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« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2009, 07:56:46 pm »

Forget NX2, it takes seconds to redraw on my MacBook Pro. C1 rocks. But the best Raw converter may just be shooting Raw+Jpeg. the camera can convert faster than any computer.

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« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2009, 03:43:12 pm »


Question deleted as I've found the answers elsewhere on this site and there is no
need to clutter this thread


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« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2009, 03:58:05 pm »

Mark,

 You need the DNG 5.3 to convert D3x files.

 Available HERE

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« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2009, 07:08:22 pm »

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Mark,
 You need the DNG 5.3 to convert D3x files.
 Available HERE
Rich

Thanks Rick
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« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2009, 02:02:24 pm »

any idea if there is a way to update to CR 5.3 in CS3?, this looks like it only works with CS4
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« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2009, 03:39:28 pm »

Adrian,

 Correct. CS3 will only work with ACR 4.x. So no way.
 You need CS4 to use ACR 5.x.
 DNG 5.3 will convert the later cameras raw files to work in the earlier versions of ACR(4.x,3.x, etc.).

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« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2009, 02:00:36 pm »

so how would one convert d3x nef files to open if your workflow is bridge-cr-cs3?

could i convert from .nef to .dng through bridge and then open in cr-cs3?

thanks

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« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2009, 06:49:06 pm »

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so how would one convert d3x nef files to open if your workflow is bridge-cr-cs3?

could i convert from .nef to .dng through bridge and then open in cr-cs3?

thanks

I've been using a Canon Selphy to make on-site polaroids, direct from my fine Nikon camera. Works well, and when the printer grinds to a halt, the camera display even tells you that it's because you need to reload the printer with fresh ink!

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« Reply #28 on: February 14, 2009, 07:30:14 am »

I'm adding a link to Ken Rockwell's D3 review DETAILED LINKS AT BOTTOM OF THAT PAGE. Whatever his faults, the guy has clearly used and abused his D3, and the ergonomics of the D3 carry over to the D3x. This may not be of much use to seasoned Nikon shooters, but people who have come over from Canon will get an adaptation boost here. Newbies will find pointers to setting focus (Hint: The big white square actually works), Dlighting, and Auto-ISO.

My D3x is proving more of a challenge to set up than the Canon bodies I used before, because the Canons just needed setting up to single-point focus, with all the Jpeg look stuff irrelevant, while the Nikon looks able to supply some remarkably good in-camera conversions so I'm slowly setting up the Jpeg options. Of course anyone who does sports will want to spend some quality time with the manual and the AF customization controls, but that's a specialty undertaking anyway.

So far, my description of the D3x is still "Just works".

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« Reply #29 on: February 15, 2009, 04:20:18 pm »

Any of you guys shoot tethered with your D3x into C1?
I have Camera Control Pro 2.

So the best RAW developer is C1,not ACR or NX2?

Don't tell me I have to get C1 again?

Also which version of C1?

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« Reply #30 on: February 15, 2009, 04:36:50 pm »

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Any of you guys shoot tethered with your D3x into C1?
I have Camera Control Pro 2.

So the best RAW developer is C1,not ACR or NX2?

Don't tell me I have to get C1 again?

Also which version of C1?

Cheers,

Willem.

The latest C1 is very nice with the D3x files. Download the trial and see for yourself. It's also *very* fast on my MBP. Although, of course, I'm used to the P45, so 25 MP files are nice and small


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« Reply #31 on: February 15, 2009, 05:09:38 pm »

Thanks Edmund,
I'll give it a try.
Regards,
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« Reply #32 on: February 15, 2009, 07:47:19 pm »

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Thanks Edmund,
I'll give it a try.
Regards,
Willem.

For those people on a budget, or who like me have reloaded their software on too many computers, and fallen foul of activation, here is link to the Gimp. This can open the D3x files, and has the benefit of being a complete free image processing kit. The problem with the Gimp is that it is still an 8 bit program, so one shouldn't make too big edit excursions. But the Raw converter looks ok, and the main software is certainly good enough for resizing and cropping files for web use.
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« Reply #33 on: February 17, 2009, 12:32:47 pm »

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For those people on a budget, or who like me have reloaded their software on too many computers, and fallen foul of activation, here is link to the Gimp. This can open the D3x files, and has the benefit of being a complete free image processing kit. The problem with the Gimp is that it is still an 8 bit program, so one shouldn't make too big edit excursions. But the Raw converter looks ok, and the main software is certainly good enough for resizing and cropping files for web use.

Here is one benefit of the GIMP: Support for legacy image formats
I wrote this out from a screen capture of a D3x image.

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« Reply #34 on: February 18, 2009, 05:10:56 pm »

I've just put up a review of Thom Hogan's "Nikon D3 to Go" booklet on my new D3x Blog

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