In a quick test on some images:
- I like the quick preview fast D-lighting (was Digital DEE), but prefer the high quality setting with more sliders (as slow as before but the quality is there)
- The noise reduction has been improved and I like the effects, but in high quality mode it is a bit slow and when you change a lot at once it eats resources (1 Gb RAM available).
- The new Photo Effects is pretty good, I especially like the B&W conversions that you can fine-tune with the color sliders (16 bit). It also features Sepia and Tints.
- Under the menu: Image, rotate, there is now a straighten tool. It works like the ruler/rotate arbitrary function of Photoshop. It seems to work quite well. I read at dpreview forums that it softens the image a bit, but I don't see that really happening on a photo that I rotated 6.71 degrees.
- The new histogram palette is nice, especially that you can select a portion of the histogram and it highlights the corresponding range in the image itself. It does not react realtime to changes I make to the exposure, but a second or two later. Realtime would be much better.
The files I used were from a D70 and I used a Atlon XP 2400 machine with 1Gb RAM. I would not want to work on D2X files on this computer. I was playing a bit with an upsized D70 image, from 6mp to 24mp (6000x4000px file). Capture did a really good job with the upsizing, I would not see directly that it was upsized. (Nikkor 50mm f1.4 lens stopped down so there was good quality to begin with). But everything was suddenly so incredibly slow and the file was huge.
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