if u remember jsc_tidus, he covers a wedding with 116 + 50mm F1.8 + fisheye budden he snap damn nice

I thought there's something wrong with the ring since my kit lens can't do it

No wonder some pics I snap colour a bit wierd, so it's called CA

Thanks!

your wish list a bit weird

+9999999

Putrajaya or somewhere around KL, especially during weekends

i am organizing a shoot now. currently left 3 slots. 5:1

organised photoshoot diff from the situation during real wedding day~

i went for a TT organised by EddiePutera and really enjoyed myself (so i carbon copied his TT template.. hehe. tq cikgu!)

When : Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Where : Devi's Corner, TTDI (Devi's Corner, 38 Jalan Datuk Sulaiman Taman Tun Dr Ismail)
Map : http://www.havanaestudio.com/graphic...tdirectory.gif
Time : 8pm to 10:20pm, then 11:20pm til 12am

All are welcome especially newbies who wanna get some photo tips and such. Bring also your pictures and get em oldies to comment em. Bring your latest gear and poison the poor person sitting next to you. Do whatever you like but we aint gonna talk about politics. That's for sure.

anyone going to the above?

Well yep diff situation but why bother people when you can join the shoot and just snap x999 on the real wedding day, all you can do is candid shot and sometime will be buggin others that try to enjoy the occasion. Now that doesn't seem nice, right?

Tomorrow already?

wow.why is that so?

The best conversion you get from Nikon's NEF is still from Capture NX2 unfortunately.

you said that yourself. unless we are not talking about best software for NEF here

Don't understand your question. How do you get from NEF to Photoshop without NX2? You use ACR?

ACR does not interpret NEF files the best. NX2 must be in the equation when you open NEF files.

You're lucky you get to do that. People who have to work, no choice. Only weekends.

Aiyoh... Please don't start to play with words and take sentences out of their context.

Yes, it's the best software for NEF conversion if you're basically comparing output only. That's what the original discussion was about. Then came in issues like noise reduction and speed.

Of course like camera and lenses, softwares likes NX2 and Lightroom are tools of the trade. It's not for everybody lah. What works for one does not mean it would work for another. For volume work like wedding photography, speed and volume is more important. This is why many are still not using NX2. You need a powerful CPU and lots of memory and at times, the software will still hang.

Of course this does not also mean that people who do not use NX2 automatically give lousy photos. I've seen people with Lightroom who do wonderful photos.

@jchue73, you might not know who is ifer
He speak base on his experience which I think none of us here can beat his experience in photography.

This post has been edited by KTCY: Mar 23 2011, 09:03 AM

i guess misundertand again?
ifer said "best" software, i guessing he is saying "quality"?
while jchue's point is ... best software is depend on user's opinion, speed or quality or both...

just like car horsepower strong but use petrol like drink water also not best what.

This post has been edited by Agito666: Mar 23 2011, 09:17 AM

Yes, he has the experience and background education but that does not mean that he cannot be misinformed?

If somebody tells me I'm wrong, I will go back and find out for myself and see if I'm indeed wrong. I will humbly admit and move on to say that I've learned something new today if indeed what I said earlier was incorrect. Perhaps being at where he is makes it harder to take it from a nobody like me? Being stubborn is clearly not the way the way forward. If he chooses to differ in opinion, I'm perfectly fine with it.

I don't think it's a misunderstanding. If you look at his original post and my reply, it's clear what he was referring to and what I replied.

Well, this is not the first case of you

p/s : I mean stubborn and insist you're right. Ok. I rest my case. You can go on with ifer. Lazy

This post has been edited by KTCY: Mar 23 2011, 09:51 AM

maybe they're pixel peepers and like RAW files better?

how about ViewNX2 then? good or not? or use PS CS4?
lazy test...

Yes, use Adobe Camera Raw.

So now I'm the offender and you're playing police?

Which were the past cases where I was wrong? DoF? Best UWA lenses?

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Added on March 23, 2011, 10:31 amI'm told that for simple NEF to JPG conversion (exposure compensation etc), they are the same as NX2 as the View NX2 uses the same engine.

Ok. Like I mention, for best quality, open NEF under Capture NX2. You can convert straight to JPG or if you want to PP further under Photoshop, save NEF to TIFF under Capture NX2 and open the TIFF file in Photoshop. Was warn you that the TIFF file will be huge.

This post has been edited by jchue73: Mar 23 2011, 10:34 AM