D5000 nef and CS4

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gowanoh
Aug 26, 2009
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My d5000 is supposed to be back today from Nikon today. Regardless of its design issues, ie an execrable pentamirror viewing system, the d5000 has the same image capture machinery as its more elegant relations which is adequate for my purposes, particularly the impressive noise levels of the sensor. I had a real concern about the accuracy of the camera’s auto-focus based on opening and processing raw images in CS4 which I asked the Nikon repair service to evaluate.
However most (I have not looked at all of them) of the same images opened in NX2 appear to be in correct focus. This is not simply a matter of how contrast and sharpness is set in CS4 because I cannot make d5000 images appear comparable via CS4, a problem I do not have comparing images processed with other Nikon dSLRs in NX2 and CS4.
I won’t exclude the possibility that the problem is me but I kind of suspect that the Adobe converter is not optimized for that particular flavor of nef files. I wonder if that applies to other raw formats as there are about 10 brazillion of them by now.

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rob
Aug 26, 2009
lebouef wrote:
My d5000 is supposed to be back today from Nikon today. Regardless of its design issues, ie an execrable pentamirror viewing system, the d5000 has the same image capture machinery as its more elegant relations which is adequate for my purposes, particularly the impressive noise levels of the sensor.
I had a real concern about the accuracy of the camera’s auto-focus based on opening and processing raw images in CS4 which I asked the Nikon repair service to evaluate.
However most (I have not looked at all of them) of the same images opened in NX2 appear to be in correct focus. This is not simply a matter of how contrast and sharpness is set in CS4 because I cannot make d5000 images appear comparable via CS4, a problem I do not have comparing images processed with other Nikon dSLRs in NX2 and CS4.
I won’t exclude the possibility that the problem is me but I kind of suspect that the Adobe converter is not optimized for that particular flavor of nef files. I wonder if that applies to other raw formats as there are about 10 brazillion of them by now.

One would assume that you are using the latest version of Camera RAW which is 5.4 this has the Nikon D5000 in its newly supported cameras list.

There was something that I read which Nikon were to start standardising the RAW processing to make it simpler by not having to add each camera to a growing list.

Be interesting to have a reason!
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Monty
Aug 28, 2009
lebouef wrote:
My d5000 is supposed to be back today from Nikon today. Regardless of its design issues, ie an execrable pentamirror viewing system, the d5000 has the same image capture machinery as its more elegant relations which is adequate for my purposes, particularly the impressive noise levels of the sensor.
I had a real concern about the accuracy of the camera’s auto-focus based on opening and processing raw images in CS4 which I asked the Nikon repair service to evaluate.
However most (I have not looked at all of them) of the same images opened in NX2 appear to be in correct focus. This is not simply a matter of how contrast and sharpness is set in CS4 because I cannot make d5000 images appear comparable via CS4, a problem I do not have comparing images processed with other Nikon dSLRs in NX2 and CS4.
I won’t exclude the possibility that the problem is me but I kind of suspect that the Adobe converter is not optimized for that particular flavor of nef files. I wonder if that applies to other raw formats as there are about 10 brazillion of them by now.

Nikon Capture NX will read any and all camera settings that you have set. Adobe CS4 does not , apart from white balance.In CS4 you have to sharpen and adjust settings to your liking. Also, are you talking focus or sharpness? If you are not focused correctly then NX will not and cannot correct it.

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