Digital BW, The Print

The mystery has been resolved.  I subsequently went to the Adobe site, 
found the forum that discussed Photoshop, and came across a specific 
question similar to mine.  It turns out that when I recently downloaded the 
new Nikon Viewer (to try to take a look at some D2H images that were posted 
somewhere, and could not be seen with earlier viewers),  the new viewer 
created some sort of link to Photoshop and this was overriding the Adobe 
plug in.  So apparently what I was seeing was a primitive Nikon raw file 
manipulator that was built into their viewer program.  When I removed the 
Nikon viewer from my system I got back the full featured Adobe raw 
processor, so now I'm happily back where I was.

I note that what I downloaded was Nikon Viewer, not the Nikon Capture 
program (for which they want something like $150) which is what I had 
thought was necessary to manipulate NEF files if you wanted to do so with 
Nikon brand software.  I was so offended at being asked to pay extra for 
Capture when I had just paid $2K for a D100 that I never even bothered to 
install the trial version of Capture that came with the camera, and went 
directly to Bibble for raw file manipulation, where I stayed until the 
Adobe option came out earlier this year.  So I've never seen what the 
Capture program is like, but I certainly hope that the raw file manipulator 
in Capture is a lot more extensive than what I saw in the Viewer, or I 
can't see many people wanting to buy Capture in the future.

Cheers,
Kip

At 10/22/2003 03:36 PM -0700, Paul wrote:

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>Mine's still full-featured, even though something was just downloaded from
>Adobe. Whatever it downloaded, I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with
>the plug-in. Could you post a screen capture of the new dialog?
>
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>Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
>Paul                mailto:pderocco@...