanks god not the case. I'll keep ViewNX2 for my "old" Nikon DSLRs, and when i've more stuff to-do would switch over to CNX2, or RawTherapee, the rest post processing always with PS. I never felt warm with LR, that whole database thing confuses me a lot from my current workflow.
I switched to LR when I started shooting multiple camera systems. The manufacturer-specific RAW converter doesnt make much sense, imo. I guess OEMs have to make it in case third parties decide not the support their format.
Agree on why Nikon had to make it.
Good thing they made it free. I switched to LR couple years ago but now that this is free, I might actually use it for some files that I want the very best RAW conversion.
I'd be pretty upset if the camera I bought just came with a little note "to convert the RAW files, please buy Adobe Lightroom"!
(and anyway, I like NXD)
Waist of resources that should have been allocated to NX2 and D810 Raw support and possibly to create NX3 With Nik Plug in support.
The most powerful feature of Capture NX was the part that Google now owns. We don't know how much of the old code that Nikon could have used and licensed for plugin support.
There is no point in slamming Nikon until you know what their options were. This could be their best shot at NX3 without the problems with licenses and associated product naming issues.
If you're still in the mood to kick someone's butt, swing the boot Google's way. The money in their back pockets alone should protect them lol
Will be free or you need to pay for a prod version when it's officially released?
This announcement is for the 'production' (non-beta) version and it's free.
What you are reading is clearly stated to be the original press release for the beta version so no contradiction.
This is the official version and it is free as in beer.
Nikon should IMHO just end their software development. Its almost always poorly designed and never developed after release. Their wifi iOS app was a joke and really nothing more than just a remote release with live view.
TBH, I think the age of proprietary RAW converters is done. The camera makers should do what they are good at, making cameras, and let the software companies do what they are good at, make software.
Let the cameras output in TIFF or DNG (kudos to Pentax for this) and be done with it.
Capture NX2 might have been a dog but it had the best color handling out there. control points were awesome and you could use nik color effects. i hardly opened photoshop anymore. View was always a solid capable viewer. now i have to go back to photoshop and that program can take forever to open.
I've heard that before. But the camera is pretty much a computer. It's got software built in so Nikon cannot be software stupid. And how come Apple gets away with it? Apple is primarily a hardware company but I do not hear too many complaints about their OS or other software from users. Although I admit they lifted much of their software from UNIX.
Camera manufacturers of Nikon's stature preferably need some proprietary or co-owned/licenced processing solution that gets the job done.
They cannot be at the mercy of a fickle Google or an Adobe. The processing software is just security and business sense and not meant to be a Lightroom or a Capture One Pro killing exercise.
Canon's DPP 4.0 is far better. And yes I've already processed respective files through both. NX-D sharpening is icky with a lot of haloing and artifacts. Most of the Nikon profiles are too similar, only Vivid and Landscape are distinctly different, but neutral, standard, and portrait are very similar. I was interested to see what steps Nikon has against fighting moire as they continue with the D810. Sharpening and moire tools seem pretty poor on D610 NEF but D800E NEF fares a little better for both.
If you've ever tried using Nikon's custom settings, it's quite debatable that they're qualified to develop software for their own cameras. And Nikon only has to support one camera development platform. They failed badly to keep NX compatible with the different operating systems the app ostensibly supported.
Just tried it on my 4 core imac loaded with memory... Slow Slow Slow.
ssd? or platter drive? i7?
okay, I tried it, just extracting individual Df raws.
Seems speedy, compared to DXO9-Prime or PhotoNinja.
Win 7, i7 quad core CPU, with 8GB of RAM.
Not fast in comparison to Aftershot 2 or ACR 8, within PhotoShop CS6.
I'm on a mac perhaps thats the problem.
I only tried D800 raw files. Extraction was OK, Any form of processing like WB adjustment was at least 3-4 times slower then C-NX2.
imac i5 with 16GB ram
All other similar products such as Lightroom and DXO are fast and responsive.
I have only negative emotions. When I heard about a program beta, I was pleased and 2 weeks tested it in (MacOS). I found many shortcomings, the program was crude and awfully slow. What changed? Anything. I don't want to use this program in business. The program works very much, very much, very slowly. And it is inconvenient to work in it. I wish well to Nikon and I will watch on updates of this program.
I'd have to reinstall the software to try D800 raws.
Are you using an solid state drive?
i5 CPUs aren't incredibly fast, and then there's the system bus speed to consider.
I didn't note a huge amount of RAM useage.
Okay, I edit with PhotoShop CS6.
