Thanks for your comment and the great links.
It’s good to know that relevant people are reading users’ opinions.

photonovice

Have you considered integrating them together?

Certainly Lightroom has a strong browser-its strongest feature in my opinion.

The NX browser is designed to allow batching and quick views for selection; it is not designed for moving images around the hard drive, although it can.

Lightroom allows for “round tripping” where you use Lightroom to organize and make selects (Edit); then click on a NEF, JPEG or TIFF and have it sent to Capture NX. From NX you can send it back to Lightroom as a finished file and add it to your library, and also save the NEF file with all the changes intact.

Feel free to visit: CaptureNX.com for more general info and also:

http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin/nikonusa.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=14234

or:

http://tinyurl.com/33jera

Good luck in your quest,

Michael D. Rubin
Sr. Manager, Product & Software
Nikon Inc.
mrubin (at) nikon (dot) net

Thanks for your comment.

I’m using Windows XP for these tools although I’m a big Linux and Unix fan. I’d love to use a Mac.

I’m planning to write about UFRaw later, as an alternative solution and available for Mac OS, Windows and Linux as well.

Regards,
photonovice

alpenglowpro here…..which OS are you using mac or pc…..I am currently on pc but really considering mac because of there program compatability….

i do have nikon i have an older 80-200ed that is really sharp and I think lightroom is better thatn what nikon offers. that combined with cs3’s bridge you can’t go wrong

take a look at my site occasionally good job on your photos greg

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