I was trying to test drive my trial download of NX2 with some wedding pictures from the weekend and am confused with the output and would welcome any helpful comments / advice as I struggle to get to grips qwith workflow issues.

The perceived problem:

The original raw file was 9.24 mb raw file.

I batch processed a group of shots and saved in a new folder at maximum jpeg resolution. The same file then showed as 1.26 mb.

When I open it in photoshop cs2 and look at the image size it is 28.7 m at 300dpi and shows an actual pixel size of 2592 x 3872 and that it will print at 12.9 x 8.6 inches.

My question is why does it show as such a smaller file size in NX2? Using a raw converter that I think came with a sandisk card I usually drop from a 9mb file to 4-5mb. Am I losing a lot of quality in this conversion?

Does anyone think NX2 is any good?

Should I save a nef, tif or jpeg files or a combination of them and won`t that take up loads of storgae space on my spare 500gb gard drive?

Any guidance appreciated.

I am off to try to convert it other way now to see what happens.

Update - as suspected the other raw conversion whilst slower, saves a file that is 72.3m at 300dpi,pixel size 4113 x 6144 and wil print at 13.71 x 20.48 - dont understan it but on the face of it no good downloading NX2.

I can't help directly as I've only just started using Capture NX, but I've done a lot of reading over at www.nikoncafe.com and am sure you might find you answer there.  I haven't joined the forum (I only have time and energy for this one!) but they seem a friendly bunch if you felt like you wanted to ask there.

I was actually surprised that my Jpeg conversion with NX has left me with a file as large as 5.4MB  

Thanks for the link Martin and good luck with it Jinky.

                            Graham.

Thanks Martin and Boots. I think I must have done something random in a group batch. Only done single images since and all came out well / large jpeg files. (Min`e bigger than yours Martin :-)  )

So impressed with NX2 I`ve had it bought for me as a birthday present - much better than my old converter that came with sandisk I think. Does great selective boosts etc in parts of the image with one button - cracking.