Bibble 4.8 or Nikon Capture (NX)?

[DigitalPhotography]

For Nikon dSLRs, which RAW converter would you choose - Bibble 4.8 or Nikon Capture NX?

[cyclohexane]

I have not used Bibble 4.8, but I did talk a little bit about Nikon Capture NX here. Most of the images in the thread embedded in the thread were converted with Nikon Capture NX. Nikon Capture NX respects the in-camera image parameters for the initial conversion, so if you want to save time by presetting certain things Capture NX can help you with that.

Here's the paragraph where I talk about my opinions of Nikon Capture NX. There's some more talk scattered in the thread.

In general, I actually like Nikon Capture NX... when it works right. The code seems to still have bugs in it that haven't been ironed out, and I don't like how it resets all the pallete windows whenever I open a file. I like how NX respects the in-camera settings for the initial rendering of the file, and it puts the things I'm most likely to want to change immediately in a expandable menu on the right side of the screen for easy access. The color is better than anything I've been able to wrestle out of ACR, but that's probably a given seeing as it is Nikon's very own software. Unfortunately, it lacks the polish of Adobe's products and has some ways to go. Sometimes I feel like I'm clicking on something, but NX won't do anything. I suspect that the demo was pushed out quickly to stem complaints about D2Xs RAW support and to simply let the end users become beta testers. I remember beta-testing STEAM before Valve put it out for general use, and Nikon Capture NX reminds me of the way the STEAM beta felt. Hopefully, Nikon and nik software won't follow Valve's extremely slow approach to refiniing STEAM, as STEAM felt about the same to me last year, and that was four years after I tried out the beta... but that's another story.

I'm still an Adobe Camera RAW fan, as it's the most effective in my workflow.

[Blinky]

Adobe Camera RAW... it does the job, no-nonsense, integrated with PS... that's my personal choice anyway.

I've not used Bibble or NX. I have used the previous versions of Nikon Capture and they were buggy and slow... like you might expect when a camera company tries to develop software.

Chip

[cyclohexane]

Nikon Capture NX has a real software company, nik (no relation to Nikon except previous collaboration), behind it, but aside from the U-points and color the interface can't hold a candle to Adobe Phtooshop.