I know I drone on and on about this but I thought a few of you Aperture/Nikon shooters out there and maybe even some Leica M9 shooters may find it interesting there seems to be a strange connection in the way that Aperture renders NEF color and the way the Leica M9 renders color in it’s JPG’s. Well not really a connection but an interesting similarity of “issues”. This is going to take some leaps of faith on your part to follow along. This is a code word for...
Disclaimer – I still think Adobe ACR and camera profiles are a decent way of going about the RAW conversion business and that Apple has it’s collective head up it’s you know what when it comes to NEF processing but… Being the ever color vigilant – I noticed something about the updates for the latest greatest ACR (supported versions) on some (not all Nikon NEF files). I am going to show you a camera that is near and dear to my heart and one that now seems to be...
This has to be the best condition, least used, camera I have ever seen that was not bought and hoarded by a “collector”. This is a Nikon FM, not an FM2 which means that it was made between 1977 and 1982. That is really old and this is a black paint version – yep that is black paint over brass – not plastic and not anodized. Typically cameras that have had more than a couple rolls of film through them and actually shot have “brassing” this one has NONE....
Actually I should call this eBay lessons or something. You probably know by now I am a habitual eBay surfer. I watch like a gillion items a month and buy about 1 thing every two months or so. I always buy really low risk stuff – return policy – etc. Never any high dollar stuff and I limit the stuff I even look at, well, at least even intend to maybe buy to things that are cool and nice but… Nobody pays a lot of attention to – no...
Believe it or not the most popular topic on this site has been NEF presets for the last two weeks. Who would have ever guessed? Hey maybe I will start charging for them and get rich. Actually most of them are quick and dirty versions for cameras that I do not own. I am still working on my own presets for cameras that I do own. Nikon cameras. Treat these as starting points that will probably need to be tweaked in order to match NX2 colors and picture control...
Okay – I have a limited number of images to do these from so they are NOT perfect. Here is my first crack at the D5000 for Picture Control Standard, Neutral, and Landscape. Before I finish any of these cameras I really would like some feedback from people that own the camera. I need to know where they are “off” compared to NX2 or a JPG of the same picture control – NEF example images of where they are off as well. For your enjoyment and amusement. RB
You can probably guess that I have had more than a few conversations regarding NEF color rendering lately. In the past I have ranted and raved about not only the color wrongness of Apples CoreImage RAW conversions for NEF files but also about the white balance. Over the years the situation has gotten a little better and a little better. It is still unbelievable to me that Apple is about the only vendor decoding NEF files that has not figured this out yet. The rest have so I am...
Many of you have been sending me NEF files for cameras I do not own – Thank You. I am sure that people that download the presets will thank you as well. I have been working on them here and there. The ones I have posted so far are rough drafts. These are rough drafts as well. For cameras that I do own it takes me a while to home in on what I ultimately use and with some NEF files I have a couple of different ones depending...
I have had a number of interesting email conversations with some fellow Nikon shooters. Some who use Aperture and some who Don’t. A lot of people that I have had conversations with are sending me NEF files so that I can develop some presets for cameras that I do not own. I thank you and promise to get to it very very soon. I am working on a bunch of cameras right now. One of the side conversations that I had surrounded Nikon color, the “beater camera” post that...
I have had about 9 dozen conversations with Nikon shooters over the past week regarding Aperture 3 and Nikon NEF RAW file rendering. Most of them are extremely frustrated with Apple and Aperture and “CoreImage” – I just wanted to go on record stating my feelings on this. First of all if you have been reading my posts for more than a week you have probably picked up on my own personal frustration with this situation. Actually frustration is not the word – maybe bewilderment, rage, disdain, hopelessness, anger,...
