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Nikon Capture NX 2

Capture NX 2 Advanced software for simpler, more intuitive full-scale digital image processing and editing.



Main Features

• NEF, TIFF and JPEG file support – realizes the full potential of NEF files and non-destructive editing.
  
• U Point™ technology - simplifies selection and isolation of all or chosen areas of an image to be enhanced.
  
• Show selection – shows image areas to be adjusted in reverse black-and-white view for easy, accurate control.
  
• Edit list – helps photographers track, cancel or add new modifications to an image.
  
• Image browser – comes with the advanced functions including labeling, sorting and editing and makes quick adjustments directly through each image thumbnail.
  
• Batch processing - enhances multiple images automatically by applying a user-selected series of adjustments to several images at once.
  
• Selective tools – include Brush, Lasso and Marquee (four kinds), Gradient and Fill/Remove, for positive or negative application of enhancements.
  
• Color management control – advances control of how colors of an image correspond to colors that a printer can produce.
  
• Multifunctional versatility – inherits such advanced Nikon Capture functions including Color Aberration Control, D-Lighting, Image Dust Off, Vignette Control and Fisheye-to-Rectilinear Image Transformation.
  
• Improved noise reduction – based on the latest, most advanced Nikon algorithms.
  
• Distortion control - reduces pincushion and barrel distortion effects.
  
• Nikon Total Imaging System compatibility - expands the world of Nikon photography even further beyond conventional limits.
  

System Requirements



[Windows]

CPU		1.0 GHz Pentium III or higher(2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or higher recommended).
OS		Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional.
RAM		256 MB minimum (1.0 GB or more recommended).
Hard disk		200 MB required for installation.
Display		800 x 600 pixels (1024 x 768 or more recommended) with 16-bit color (High Color/thousands of colors) or 24-bit color (True Color/millions of colors) recommended.
Others		• CD-ROM drive required for installation • Internet connection required for some options

[Macintosh]

CPU		G4 or G5.
OS		Mac OS X (version 10.3.9 or later).
RAM		256 MB minimum (1.0 GB or more recommended).
Hard disk		200 MB required for installation.
Display		800 x 600 pixels (1024 x 768 or more recommended) with 16-bit color (High Color/thousands of colors) or 24-bit color (True Color/millions of colors) recommended.
Others		• CD-ROM drive required for installation • Internet connection required for some options

Capture NX Functions/Files Compatibility Chart File Function Nikon D-SLR images Nikon COOLPIX RAW (NEF) images JPEG/TIFF images created with Nikon COOLPIX or other digital cameras Camera Adjustments Color Mode*1 O — — White Balance*1 O O*2 — RAW Adjustments Exposure Compensation*1 O*3 O — Auto Color Aberration Control*1 O*4 — — Image Dust Off*5 O*6 — — Lens Adjustments Vignette Control*1 O*7 — — Fisheye Image Transformer*8 O — — Color Aberration Control O*4 O O D-Lighting*9 O O O 10 Megapixel Output O*10 — —

*1 Can only be applied to NEF (RAW) image data. *2 Calculate Automatically option is not available for new white balance setting. *3 When opening NEF image data with Capture NX, for which a negative value had been chosen for exposure compensation using Nikon Capture version 4.3.2 or earlier version, adjustments added to areas blown out in the original image might not be realized on the newly opened data. *4 With D2X and D200, this function is not available for use with multiple exposures or images created with image overlay. *5 Can only be applied to NEF (RAW) image data taken with a CPU lens. RAW data created with a camera that doesn’t feature Image Dust Off is acceptable only if taken using required settings. *6 For the D1X and D1H, Image Dust Off is only available with firmware version 1.10 or a later version. Cannot be applied to images created with the D1. *7 Automatically applied to the RAW image data created with a combination of a D- or G-type lens and a digital SLR camera compatible with lens information records (D2 series, D200, D100, D70s/D70, D50 and D1X/D1H firmware version 1.10 or later). *8 Compatible with AF DX Fisheye 10.5mm f/2.8G ED lens only; does not correctly process images taken by a D2X with Hi-speed Crop On. *9 D-Lighting corresponds to Digital DEE featured in Nikon Capture Version 4.1 or earlier version. Adjustments made using Digital DEE function will not be realized on the NEF image data opened by Capture NX. *10 Can only be applied to RAW image data created with a D1X.