Advice on Nikon D200 Camera Settings

I have a Nikon D200 and I was wondering what camera settings would be more beneficial for me with working in Lightroom with RAW (DNG) files? The settings I am referring to are: Sharpening, Tone Compensation, Saturation, etc. Is it better to adjust these in the camera or in the post processing of the images in Lightroom.
Also, a DNG question: I will be converting all of my NEF files to DNG, should I just leave RAW compression off in the camera or turn it on???
Thank you in advance.

So, in essence, it is the generated JPG from the RAW file that looks like crap when the tone compensation, sharpening, saturation, etc are all set to none in the D200??? I notice a big difference with the thumbnail view, I wasn't sure if it effected the actual RAW file. It seems to me though that I have noticed from time to time that some of my images do not need sharpening (since my camera settings are on 2+ sharpening), however, when I increase the sharpening in Lightroom I begin to see the halo effect due to the increase sharpening. With that being said, I set my camera sharpening back to normal and I will have to try it and see what I get (I have not shot the camera since the change).

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Why do files from my Nikon D200 camera which are shot at 28MB come into Aperture at only 7MB?
I had these images in Large Fine JPG format at 28MB but when imorted and started working with them they are only & MB files in Aperture?

Léonie,
honestly speaking, I have done most of my image adjustments since 2006 (when I bought the D200) in various image processing applications (e.g. Capture One, Bibble 5 - now turned to AfterShot Pro by Corel, Lightroom at a friend's PC). I also tried Nikon's Capture NX but never liked it. Speaking of images that have been worth while keeping and working with as a RAW file I never saw any difference. As far as I can say with respect to Aperture 3 I come to the the same result as I did with the other software.
People may say that with the disk space being so cheap now it is not worth while thinking about that. But there is one other aspect that can be of advantage in certain situations: The compressed RAWs are transferred faster to and from the the card than the uncompressed files. Also, the time for decompression in applications seems to be shorter than that saved while reading the smaller files.
Before I started to use the compression feature (which in fact should be not lossless in the case of D200) I studied some reviews on that, of course.
Citing one of them one could say
"I tried to make duplicate shots to compare. I gave up. The mechanical exposure repeatability of my camera and nature itself aren't stable enough to let me make two captures close enough to see any possible difference between compressed and uncompressed raw.
People do see differences. They are seeing fluctuations in their technique shot-to-shot, not any differences due to the compression."
by Ken Rockwell
If you are interested, here is the original article by Ken Rockwell.
Another very elaborate investigation can be found here.
Again, a quote from the controversal discussion on that comparison:
"The ‘lossy’ NEF compression is really a clever use of information theory to save space by eliminating redundant raw levels. The noise which is unavoidably present in light effectively dithers tonal transitions so that the compression is *perceptually lossless*."
by a poster named emil
As far as I have read elsewhere, newer cameras as the D300 even have really "lossless" compression algorithms.
Cheers,
Michael

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As I am scrolling through my iphoto library, I see the photos from my D200 for a second, then they all change to a white square/rectangle. I checked info on these squares and the info is intact. I double clicked some of the white squares to bring them into the iphoto work space and while they would not open, the thumbnails of all the photos showed up in the viewing area above the work space. I tried to drag some of the thumbnails into Photoshop as I normally would to work on them and I get a white circle with a slash through it and the photo does not open in Photoshop.
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12happy
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Select one of the blank squares in the iPhoto Window and right click on it. From the resulting menu select 'Show File' (or 'Show Original File' if it's availabe.) A Finder window will open. It should have the file selected. Does it?
I tried to drag some of the thumbnails into Photoshop as I normally would to work on them and I get a white circle with a slash through it and the photo does not open in Photoshop.
Two things
Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder using the settings found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
(Credit to Old Toad for this one).
also:
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Regards
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Nikon D200 Settings and Lightroom

I have a Nikon D200 and right now I have my camera settings as 2+ for sharpening and 1+ for tone compensation. Is it better to leave sharpening as 'None' and tone compensation as 'Less Contrast or Normal' and do those adjustments in Lightroom? The nice thing about having these settings currently is that I have less processing of my RAW images in Lightroom (since the sharpening and tone compensation are already pretty much set).
Any suggestions or ideas? Thank You.

>... since the sharpening and tone compensation are already pretty much set.
If you like the results you're getting from your in-camera settings and don't want to process your own images -- stick to JPEG. Only Nikon Capture and Picture Project can read the D200 camera settings the way you like them. To keep it that way, Nikon hides or encrypts your settings from other applications.
Other raw processors --like ACR or LR -- rely on you to customize the "developer" to process your raw files the way you like them. As a courtesy, LR baselines your raw images to a set of standards the development team felt gave you the best place to start. You need to do the rest.
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Would love to hear anyone's experience on this. I use a Nikon D80.
Thanks much.
Gary

Robert,
Specific camera settings,etc, are in fact stored in Nikon Nefs and can be read by NX2--or changed, if one wishes in NX2, but nowhere else, as has been stated.
Eric,
Presets, or profiles, may come close in some instances to reasonably good starting points for NEFs in LR2, so if that is all you need or use NX2 for, then your advice is reasonable.
However, at this point in time, NX2 has some distinct advantages, most notably much more advanced and faster local corrections tools than LR2 and soft proofing, to name two.
However, LR2 editing is integrated with a catalog database, and NX2 is browser based, and that may make LR2 worth the tradeoff for some users. Both, of course, offer non destructive editing.
Each has it strengths and weaknesses, so I use both to take advantage of the unique tools each offers.