Bad, bad, bad, very bad, Nikon.
When it was announced NXD, I expected a timely improvement of NX2.
A prestigious brand must not mistreat its customers with this program so bad.
Decrease the quality of Capture NX2, rather than overcome it, is a loss of prestige for Nikon, and a bad deal for their followers.
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I don't know about you, but I personally have seen a whole lot of troubled times in my life. I've experienced marital problems, financial difficulties, health problems, business failures, and many other quite painful experiences. But you know what, I don't regret these troubled times because I know, that everything that has happened to me and my life in the past, good and bad, has ultimately contributed to me being who I am today. Now, whilst I've obviously enjoyed the good times, I've also learned some excellent lessons in living from my many failures along the way. And my friend, this is the really important lesson which I wish to get over to everyone here today. We all go through some troubled times as we travel the road of life, it's inevitable, life has its ups and downs, its highs and lows for that's the way the universe operates, in cycles, as I have written about on innumerable occasions in the past.
However, so often in life we learn some of our greatest, and indeed most important lessons in living from the tough, the troubled times, the times when everything appears to be going terribly wrong, and quite definitely not as we foresaw it, as we planned it. I honestly believe, that life is a journey, a journey of discovery to hopefully learn lessons in living which will finally bring us to the promised land.
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98 They Hunger
RELEASED 2000 | LAST POSITION New entry
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RELEASED 2016 | LAST POSITION New entry
Phil: This is a valley full of things to do: fish, gather, mine, scavenge, delve, craft, romance, and, of course, farm. Wake up each morning, and the world feels full of possibilities, of places to explore and things to discover. It's a ruse. Stardew hides the depth of its farming behind the breadth of its other activities. By the time you've experienced them all, it's too late. As you sell your first crops and use the profits to improve and expand, you find yourself invested in your rundown patch of land. Soon enough, you're farming full time—watering crops, milking cows, planting trees, brewing beer and crafting artisanal mayonnaise. It's relaxing and compulsive.
Tom M: There are never enough hours in a day. Stardew Valley has so much to see, so many different things I could be doing, that by the time I go to sleep each night—or compulsively pass out in the dirt at 2am—I'm already planning my next day. It's the dangerous trap of 'one more turn' made even deadlier, and a trap I'll happily fall into time and time again. Stardew's pacing is wonderfully calming, yet played at a breakneck rate. With co-op and more content on the way, soon there will be even more to do.
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Samuel: This felt like such a true original at release, and it's still the one I go back to for high scores. The soundtrack remains incredible.
95 Zork: Grand Inquisitor
RELEASED 1997 | LAST POSITION New entry
Tyler: Still funny despite its age and the many pitiful attempts at game humour that preceded and succeeded it. Its puzzles are absurd in a consistent way that lets you finish it without a guide (though the Hades Shuttle Service Courtesy Phone might take you a minute), and always come with a good gag. The whole of Zork is great, but this is absolutely the one newcomers should play as an introduction.
94 Dragon Age II
RELEASED 2011 | LAST POSITION New entry
Tony: In most RPGs, a town is somewhere you pass through, solve everyone's problems, then never come back. You live in Kirkwall for ten years. You invest so much time in this setting, you build up so much history, that it becomes a place in a way few RPGs ever achieve. Somewhere you lived. People whine about the over-familiar scenery, but since when did we play BioWare games for their floorplans?
Phil: We're really doing this? OK then. How are all caves the same cave? Why does anybody ever go to those docks? It's repetitive. But here's the thing: it's also really good. It has some of the best BioWare characters, and gives you a decade to learn their stories. And you won't find a more endearing friendship than that of Hawke and Varric.
Samuel: I agree. Second only to Mass Effect 2 for party and writing. Sorry!
93 Papers, Please
Shaun: Bureaucracy is not fun. Working as an immigration officer for a fictionalised Eastern Bloc nation does not sound like fun either. So it stands to reason that a game about these things would also not be fun. And it's not! It's effective though, in its demonstration of how the staunch observance of systems and protocols bleeds us of our humanity.
Phil: The theme song is good, too. "Bwarp, bworp, bwarp, bworp," etc.
92 Undertale
RELEASED 2015 | LAST POSITION New entry
Wes: Indie developer Toby Fox managed to bring the heart and quirky humour of '90s console JRPGs to the PC. More importantly, he bridged the story and battle system in a thoughtful way we've never seen before.
