Nikon D1X Macintosh Software Nightmare

Paul Harmer · #8 09-10-2001, 04:29 AM

I agree with all of the above (I run a Powerbook G3), but sometimes the NEFF format is so handy, especially if you're relying on the LCD screen on the shoot. It's saving the files out of Nikon Capture 2 that takes the time - I could almost live with the slow screen re-draws if it wasn't for that.

Is there any news on when MacBibble is coming out?

NV4 crashes my Mac (even with 300Mb RAM allocated to the program) when I open anything more than about twenty images. Distressing!

BrianGay · #9 09-10-2001, 05:10 AM

I e-mailed my concerns to Nikon Uk about the slow and painful speed of capture 2 on my Macs. They did however send me a CD they had obviosuly burned 'in house' with a handwritten 'Nikon capture 2.1' on the front. Surprsingly although they guy said that it would not do much for improving Mac performance this update has speeded up the redraw rate on my Pbook G4 and also the batch conversion speed.

Don't get me wrong its not as fast as busy professionals need but its better than it was.

What I don't know is whether this release is generally available.

Brian Gay

Pixelhead · #10 09-10-2001, 07:35 PM

As far as I've been able to figure out NC2 doesn't work on OS 9.1 or above.

I have had trouble free performance however on a G3 Pismo Powerbook and a G4 Dual 500 running OS9.04. I do not use Nikon View it's a total waste of time in my opinion. My work flow is usually to down load the NEFs on location from my Microdrive onto the Powerbook via the PC Card slot . When I get home I then transfer the files via firewire to my G4 then drag them on to Cumulus. From there I edit and open directly into Capture 2 to make any global corrections before saving as a TIFF to open in photoshop. With 500Mg of RAM dedicated to NC2 it is certainly not speedy but it is usable.

Jeremy · #11 09-12-2001, 02:41 PM

My problem is a bit different. Colour slides scanned to my Mac hard disk on a coolscann IV in TIFF will onlky open in B&W in FotoStation 4.5. I can't get a fix from anywhere.

Derek · #12 09-12-2001, 08:31 PM

G4ti 500 Mhz powerbook 384 MB, OS 9.1. After reading posts on this site and DPReview, I decided to try turning virtual memory off on my G4ti powerbook with NC2. This appeared to increase the speed of NC2 although I have not done a scientific timed test.
Derek

Bill_Cannon · #13 09-12-2001, 09:15 PM

I too found the Nikon software to be painfuly slow. I have downloaded several different demo's of software such as FotoStation, PhotoMechanic Pro, Portfolio and iView. I also have Cumulus. So far I am not thrilled with any of them. Yes, they each have some great features, but none are a truly whole unit for acquiring the images, capturing and handling them, moving them and archiving them. This is not really that much to ask for. I like the FotoStation interface but I do no like it's reliance on servers. iView seems o.k. but not good for acquiring and field work. PhotoMechanicPro is great for acquiring, captioning and moving images but NOT for cataloging.

Maybe I am missing something, but I feel that I just do not see anything that truly streamlines the workflow.

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