#Nikon capture nx d vs lightroom software

Eager to see what the new program could do, I downloaded a copy (use this link if you don’t want to sign up for any of Nikon’s mailing lists) last night. I was immediately struck with the idea that this could be a potential option for me if I was ever forced to abandon Adobe if and when they drop Lightroom Classic and only offer the cloud based Lightroom (no Classic). Indeed, NX Studio seems to parrot much of Lightroom’s feature set with tools like a slideshow viewer and a map (powered by Google Maps). In addition to being a RAW processor, it offers more database management controls a la Lightroom.

#Nikon capture nx d vs lightroom software

NX Studio is their new (and free!) software meant to offer some of the capabilities of Adobe Lightroom. In a press release yesterday, Nikon announced the availability of NX Studio.

Nikon delivered a surprise in that regard yesterday. Because of the doubts I have with Adobe regarding the future of Lightroom Classic CC, I’m always kind of on the lookout for something new that could replace it if they forced me down the cloud-based rabbit hole. I’ve also talked about both how I use Lightroom and my misgivings with it in this post. So I never used it to great extent except on a few particular files. It didn’t have the integrated file management of Lightroom. Capture NX-D was just a single tool in the workflow, though. It does the best job with Nikon files in my humble estimation. I still will pull up Capture NX-D if I’m looking to extract every last bit of image quality from a RAW photo. Back in June of last year, I wrote a post comparing simple conversions of Nikon RAW files using Adobe Lightroom and Nikon Capture NX-D.