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Older NEF files not sharp in CO, but are in NX-D

Vaughn
I am running Windows 7 and CO Pro 7.2.2. I just downloaded NX-D out of curiosity.

Today I docked a drive from 2008-09 with sports action. I tried to look at them in CO and they were really blurry. The thumbnails are small, but look sharp. I shot those files with a Nikon D3.

I then looked at the very same files in NX-D and they are sharp as a tack.

I'm at a complete loss to explain the problem and don't have a clue how to deal with the files in CO.

Vaughn
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  • Vaughn
    I should have mentioned that current shots are sharp.
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  • Keith Reeder
    The Nikon software will be applying an in-house "recipe" - including sharpening - that Capture One won't/can't replicate by default.

    But how the images look in software doesn't matter - it's the output that tells the real story, and I'll bet that a suitably-tweaked Capture One conversion will match or beat the Nikon software's conversion in sharpness terms.

    Edit; Or are you saying that the images are so blurry as presented in Capture One that they're effectively unworkable?

    I recall that there have been other posts making similar observations.

    Screen shot, please?
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  • Vaughn
    They are so blurry as to be marginal to unworkable.

    The puzzle is that I was using CO I believe back then just an earlier version and they were fine.

    I don't doubt that CO is better than Nikon software. I will say that on contemporary files, the ND-X thumbnail is sharper and the image I work on seems sharper also. Don't worry though, 'case I am a believer in CO.

    Vaughn
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  • SFA
    Vaughn,

    You may not be viewing what you think you are viewing.

    For example, could you be previewing an old lower resolution preview file on a higher resolution system?

    I don't know - just wondering what the differences by be attributed to.



    Grant.
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  • Vaughn
    While the monitor is newer, the overall system is much the same. The point is that I am viewing the very same NEF file using two different software packages. CO and NX-D are converting the same NEF file. So I don't think older resolution is even in play at this point.

    It seems as though I should be able to revisit old files and using CO 7 make good files now.

    Vaughn
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  • SFA
    [quote="Vaughn" wrote:
    While the monitor is newer, the overall system is much the same. The point is that I am viewing the very same NEF file using two different software packages. CO and NX-D are converting the same NEF file. So I don't think older resolution is even in play at this point.

    It seems as though I should be able to revisit old files and using CO 7 make good files now.

    Vaughn


    I agree.

    I can't comment on NEF as I use Canon (mainly) but I can't imagine why there should be any difference in the processing of old files. You are opening them, right? Not just previewing?

    I may have some old NEF files somewhere, although perhaps not any I have previously edited with earlier version of C1. If I find them I will check to see what happens.



    Grant
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  • Dave R
    I know it's no consolation but I just opened D1H, D2Hs and D40 NEFs in latest version Capture One Pro and they were all pin sharp. Windows 8.1 by the way.
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