Nikon Updates Capture NX, ViewNX
By
Mike Pasini, The Imaging Resource
(Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 16:20 EDT)
Nikon today released updates to Capture NX, its image editing software and ViewNX, its free image browser. Details follow.
Capture NX 1.3.3
According to Nikon the 1.3.3. update to Capture NX, free to registered users, implements the following changes:
• Support for Raw images captured with the D3 (A and B firmware v1.10 and later) and the "Vignette Control" option enabled, has been added.
• New "Artist, Copyright and Vignette Control" items have been added to the Camera Settings palette. In addition, the categories displayed in the Camera Settings palettehave been changed from "File / Shooting Info / Picture Control / Flash and GPS" to "File Info / Shooting Info / Picture Control and GPS". Items in each category have been modified.
• An issue that caused an error to occur with some systems whenopening animage saved in TIFF format with LZW compression has been resolved.
• When a folder containing a Dust Off Reference photo was selected from the Dust Off Settings Palette, accessed from "1.Base Adjustments / Raw Adjustments / Dust Off" , for use with a Raw image captured with the D1x or D1H, an alert stating that "No Dust Off reference photo was present" would display and the Reference Photo could not be used. This issue has been resolved.
• When a white balance settings file, saved with "fine-tuning" of the "Calculate Automatically" option in the White Balance settings palette, accessed from "1. Base Adjustments / Raw Adjustments /White Balance," was applied to another image, the white balance settings were not reflected. This issue has been resolved.
• When Picture Control settings were applied to a Raw image captured with a camera that does not support Picture Control from the Quick Adjustment category in the View NX Camera Settings palette, an the image was then opened in Capture NX, the Picture Control setting in the Picture Control settings palette, accessed from 1. Base Adjustments / Camera Adjustments / Picture Control, remained Non-Picture Control. This issue has been resolved.
The new version can be downloaded from the following links:
• Capture NX 1.3.3 for Macintosh
• Capture NX 1.3.3 for Windows
ViewNX
Changes to the free ViewNX image browser include:
• Support for Raw images captured with the D3 (firmware Ver. 1.10 and later) and the Vignette Control optionhas been added.
• When images captured with a Nikon digital-SLR camera are selected, the following 9 categories are displayed in the Camera Settings palette. File Info 1/File Info 2/Camera Info/Exposure/Flash/Image Settings/Picture Control/Optimize Image/GPS
• Vignette Control items have been added to the Image Settings category of the Camera Settings palette.
• Artist and Copyright items have been added to the File Info 2 category of the Camera Settings palette.
• An issue that prevented proper display of JPEG images when a certain display profile was selected in the Color Management panel of the Options dialog has beenresolved.
• An issue that prevented accurate reflection of print color management settings when Speed was selected for the Print Priority option in the Print dialog has been resolved.
• An issue that caused an error to occur when the folder, to which an image saved in TIFF format with LZW compression using a third-party application, was selected in the File Directory palette has been resolved.
The company also noted that "Scene mode information is not correctly displayed in the Camera Settings palette for images captured with the following Coolpix camera in the indicated shooting modes. All other operations function correctly."
• Coolpix S600 Active child mode
• Coolpix S550 Smile mode
• Coolpix S520 Food mode
The new version can be downloaded from the following links:
• ViewNX 1.0.4 for Macintosh (Nikon Europe)
• Nikon ViewNX 1.0.4 for Windows
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