Complete Guide to the Nikon D200- P24:As with all my books, a full draft was reviewed by volunteers to weed out unclear language and misstatements. This book is better because of them. | earlier version of Photoshop and don t want to upgrade to CS2 yet download the DNG Converter from Adobe s Web site and first convert your D200 NEF images to DNG files. Earlier Photoshop versions can convert DNG files. Other Useful Software Software for digital cameras falls into what arguably are only a few categories. Basically to fully exploit your D200 s abilities you need computer software that Converts NEF data to a common format. NEF is a Nikon-proprietary format and usually differs a bit from one model of Nikon camera to another. Moreover a NEF image isn t viewable as is it requires software to convert the raw sensor data into a viewable image. Allows image editing. An image editing program is our digital darkroom allowing us to make changes to cropping color contrast and a whole host of other image attributes. Other specific image manipulation tools. While the generalized image editors often do very good jobs with the types of manipulations you often do a few things are still better done by a stand-alone or plug-in tool noise reduction is probably the most notable of such tools but many of us long-term digital photographers also use dedicated tools for sharpening and moiré correction. Also in this category would be panorama software and programs that correct lens defects such as linear distortion. Catalogs or organizes images. You ll end up with thousands of digital photos. You need a way to organize and later to conveniently find them. If it also handles archiving to CD this is a big plus. I could go on endlessly as it seems like new digital photography software shows up on my desk every day. But this is a book about the D200 so I m going to limit my choices of programs to talk about and types of software to things that have some relatively direct link back to the camera. Thom Hogan s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 691 A word of caution I m writing this very early in the D200 s availability and thus there s a chance that new products
