Why I buy this one ?
- U-Point technology delivers powerful tools to help you fully realize the potential of your photographic imagination
- Makes NEF, JPEG and TIFF processing and editing elegant and easy for any photographer
- No complicated procedures; interface provides intuitive access to all of the tools you need
- Select and isolate an entire image or selected areas within the image for enhancement
- Adjust any of up to nine different sliders with Color Control Points: size, brightness, contrast and hue

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What our customer's say!

"Powerful software", With this software you will be able to edit in professional level pictures you have taken and they will look with a real professional look. very intuitive and easy to learn, Capture NX is a not expensive solution for you editing purposes. However, the real potential is when using Nikon's RAW format, beause if using a simple JPG picture, not all the possibilities are available. But still, you can imprve a lot those pics. One of the problems I have found is when trying to edit pictures taken with a HP still camera. Due to the compression format they use, Capture NX will not open them. But using other brands like Kodak, Fuji, Sony, Canon or Casio, editing will be just a few clicks. As it uses a non-destructive edit system, you can undo many changes without risking the original file. I think it s a good alternative if your budget does not allow you to buy a copy of Photoshop. Capture NX offers a very precise and accurate edit just in one part of the picture if you need it, or work with the whole image. It requires some time to really know how to operate this program, but you can be sure it would be less than other edithing software.

"For a D80 its the more efficient way of removing chromatic aberation.", I had to buy and use it for that purpose only. Then I switch to photshop to get the real work done.
The user interface is clunky, though it has some good ideas, I just wish I hadn't had to buy it for just the one reason. Its quite slow as well. You have to shoot in RAW to fix the CR automatically, which this program then does with one click.

"Excellent - very good system for price", This is a top-drawer software program, and certainly my choice for managing RAW files. It's easy to learn and instabtly has helped to "tune" some recent photos. Two thumbs up!

"Very Useful ", I would definitely recommend Capture NX and now Capture NX 2 which you can get a 30 day free trial from Nikon directly then purchase it here if you like it and judging by all the responses and my humble opinion I think you will. It is not going to do all the things that Photoshop can do but it performs awesome in the most common photo editing tasks, and the software is so intuitive it is actually fun to play with. It does eat up alot of computer resources so keep in mind if using a taxed or antiquated machine.

"Nikon Capture NX", i'm disappointed that i just ordered and installed this software only to find out that capture nx2 will be released at the end of june. it is more compliant with intel based macs. of course wait to purchase if you're using a newer mac. i imagine i didn't do good research at the time, but am also wondering why amazon didn't have the information - other sites did.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Great for NEF Conversion", Let me give you some background: I own a Nikon D40, Photoshop CS3, and shoot most of my images in the NEF (RAW) file format.

I never realized this before, but the way different software applications render NEF files varies a ton. In post processing, I used to open the image in "Adobe Camera RAW" which is bundled with Photoshop, edit it a bit in there, and then do some further editing in the actual Photoshop application.

Not so anymore.

I was reading Thom Hogan's product recommendations review page [...] and notice that he rated "Capture NX" higher than Adobe Camera RAW for RAW conversion. So, I decided to download the Capture NX 30 day trial from the Nikon website, just to give it a shot. I wasn't expecting much of a difference.

WOW! Was I in for a surprise! The way Capture NX interprets NEF files is SO much better than Adobe Camera RAW! The colors of the images are way better, and the images look much more similar to how they do on the LCD screen of my camera. I'm not kidding!

I absolutely refuse to open my NEF files in Adobe Camera Raw now. I now open the NEF files in Capture NX, make adjustments to them that can only be done with a RAW file (such as white balance editing), and then save the image as a JPEG. Then, I open the image in Photoshop CS3. Since it's now a JPEG, it looks just as it did in Capture NX. I make further adjustments to the image from there.

So here's what I think: If you shoot in the NEF file format a lot, get Capture NX (download a trial of it first to make sure it's right for you), but don't get it for serious image editing. I still use Photoshop CS3 for serious work on the photo because the user interface of Capture NX is unintuitive for me. Also, you're given a lot more power over the image with photoshop, in my opinion.

Have fun!

"Better Choices", Capture NX is a good Nikon product for the price, but rather than compare this product to Photoshop the real alternatives should be Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture. Both products offer much more than NX does to the photographer without the steep learning curve of PS. If you only want to spend about $100.00 to jump into camera RAW than this product will be the one buy, but if you haven`t made your purchase yet, I would definitely recommend a look at Aperture and Lightroom. Either one will be less of a resource hog, are a more refined product and are designed just for the pro/sumer photographer. This is particularly true about Lightroom which coming from Adobe brings their years of experience with digital imaging.

"Good news.......no layers", The good news about Nikon Capture NX is you don't have to deal with how to do layers! What you do get is several global editing tools and several selective localized area editing tools which all are quite easy to learn. The only thing I miss is the "clone stamp" tool.

"Nikon Capture NX - Lots of Power but a Whole New Interface", This is a very powerful tool for processing digital images, however the new GUI requires a whole new learning experience before someone comes up to speed on it's use

"Nikon Capture NX for windows and Mac ",
Nikon Capture ( NX )shines as a basic post processing software doing 75-80% of what an average Nikon Digital SLR owner would use .It is required because of its excellent sharpness and color rendition with the Nikon Jpg and proprietary NEF ( Nikon electronic file )file that is far better than non Nikon programs .

But for the hardcore digital editor it falls short of photo-shop software and adobe light-room . People who buy capture Nx after using the many tools to eliminate background objects - layers - extreme perspective correction - brushes and filters - cut and paste - clone tool - of photo-shop will be disappointed . You really need both ,that being said the learning curve is very steep for photo-shop for an average user.

Check the Nikon chat-rooms / forums as there are still some compatibility issues with Mac or windows with newer software. Most post processing software requires over 1-2 GB of ram on a newer machine also another hard drive ( 300GB + at 7200 rpm ) is nice to have.

Compared to other software NX is cheaper and easy to master in a week or so of playing with it. Try the free down load to sample it for a few days and see how your machine handles it. The large 10 MP Raw ( NEF )files run painfully slow and older PCs .

I recommend it to every serious Nikon DSLR photographer.