ACDsee Pro 5 and nikon d5100

[mikeysaling]

I have a strange prob with this combination.

When i load images from the SD card into ACD and click view the image is nice and bright and as i expect it to be. However as soon as i click either develop or edit the image (after a couple of seconds) goes dull and flat. Anyone else have this ? or know a work around .

 

[swanseamale47]

I'm guessing your seeing the raw file defaults rather than the embedded jpeg?

 

[mikeysaling]

Wayne - you are correct - reply i have from the ACDSee forum >>

What you see at first is not your raw image, but a jpeg preview placed within the file by the camera, using whatever you camera's image processing settings are. Perhaps you have the camera set to bump up contrast and/or sautration, or do some sort of dynamic range expansion? ACDSEe does not try to reproduce your camera's settings, but it does let you save your own settings. So tweak one picture the way you like then save those settings as the defaults within Develop mode and they'll automatically be applied to every image, just as your camera is automatically applying its own processing settings when it creates the preview.

It works

 

[swanseamale47]

ACDSee is very under rated, I love the shadow highlight feature (light equaliser I think it's called) I have briefly tried the new version and notice it's got closer to lightroom with non distructive editing.

 

[MKD]

Hi

ACDSEE doesn't convert from RAW formats correctly.
Effects applied by the camera setting's i.e. Vivid are not transferred from the RAW image to a saved JPG image.

I shoot in NEF then use Adobe Camera RAW to convert to JPG and then back to ACDSEE if changing tones/lighting/saturation etc. This works fine, I do agree that ACDSEE is a great viewer and Tonal editor.

Mike