Nikon Transfer and View Update

September 19, 2012  •  Leave a Comment

So it's been about 2 months since I started using the Nikon products regularly. I haven't used Capture much, in fact I haven't done much editing at all. I was creating a collage for a customer and had to remember the Photoshop commands. Which is actually kinda cool. I tell people, "just because I can edit, doesn't mean I want too". Apparently, of late I've been quite happy with the camera output. I'm really loving the d7000.

Transfer is simple and solid. It does what i need it too, It gets pics off my SD cards, puts them where I want and allows me to put the necessary metadata on them. Although, I wish I could put a few more keywords than the field allows (more keywords can always be added after download though). Unless, of course there is a secret to keywords I haven't found yet.

When the download is done, View opens. View allows many viewing options. I prefer the one with a large preview, filmstrip at the bottom, folders on the left and editing tools on the right. Since getting the 7000 and having the Adobe workspace from the camera transferring to View there has been very little post production. I can make many changes just haven't had to. The program doesn't really batch edit, but you can make edits to multiple (or all pictures) nonetheless. You can highlight multiple pictures and then adjust them all at the same time. Scrolling through and deleting the pictures happens quickly. Adjustments and cropping is straight forward, and resetting the RAW file back to original state is also easy. Making a lot of changes does take some time as the program processes each edit. Although, it can process multiple edit sets. That said my computer was in need of upgrade and was painfully slow in it's own right so we will see when the puter is rebuilt.

Once the RAW files are the way I want them its quite easy to convert the whole lot. Although conversion to jpgs is a bit slow (again we will see once the computer is speeding along).

Thus far I'm quite happy and my issues are minimal!!


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