Tyler: Undertale is the pinnacle of the selfreferential game trend, partly because of its complexity—it can take three playthroughs or maybe more to fully understand its web of decisions—but also because it isn't cynical. It surprises with self-aware gags and Kojima-like manipulation, but also tells a heartfelt story about our bittersweet connection with fiction and characters we love.
Samuel: It found a massive audience on PC, and deservedly so. While you can finish it in around five hours, it's full of secrets that only reveal themselves on a second or third playthrough.
91 Anachronox
Tony: I could tell you it's a JRPG made by Ion Storm, but that doesn't really help. If I tell you that one planet you visit gets sliced in half, and another one joins your party, we're a little warmer. If I tell you that you can still visit that party-member planet, and all its inhabitants have seen your adventures in the sky, we're finally getting somewhere. Anachronox was wildly inventive, but with its in-engine tracking shots and oddly poignant moments it was also cinematic at a time when nobody was using that word to describe anything as trashy as a videogame. I look forward to the day someone in our formulaic, risk-averse industry tries something like this again.


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Multi-level innovation policy in southern EU countries.An additionality evaluation of the Italian and Spanish public interventions
The present paper aims to analyse the innovation policies implemented in Italy and Spain. It adopts a multi-level perspective to investigate the effects induced by regional and national public supports and a multi-dimensional approach to disentangle the different types of additionality impacts on firms' innovation process. In particular input, output and behavioural additionality are considered. The results, obtained through a propensity score matching estimation of the average treatment effect on treated (ATT) implemented on CIS 4 microdata, capture a complex picture. In both the countries only national policies increase R&D investment. As for output additionality, whereas Spanish regional and national policies enhance the economic exploitation of new products and patent applications, Italian interventions boost only process innovation. As for the behavioural additionality, mixed evidences emerge for regional Italian policies, for which some negative effects are also found, Italian national interventions positively affect interactions with other firms and research partners, Spanish policies (both national and regional) induce funded firms to engage in formal training and to interact more with business and research partners. A tentative analysis of the "risk of policy failure†is also provided. Apart from Italian regional policies, for which no significant result is found, the Spearman's rank correlation coefficients reveal that the (rank of the) ATT calculated for each additionality measure is negatively related to the (rank of the) corresponding coefficient of variation. High TTs are thus correlated with low dispersions.
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How to (Actually) Beat Bobby Flay [Infographic]by FN Dish Editor in Food Network Chef, Shows, July 26th, 2014
Between Iron Chef America, Throwdown and the premiere season of Beat Bobby Flay, Bobby Flay has faced his share of culinary competitors. He's no stranger to the demands of heated battles and knows what it takes to succeed in a pressure-packed arena. But, after all, as the goal of Beat Bobby Flay is to find a rival who can take him down, there's no shortage of chefs ready to try their hands — and recipes — against those of the famed Iron Chef. FN Dish caught up with Bobby on the set of Beat Bobby Flay to learn his advice to his future competitors and what he thinks they ought to do to succeed. Read on below to hear what he had to say and find out what he revealed to be his culinary weak points.
What advice would you give a competitor preparing to battle you for the first time?
Bobby Flay: My advice would be … to challenge me to a dish that they're really well-versed in, because the lights, the cameras and the action are going to be an obstacle that they probably don't think is going to be a big deal, but it is.
As one of Bobby Flay's first-ever special guests on his all-new series Beat Bobby Flay, Michael Symon was tasked with finding a rival that could outcook the host; after all, no one knows Bobby and his cooking style quite like his longtime colleagues. While Bobby and Michael work together, they're also close friends and have been known to spend time together offscreen. FN Dish recently caught up with Michael on the set of Beat Bobby Flay to learn more about their friendship and to get an insider's look at what the famed Iron Chef Flay is like off the clock.
Fans know that you and Bobby are great friends. How did your relationship start?
Michael Symon: Originally we met on my first Food Network show — in 1998 — with Wayne Harley Brachman. Wayne was Bobby's pastry chef for, like, 15 years, so Bobby and I met then, and we've been friends ever since.
What are some things about Bobby that viewers might not know or see on TV.
MS: He's a pretty quiet guy. [There's] the personality they see on TV of Bobby — he's very outgoing on television, obviously — but in real life he's a pretty quiet guy. Pretty to himself, quiet guy. Very thoughtful guy — a great friend.
