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I bought Capture NX while I was waiting for Adobe CS3 to come from the USA. Capture NX is available a reasonable price here in Germany while CS3 is about 4 or 5 times the price of that available from the discount houses in the US which only deliver to a US address. It took me a couple of months to arrange delivery of a "US" version, hence my purchase of NX in the meantime.

Capture NX is much quicker bringing in Raw than Adobe's ACR. On screen, the images look slightly better in Capture NX. Had I not already ordered CS3, I would have probably stuck with CaptureNX. You can make as many changes to the RAW file as you like and the original is always recoverable. This means you can do everything in the RAW file and just export a final JPEG or TIFF. The controls are simple and easy to use although the manual is rubbish.

However, now I've had a chance to use Adode's Bridge/ACR/PS3 workflow, I'm really happy with it. I use Capture NX less and less, especially now I've worked out how to the ACR Batch commands.

My advice would be to try to go the CS3 route - but there is a steep learning curve.

Graham