Mars is hanging in there:
In fact, the planet still dominates the evening from its perch high in the southern sky. But it is receding, slowly, now appearing about half as big as at opposition a month and a half ago.
Bottleneck.
I have noticed that often my photography does not require, nor benefit from sharpness. On the other hand, it is nice to get as much sharpness as possible from the optical system:
This ISO 1000 photo inside a nail salon was difficult because the lighting was a combination of daylight, florescent and regular incandescent bulbs. The NEF editor provides the ability to change the white balance of a photo, as well as many other photo parameters that are set by the computer inside the camera.
I have two such programs, the Adobe Camera Raw plugin, and Nikon Capture 3.5 which came as a 30 day demo with the camera. The demo is up in c few days so I need to decide if Nikon Capture does anything above an beyond the Photoshop plugin.
First off NC looks and acts like a Windows program. Each type of adjustment has its own little windoid, and many windoids can be packed onto a palatte. The actions in each windoid can be turned on and off with a check/ecks mark. Once you get used to it, this lets you isolate the effect of each parameter.
Camera Raw plugin, on the other hand, is a 'file open' dialog in Photoshop that allows you to access a dozen parameters for the image, including exposure and white point color temperature. A zoomable preview image is displayed in both programs.
One of the parameters in both programs is sharpening. Nikon Capture mimics the choices in the camera: none, low, normal and high. Camera Raw uses a slider from 0 to 10. Here are full resolution bits of the above picture, minimally processed with Nikon Capture on the left, and Camera Raw on the right:
In the next few days, while the demo lasts, I'll try to compare the two programs to see if I need to pop for the $130 Nikon Capture program.
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