Quick Preview vs Raw

I'm relatively new to digital photography and Aperture, so I may be missing something very basis. But I couldn't find an answer through a search.
When I load my raw images from my Nikon D40x the quick preview images look great - rich blacks, lots of details, etc. When I switch to the raw image to make adjustments I get an image that is very flat, lacks the rich black, loss of details etc. I'd like to start making adjustments with an image with the quality found in the quick preview mode. Is that possible? What am I missing?
Thanks for your help

This is typical of Nikon NEF's the image that you are seeing is probably the embedded preview that reflects the in camera settings (picture control settings) where the default RAW processing does not.
Just discussed this here hate to post the link again but seems that you didn't find it:
[Nikon NEF processing in Aperture|http://photo.rwboyer.com/2008/12/aperture-2-and-nef-raw-recipies>
RB

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Hey all, probably a bit of a "newb" question here... so forgive me, and thank you...
Using a D7000 and often times when I shoot - the preview image on the camera looks BRIGHT, VIVID and ROBUST ... after import however - when reviewing my shots, JUST as I arrow over to the next shot - many of the preview images tend to look better than the processed image that aperture displays once it's done spinning it's wheels.
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I take it you're shooting and processing RAW images?
It's worth remembering that if you have a picture style selected (i.e. vivid etc), your camera might be applying extra contrast and saturation etc to the image you see on the back of the camera. Camera manufacturers do this so that we can give our pictures some extra punch and colour automatically.
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I spent the last few days reorganizing my Aperture library and migrating from managed to referenced files.
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The fuzzyness (even though it's subtle) is killing me since I mainly use quick preview to quickly assess image sharpness and delete the unsharp images quicly after import.
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The rotate and lift and stamp functions are operable. The alignment, crop, patch, brush and redeye tool are grayed out.
I then realized I had inadvertently clicked the "quick preview" mode (button bottom right of window) - likely when dragging the bottom right corner to rescale the window.
Everything seems ok now.
Though the white balance controls are a little unpredictable. Occasionally the tint jumps to a zero value when I am adjusting the temp slider. And often the change that I am making doesn't seem to register.
Hope the QP headsup might save some time for some of you that (like me) didn't bother to read the "What's new" section before installing.

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Message was edited by: antonzzzz

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If the Previews don't meet your needs, try a higher quality/larger dimensions.
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How Aperture Displays Images in the Viewer
on this page in the User Manual.

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Hi,
Probably since 3.1.2 upgrade or 10.6.7 or turning on Time Machine I am experiencing following behavior:
I have project for my family photos in aperture for this Year where I have folders for months and then albums for events. I usually drag and drop the selected images from Import browser to appropriate album.
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- preview pictures are squared
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And here is a example of the image:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17422374/example-squared.png
Thank you for any help or ideas to try.
Regadrs
Princatko
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