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Originally Posted by Stephen Fox
I have been really happy with the output quality of Nikon Capture 4.xx but its real slow. I have the latest version and it takes 2-5 minutes to apply noise reduction and a similar time to convert and pass to photoshop. At first I did not mind because the quality is high but the speed issue is putting me off as I can only work on one photo per hour or so...
Two questions:-
Can Nikon Capture be configured to run faster, hardware upgrade is out of the question.
What RAW converter, if any has a similar high quality output but with much faster operation.
Computer hardware is as follows:-
Athlon XP 2800+
XP Pro
1GB Ram
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The most obvious speed gain can be obtained by doubling your RAM. You should notice an improvement even adding 512MB.
The AMD processors are supposed to be very good indeed.
Unfortunately NC is slow, even on my 3GHz Pentium with 1.5 GB RAM. Disk speed probably also makes a difference, so maybe getting a SATA disk (if your motherboard allows) and using it for the scratch file can help, though I am guessing here.
There is a free RAW converter, being pushed by Andy Rouse, which is well respected. You could always give it a try. Unfortunately I like NC due to the near perfect CA removal and quality RAW conversion.
Leif