Workflow photoshop cs3 on mac with nikon d200/300 camera

I already asked this question at the mac forum in here ...it dealed with the problem that i have noisy pictures anyway after having changed to ps cs3 under mac.Istill make the pictures with my nikon d200/300 camera and i have not chosen any higher iso number. I usually take the pictures in raw format transform them into tiff format after having finished my work and sometimes i produce jpegs out of the tiff file later on.In fact ,all the pictures have this noise effects . Has this got something to do with the colour depht menue in camera or cs3 maybe?

Probably has to do with your default sharpening & noise reduction settings.
If you're comparing to in-camera JPEGs then the JPEGs usually look smoother initially because the higher ISO images will have a fair amount of noise reduction applied.

Nikon camera settings for an adobe only workflow

If I use a Nikon D70, shoot raw, don't use Nikon nx, and want to import into Lightroom as dng--are there certain in-camera setting to use or avoid? Use to think only decision was whether to import as dng or nef. But if Nikon's in camera settings aren't accessible without nx, do you have to rethink all your camera settings just because you want to import into Lightroom as dng?
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Tim

I also just convert my NEF's to DNG on import. I tried some of the presets for import, but quickly realized that all of the photos on a memory card rarely need the same things. I would also argue that most people don't choose all the optimal settings in camera (hence the advantages of RAW).
For this reason, I find my best workflow is to simply edit groups of pictures that are similar. So if I take a few pictures inside at a birthday party, I will spend a few minutes in the develop module changing my settings, and then I will simply sync, auto sync, or copy and paste all of my develop settings to the 10 other photos that have the same issues.
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I have a Nikon D200 which I recently upgraded from a D100. iPhoto imported the Raw NEF files from the D100 no probs. It refuses to import the D200 NEF files for some reason, giving error messages when I try.
Could the NEF files be different on the D200. Will I need to wait for a iPhoto update to cure this or is there something wrong?

Hi folks,
I too just got a D200. iPhoto does recognize the camera when I plug it in but it only imports the jpg's
I just installed Photoshop Elements 4.0 and it has a terrific RAW Plugin that takes the files in perfectly. I did try the Beta Lightroom and it was a big monster on my PowerBook G4 TT 1G. I don't see using RAW NEF files as-is anyway so I will always bring them into PS Elements for editing anyway. If you use the power of the settings on the D200 you won't have to do much editing anyway; esp. if you are more of a point-n-shoot photographer - the D200's so **** good you don't really need to shoot in RAW. If you do a lot of "darkroom" work then you cannot beat a D200 raw file.
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I hope Apple supports our D200 Raw files soon, if for nothing else as the great catalog it is.

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I am using a Nikon D200 with Aperture. When the camera is set to record a NEF+ JPEG file for each shot Aperture only displays the NEF files. Both the NEFs and JPEGs are on the CF card. Is there any reason for this or way to see both the files for each shot?
Advice appreciated.

Short answer.
Your RAW & JPEG images are imported into Aperture when you shoot RAW + JPEG. Aperture only displays the RAW file and stores the JPEG for future use.
You can extract this JPEG file by selecting the RAW image in the Browser and choosing Images>New Version From Master JPEG.

Looking for non Nikon D200 RAW support? BIbble has it, w/ tethered support

Nikon knows cameras, but NOT software.
Bibble just added:
Nikon D200 (Including Tethering)
Pentax *ist DS2
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Why am I posting this?
How does a little shop with a few programmers turn their code around this quickly, and a HUGE shop like Apple cannot?
I used Bibble back in the days when Nikon Capture was the only other player. I am downloading a trial of 4.5 Pro..

Relating to changes to the OS changing the rendering of RAW images, this from BibbleLabs on their update:
"Some users of previous version of Bibble had perceived color that wasn't quite right in certain of their canon images. Based upon that feedback, we have gone and reworked some of the internal processing code and reprofiled the Canon .CR2 based cameras. This has resulted in better canon color then ever before and elimination of occasional green casts in the shadows. While we were at it, we also rebalanced the exposure tables of these cameras to better match results from in camera images.
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Nikon D200 sharpening

What is your favorite sharpen settings for Nikon D200 NEF files? If I used default settings, the pictures looks little bit soft for me.
Thanks.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Ahoj Radke,
If you are shooting RAW then you can ignore the image optimizations, sharpness, saturation, contrast, and WHITE BALANCE at the time of shooting. They have no effect on RAW files--you determine all those parameters when you develop the RAW. That's one of the best things about a RAW file--you can't mess it up (except exposre and focus) at the time of shooting.
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If you over sharpen here the fine detail will be wiped out, if you under sharpen the coarse detail will look soft. Save this as a new camera default setting. This will be applied to all images you import from a D200 camera.
The Sharpening adjustment panel (control + S) is where you can boost the sharpening on an image by image basis. Since the coarse-detail/low-frequency images probably look pretty good with just the sharpening from RAW Fine Tuning then this will probably be used mostly for fine-detail/high-frequency images to boost the sharpening a bit more.
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So, in essence, it is the generated JPG from the RAW file that looks like crap when the tone compensation, sharpening, saturation, etc are all set to none in the D200??? I notice a big difference with the thumbnail view, I wasn't sure if it effected the actual RAW file. It seems to me though that I have noticed from time to time that some of my images do not need sharpening (since my camera settings are on 2+ sharpening), however, when I increase the sharpening in Lightroom I begin to see the halo effect due to the increase sharpening. With that being said, I set my camera sharpening back to normal and I will have to try it and see what I get (I have not shot the camera since the change).

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