Just two losses after nearly 10 battles — that winning record could be earned only by Bobby Flay, a famed Iron Chef and the master of the throwdown, who first challenged hopeful chefs to head-to-head competitions on Beat Bobby Flay last year. This summer, Bobby's bringing his A-game yet again for an all-new season of Beat Bobby Flay (premiering July 31 at 10|9c), and with his reputation on the line, the stakes will be higher than ever. FN Dish caught up with Bobby recently and chatted about what he's looking forward to in this upcoming batch of face-offs. Read on below for an exclusive interview, and find out Bobby's most-memorable battles, plus his strategy for securing victory after victory.
What are you most looking forward to in Season 2?
Bobby Flay: Being pushed to the edge. I want it to be really challenging 'cause that's what keeps my edge going.
What are some of your most-memorable moments from the first season?
BF: When I lost the taco [battle] — that was memorable. One of my favorite dishes I made was the meatloaf with the Korean-style kimchi in it, 'cause I've only made meatloaf a couple times in my life, really, and I'm not that big of a meatloaf fan. So when they said meatloaf, I was like, Oh, brother. But it actually turned out to be really tasty.
Coining that phrase on last night's episode of Beat Bobby Flay, Bobby likened these tiny fish to one product that nearly everyone enjoys: bacon. As both ingredients are deliciously salty, they're capable of imparting rich flavor and transforming a dish to next-level deliciousness with minimal effort. The host reached for anchovies as he worked on a crispy, spicy topping for Cauliflower and Mushroom Mac and Cheese, and while his competitor wondered if they would complement dairy, Bobby's dish indeed wowed the judges, who deemed his offering the best of the day.
While bacon is crunchy, anchovies are tender and can be broken down, so if you incorporate them into a dressing or dissolve them in a sauce — or opt for anchovy paste instead of whole anchovies — you'll be able to enjoy their deep taste without biting into a whole anchovy or seeing them laid atop a salad or bowl of pasta. "You could get a lot of good flavor out of anchovies," Bobby said, which is why he softened them in a mixture of breadcrumbs, Calabrian chilies and olive oil in his crispy topping.
Check out a few of Food Network's favorite recipes with anchovies and anchovy paste below to experience their robust flavor firsthand.
He may be a revered Iron Chef, an unapologetic mentor on Food Network Star and a restaurant owner many times over, but when it comes to facing off against some of the best chefs in the country, Bobby Flay isn't indestructible. Just a few weeks ago on Beat Bobby Flay, the host fell to Chef Brian Tsao in one challenge — Battle Taco — that would have seemingly been Bobby's for the taking; after all, the Iron Chef is known for his affinity for and mastery of Southwestern cuisine. He offered guest judges his version of a puffy taco, and while they indeed offered praise for the dish, it was no match for Chef Brian's Korean-inspired plate.
It turns out, however, that Bobby has a long history with puffy tacos. FN Dish recently caught up with him and he revealed that his 2007 puffy-taco challenge on Throwdown with Bobby Flay is among his most-memorable cook-offs to date — but not necessarily because of the result of the battle.
Much like you probably prepare to cook an important meal by stocking up on any ingredients and specialty tools you may need, so, too, do the culinary teams on Food Network shows before filming begins. Shopping for goods to stock the pantry and refrigerator is up to them. For the all-new series Beat Bobby Flay, the team was tasked with readying the kitchen with enough food and equipment for not one round of cooking, but two, and the selection had to be great enough to ensure that the guest chefs and Bobby would be able to make whatever dish they wanted.
FN Dish was on the set of Beat Bobby Flay recently and caught up with the show's culinary producer, Danielle LaRosa, to find out more about what it takes to make the series happen. Read on below to see insider photos of the kitchen and learn some of the most-popular ingredients on set from Danielle.
"We have at least 200 items in our pantry daily for both contestants and Bobby to have access to," Danielle said. "Some of these 200 items include 30 kinds of spices (plus more as the season has gone on), 80 items in the dry pantry (including breads, vinegars, dried fruit, etc.), [and] 45 different kinds of fruits and vegetables."
With Bobby's winning record in Kitchen Stadium and years' worth of cook-off experience on Throwdown, the chefs hoping to take him down on his all-new series, Beat Bobby Flay, know that victory is going to be far from simple. This Iron Chef is known for his get-it-done sensibilities in the kitchen, and as the chefs who've cooked alongside him and the judges who've tasted his food know, he'll stop at nothing to turn out challenge-worthy plates every time.
