Noise on second pass using Nikon View

[kurokaze204]

Hi all,

Sorry about this beginners question. I am sure it has been posted here before, but I cannot find anything using search.

When I view RAW files using Nikon View, they open up perfectly! Then...a few seconds later another pass fills the image with noise! Its really ticking me off. When you export to jpg, the noise goes with it!

It takes a fair bit of work in Nikon Capture to remove the noise from the photo just to get it to look like it does when I first open it up in Nikon View.

I think it might be white balance or some other correction being auto applied, but I don't know what it is or how to turn it off.

Thanks for the help.

[MattC]

Kurokaze,

Nikon View (browser and viewer) should not be modifying your files in any way. If it is, then something is very wrong with the installation. I might suggest that the noise is already present in the images, and what you are seeing is first, the low quality preview image (first pass?) where noise may not be visible, then second, the processed file (second pass?), which is taken from the actual image data, where you see the image rendered with all of its warts. Hope that makes sense.

First thing that I would check is your camera settings, particularly ISO (not auto) and that the image is not underexposed (???).

If it is NV, all that I can suggest is removing it and NC, run regsweeper for each and reinstall to the most current versions - not much else that can be done.

Cheers