It's Frank's fault !!

[Frank Fremerey]

But you don't come home from a concert or other event with 500+ shots, do you?

Yes, Andreas. For That I have two paths:

1) get the JPEGs right, which is not always possibly due to lighting restrictions and no in-camera-calibration (Yes, I demand to configure the JPEG-Engine in my camera!)

2) Have a machine that renders apart from the main machine. I confess CaptureNX2 was better in that respect.

[Jørgen Ramskov]

From your comparison: "Left is the LR raw conversion / NX2 on the right"

I think there is a clear difference in details between those two shots. NX2 clearly produces more details. That agrees with a recent danish article examining raw converters: http://fotomalia.dk/workflow-konvertering-af-raw-filer/

[armando_m]

From your comparison: "Left is the LR raw conversion / NX2 on the right"

I think there is a clear difference in details between those two shots. NX2 clearly produces more details. That agrees with a recent danish article examining raw converters: http://fotomalia.dk/workflow-konvertering-af-raw-filer/

Absolutely !

Nx2 gets the most detail from the raw files and colors look better,
but it struggles terribly to recover highlights or shadows
Does a decent job with high ISO noise reduction, but in this regard DXO can do a better job

[Jørgen Ramskov]

Thanks for the extra details.