It is a different type of product and work flow. There is not "camera raw" it just imports the images and you have all the mostly used photography tools. Many like me, barely use photoshop anymore as Lightroom does 90-100% of the work that needs to be done. (depending on the type of work it is of course.) The nice thing about LR is that you can choose to edit the photo in photoshop once you have it where you are ready for big heavy lifting.

You should try it to see what you think.

To your original post - you need to do all raw edits in NX2 if you work in that work flow.

Is there anything lightroom can do that you dont with camera raw + photoshop?

Just a Thought
Use Lightroom rather than Capture
As they are both Adobe products, they will integrate seamlessly
you can download a free trial for 30 days

But then I cant access the things like exposure controls in camera raw.

Save as a TIFF from NX2. Import that into PS.

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Capture and View NX2 save their changes nondestructively inside the NEF file as a series of steps (instructions). You will find a basic JPG with these steps applied but that's all. The adobe or apple raw converters don't understand the Nikon (NX2) data so you start over from the raw sensor data.

See this thread for discussion on why this may or may not be a good idea

http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=13062

What in particular do you want to do in photoshop?

Whats the proper way of transfer images from Capture to photoshop? It is crap. I do processing
in capture. Fix exposure and lens things. Save the image as a nef. Open in photoshop 13. It does not have the changes that I have made. Im not sure if it camera raw that does not work or the nikon software. Any ideas?

Hi Fov,
Don’t worry!!! The NEF raw files which are lost during transfer process can be easily recovered only if they are not corrupted. Even I was under the same problem couple of day’s back where I lost some of my precious raw photos while transferring it to computer. Then I got to know about photo recovery software and I used it. This utility helped me to recover Nikon RAW files. So it can also be helpful in your case only if the files are lost not corrupted. Following are the details which can be useful
http://www.nikoncanonphotorecovery.com/recover-raw-images-from-nikon-d4-dslr-camera.html
Download link: http://www.nikoncanonphotorecovery.com/download/nikoncanonphotorecovery-windows.exe
All the best,
Senny

I am getting a new computer and going to install newer version of capture nx2. However, the version on BH Photo website does not list windows 8. Is anyone out there run windows 8 with capture NX2 ? Comptable? Also, nx2 will it work with my D800?

I have been having the exact same problem the last few weeks when transferring NEF files from my Nikon D800. I don't use any transfer program just simple copy/paste and a few files every time is corrupted.

Then I edit in Lightroom 4.2

Today I fortunately still had them on my SD card and tried to transfer the same two files again and re-import into LR and they were fine?!?!?

Weird

So save them on the SD card until you know they work for sure. Its a drag, but for now it works for me and I have my NEF file uncorrupted

Hi, long time has elapsed since post. In meantime a lot of changes was done with this application, most noticeable:
- the name of application changed to digiCamControl and a new web site lunched with wiki and forum http://www.digicamcontrol.com .
- the style of application changed to a metro like interface
- motion detection in live view
- lot of bug fixes

It's a real shame I have done a little research and it looks like BlueSLR has gone out of business. The website is not available or the support page through iTunes.

looks like there is a business opportunity there!

I have BlueSLR (Bluetooth device) and the Zesty cable for iPhone. I like the BlueSLR for the wireless capabilities when I am moving around allot. I use the Zesty cable when I am stationary as it uses less battery from phone and camera.

Both work equally well and I have had no issues with the devices, apps or camera getting the data from them.

D800 & D3s cameras and iPhone 4S iOS6. Both apps work fine with the new iPhone OS.

HTH

Later,
Jeff

Here's the link to the Amazon GPs for NIkon if anyone is interested

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005D84SDO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B005D84SDO&linkCode=as2&tag=ifootpath-21

Interesting stuff. I take images for our walking directions website. We record a GPS track on the way round and I can import this into Lightroom 4. I can then manually place the images on the track. I would rather be able to record the GPS data directly to the photo as it would make it much easier. I am surprised that you can't connect the iphone to the camera (I have a NIkon D7000). Anyone heard of a way to do this.

i know you could take an iPhone picture and just copy the data but seems a bit long winded in the digital age. Love the D7000 as I have just updated from a D60.

there is an on camera GPS logger on Amazon.co.uk now for less than £40 so I might just buy that and forget the iphone option.

Our iPhoone app records a great track that so that bit is not the problem (app is called ifootpath if you are interested)

Would welcome any thoughts

I like the simplicity and ease of use of View and Capture. I have LR and PS but the first stop for me in post is always View, then Capture if necessary. Like Eric, I use PS for more significant pixel work but 90% of my shots go to View and done.

I use LR primarily to find photos with keywords.

I used to use capture NX2 all the time and loved it, it shipped free with my D300. When lightroom4 came along I downloaded the free trial version and did some comparison tests with the editing tools and concluded that lightroom's color pallet and sharpening tools gave lot better results. I also often use the manual option in Lens correction, also better than in NX2. Lightroom has a great key wording system where NX2 has none.
NX2 does have one better aspect about it and that is you can use the develop tools with all the adjustments, where in LR you are limited to just a few main adjustments offered with the develop tools.
When NX2 was first released it was well ahead of its time offering big bang for your buck, I have read some place that mega-bucks went into its development, but sadly it is slowly being left in the dust as lightroom4 seems to be becoming more and more popular. I can't help wonder if Nikon have made a consious desission not to update NX2 and just keep offering free VeiwNX2 instead as it has an adjustment panel supplied with it.
If NX3 was released tomorrow I would certainly trial it and have a play but it would have to be pretty special before I would change back.

I've not heard anything. It seems very strange to me that Nikon would, if for no other reason, miss a marketing opportunity and leave NX2 un-touched for such a long time. Every other company I can think of, updates it's software every couple of years, and charges it's users for the privilege. I'm greatful that I don't have that expense, but bemused none the less.

So now we have october 2012 and still no news for capture nx3. I really like cnx2 because I know it well and can do post-processing quickly. however, none of the great new nik plug-ins for sharpening etc. work with cnx2. So the first time in years I am considering moving to lightroom. Any news if there will be cnx3 soon?

Thanks guys. You input is appreciated.

You can just sell it right now; you do not need to uninstall it or anything. It's not like they're using DRM like for most video games.

buzzworms said:
So if I simply uninstall the Nikon Capture NX2 software before selling, the key code is "de-registered" and available to the new user?

Actually you don't even have to do that. I have my NX2 installed on 3 machines, and 2 others and never uninstalled it. No one tracks software that closely that comes free with a purchase.

buzzworms said:
So if I simply uninstall the Nikon Capture NX2 software before selling, the key code is "de-registered" and available to the new user?

Yes absolutely, as I said before, the software and user manual are available free to download from the Nikon website, the only thing of value is the product key that makes the free trial version of software, a fully permanent licensed copy. As you say, uninstalling it automatically allows this key to be used again on another machine.

Yeah, go for it.

buzzworms said:
So if I simply uninstall the Nikon Capture NX2 software before selling, the product code is "de-registered" and available to the new user?

SkintBrit said:
\When you uninstall the program from your computer it will automatically allow the new user to regiister it on theirs. ALL YOU'R SELLING IS THAT PRODUCT KEY, which turns the free trial download into a permanently licenced copy.

So if I simply uninstall the Nikon Capture NX2 software before selling, the key code is "de-registered" and available to the new user?