Before a competitor can advance to battle Bobby, however, he or she must win in a face-off against a peer; it's up to Bobby's closest friends and colleagues to determine which among them would be most-likely to succeed in a head-to-head matchup against him. FN Dish caught up with these Round 1 special guests — either on the set of Beat Bobby Flay or at the Savor Borgata celebration at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa — to ask them a question: What does it take to beat Bobby Flay? They know his strengths and weaknesses like few others do, have cooked with him personally and professionally, and they're sure to be honest when it comes to doling out advice to Bobby's potential defeaters. Hear what Alex Guarnaschelli, Anne Burrell, Michael Symon and more Food Network stars had to say.
No stranger to fierce competition, Bobby Flay is a longtime Iron Chef with a winning record in Kitchen Stadium, and he's thrown down with some of the top chefs and home cooks across the country. But beginning this weekend, Bobby will launch an all-new kind of contest on his upcoming series, Beat Bobby Flay. Beginning with a sneak-peek episode on Monday, March 3 at 10|9c, Bobby will welcome rival competitors into the kitchen for a face-off, and he's looking to find who among them can beat him in battle. Each show will feature two competitors going head-to-head in a preliminary-round cook-off; it's up to Bobby's closest friends and colleagues to decide which competitor is worthy of the chance to challenge Bobby in Round 2.
FN Dish was on the set of Beat Bobby Flay recently to take in the sights and sounds of the competition, and to get an insider's look at the kitchen where the contest unfolded. Bobby and the rival chefs have their own workstations in the kitchen, which offer all of the tools, pans and equipment they may need to turn out winning dishes. The pantry overflowed with myriad fresh produce and an assortment of dry goods, while the refrigerator was piled high with creamy cheeses, crisp lettuce, a range of meats and various stocks.
Just this past summer you watched two fearless chefs put their reputations on the line as they attempted to take down Bobby Flay in the kitchen. Beginning this March, all-new hopeful competitors will head to New York City to do the same on the first-ever season of Beat Bobby Flay. These established industry professionals are confident in their cooking chops, but when it comes to facing off against an Iron Chef, everyday skills may not be enough to succeed.
Before the chefs can go head-to-head against the famed culinary master, they'll have to prove their worth in a showdown against each other. Bobby's closest friends and longtime chef-colleagues will be on hand to judge this preliminary cook-off before deciding which one can advance to battle with Bobby. While Bobby may have years of experience in culinary competitions behind him, his competitor will have one key advantage: choosing the challenge dish. With only seconds of on-the-spot thinking to prepare, Bobby will have to make the ultimate version of his rival's dish in the hopes that a new crop of judges will select his as supreme in a blind tasting.


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Shoot nope -- I'm looking for a value that change if *and only if* the map values have changed. Looks like the ETAG changes whenever anything changes in the whole database. A On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Adam Wolff <email@example.com> wrote: > Awesome! This is just what I was looking for! > > A > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Paul Davis <email@example.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Adam Wolff <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>> Oh, I'm not concerned that I'm not seeing the most recent info -- just >>> wondering what's the fastest way to find out if the application has >>> the most recent data. >>> >>> Tell me more about "view tags." That may be exactly what I'm looking >>> for. Is that an ETAG for the view results? >>> >> >> Exactly. I should've been more specific. Also, it looks like etags are >> already in. >> >>> A >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Paul Davis <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>>> Maybe I'm missing something, but assuming you're not using the >>>> stale=ok flag you should be guaranteed that the view you're seeing is >>>> the most recently completed update after your request was received. >>>> Ie, it'll wait if the view is being updated. >>>> >>>> If view tags are in trunk that'd capture the information on the state >>>> of the btree. I'm not sure if that patch has made it in yet though. >>>> >>>> Or I could be way off base with what you're asking. >>>> >>>> HTH, >>>> Paul Davis >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Adam Wolff <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I've noticed a pattern that appears in a couple of places in our app. >>>>> We have views which return multiple documents for a given key. What's >>>>> the fastest way that we can determine if we have the current rev of >>>>> the view, if we define a view's rev as the id and revs of all the >>>>> documents in the view? >>>>> >>>>> The solution I've thought of so far is to write the view's map >>>>> function like this: >>>>> >>>>> map : function(doc){ >>>>> var key = computeKey(doc); >>>>> emit([key, doc.id, doc.rev], null); >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> We query the view with startkey=[key, null, null]&endkey=[key, {}, {}] >>>>> and the rev for that key is just the text of the response. We haven't >>>>> gotten all the way through this, but it sees like it should work. My >>>>> concern is that this string will get unwieldy when there are a lot of >>>>> docs in the result set. >>>>> >>>>> Is there a recipe for determining the rev of a document collection? >>>>> Something in the semantics of id or rev that I've missed? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>> Adam >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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