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<p>Thank you all for your generous input. As i see many photographers use more than one kind of software.<br>

I have to agree that Adobe products are more convienient to use that Nikon Capture Nx . Do you have any idea if Raw conversion in PS CS5 produces lower noise jpegs than PS CS3 ? </p>

<p>Hi. <br>

Recently , after long time using adobe PS3 to convert my NEF files to jpeg , i decided to test Nikon Capture NX 2 . I was surprised how my jpeg images looked converted without any corrections from raw files. I mean the level of noise on images from Capture Nx2 is visibly lower than Adobe's jpegs. Which seems to be great news for me as i have Nikon D200 - great body , but not so great sensor.<br>

My question for more experienced photo-net members is :<br>

1. Why there is so big difference in size of jpeg images ? For example : 15,6 Mb NEF file after conversion in CS3 gives 8,44 Mb jpeg , and after conversion in NX2 it is only 5,60Mb. I checked it on multiple images, there was no corrections applied in any of these two RAW converters. They both keep the same resolution of 3872x2592 . Cs3 was set to camera raw defaults settings. Nx2 was to save as excellent quality jpeg. <br>

2. How come my ugly hot pixel shows up only on images converted with NX2 ?? <br>

I hope i made myself clear. Thanks in advance for the time to read this :)</p>

<p>Nikon d50 - absolutely best photo camera in terms of grip. Nothing suits better my palm( i completely do not understand Canon users).<br>

But lately : D700 - i have no excuse for my bad pictures now. </p>