ACDSee V7 & Mike's beautiful girlfriend

To get techie for a second - I have just updated ACDSee photo management software to version 7.0.



V7.0 includes support for Nikon .NEF RAW image format - so I've been experimenting with it (using pictures of Mike & Jen!).



Wierd stuff is happening!



So as I shot NEF+JPG I have the original low quality JPG which looks okayish and the NEF. ACDSee displays the NEF files really brightly! (is it scaling displayed colours to top end of the 16 bits per pixel or something?). Anyway If I just 'save as JPG' I get really dim picture. Instead if I use exposure adjust (auto) 1st, then save I get a decent photo.



This photo is with flash by the way ( the one below is without). Next time I'll try my new SB-800 Speedlight flash which arrived in the post this morning:-




(c) Bill Pinnell 2004