AB007 Posted November 16, 2012 Share #1 Posted November 16, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Does any one use Photo Ninja or has experimented it? If so, please share your views. I primarily use LR3. Supposedly, it is a great RAW converter. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nggalai Posted November 16, 2012 Share #2 Posted November 16, 2012 Does any one use Photo Ninja or has experimented it? If so, please share your views. I primarily use LR3. Supposedly, it is a great RAW converter. Thanks. I gave it a shot, out of curiosity. But not for too long, so the following, short, unordered list of impressions is highly subjective. Great noise control. Well, what else to expect from the people behind NoiseNinja? Impressive highlight recovery; I like it better than LR4’s. Weird user interface, didn’t work for me. Swift processing of files, but the viewport is rather slow. Sometimes, I could watch Photo Ninja update the viewport in tiles. Might be due to the computers I tried it on (MacBook Pro i7 and iMac i7 – not the fastest graphics grunts out there). Pleasing M9 colour rendition, akin to CaptureOne. Have I mentioned the UI doesn’t click with me? Photo Ninja doesn’t work inside my workflow, but I think it’s something people who “just want a RAW converter” should look into. Also, it processes Leica Monochrom files or grayscale TIFF from a scanner – pictures my prefered RAW processor (CaptureOne) still can’t deal with. Cheers, -Sascha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_R Posted November 19, 2012 Share #3 Posted November 19, 2012 Prefer it to LR4. Why ? After getting the hang with the user interface, you need less time to get what you want. Was a Capture One fanboy until now, but they dont support the Monochrom, so I was kind of forced to work with Photo Ninja for a while. A direct comparison of C1 6.4 and PN 1.03 for M9 files showed 1) comparable sharpness and detail with PN, this is good and 2) a bit oversaturated colors (otherwise comparable) with PN as compared to C1, and 3) the best highlight management of all programs I know, outperforms C1 easily, and is better than LR4. You need a fast computer but this is true also for C1. PN support is responsive. They say that they are already working on the Photoshop integration, and on batch processing (my two greatest wishes for PN). Really worth a try. Carsten Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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