On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Herb Chong wrote: > digital enablement has been less than rewarding on the software front. Photo > Browser is about as minimal as one can get and still be able to do > something, and PhotoLab is only a little bit more useful. i suppose it is > just having to cut all those corners to save money. in PhotoBrowser, i > can't slide the divirder bar between the tree control and the thumbnail area > to the right to show long path names completely. i have to use the scroll > bar at the bottom. i can resize the information area to show more or less of > it. this also means that the preview window at the bottom left is fixed in > size. if i want to see an image larger, i have to load it in the previewer > by double-clicking on a thumbnail. there is no indication in the viewer or > PhotoLab that they are paying attention to the monitor color profile, so all > adjustments are suspect. PhotoLab forces me to pick the type of image i am > saving before i choose Save. the TIFF16 images i created from RAW files > don't save the color space information. it also doesn't do after-the-fact > noise reduction. it also forgets its settings unless you reload them each > time you launch the program.
Gotta say I was underwhelmed by Photo Browser. On the other hand, it is version 1.0 (as is the *istD) whereas the Nikon software that I am used to (and works for *istD images, even reading some of the EXIF header correctly) is version 5.0 and also sold with pro-level DSLRs. DJE
