I would convert first then archive the RAW's for future use in case I find that one keeper that just begs to have the NEF used (as it, most of my pics just go up on SmugMug or find their way to Shutterfly books). Is it possible to do a batch convert that would preserve the existing directory structure without doing them one directory at a time? (I have about 30k in approx 100 directories) Is it reasonable to assume that a converted JPEG from either program will be just as good as a JPEG when shooting RAW+JPEG?Ģ. I've got ViewNX and Capture NX2, so I can use either to convert to JPG, but I have a few questions first:ġ.
All well and good, except that I haven't really been methodically keeping JPEG copies. The Amaze-demosaicing of the program alone eats 15 seconds.I've been shooting NEF for some years now and, though I love the possibilities of the format, I'm starting to think I'd rather just work with the JPEG's and archive the NEF's (metadata writing is part of this). The human fiddling alone should take some time )ģ6secs/picture is actually not bad compared to the performance of RawTherapee on my (Turion X2 元35) - CameraRaw is actually a bit faster on it too (edit: but somehow I like the RawTherapee-interface more).Įdit: Just for the statistics - in RawTherapee twiddling my standard knobs (white balance, more sharpening, adding denoising and curves) for a bad indoors-picture from my D90 nearly doubles processing time (from 30 to 54 seconds). So converting will take a bit more time of your general cpus time.
The whole point of converting your RAW on your computer is to fiddle a bit more with the parameters than available in your camera chip - which is specialized for converting fast and good. You might speed up by using multiple cores (you tried: parallel execution, if supported by the program) and a lot of ram (your os does: caching the files). This won't be sped up significantly, regardless which program you use.
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