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Have anyone tries ACDsee v.7

PostPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:54 am
by birddog114
Your fast photo viewer and manager.
http://www.acdsystems.com/English/Produ ... atures.htm

PostPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:21 am
by Greg B
I have had a preliminary look at it Birdy...

- it is an improvement on v6
- the aquisition from card reader is clean and neat
- has NEF support
- seems to be very stable

I haven't looked at the associated photo editing progs yet, although previous versions have been quite effective if relatively simple

cheers

PostPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:03 pm
by Marvin
Hi Birddog,
I have tried ACDSee 7. It seems OK but I find that the colours in the NEFs are way off. When using Nikon View, the NEF and Jpeg pictures look almost identical, when viewing in ACDSee, the colours seem very dark and unusual. I have decided not to use it and was very disappointed as when I had my G2 I used it exclusively and I prefer the interface and scrolling to Nikon View.
Marvin

PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:56 am
by Greg B
Marvin

As a matter of interest, what colour mode are you shooting?

PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:22 pm
by stubbsy
I know the thread's a little stale, but I find ACDSee a bit buggy and prefer ThumbsPlus 7 Pro which has a digicam Raw plugin that can read and display NEFs. One bonus is you can also set it up so that the photo editor is Nikon Capture

Stubbsy

PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:01 pm
by onimod
I actually bought ACDSee 7 (I know I know...in this day and age...)
I tried it out for a month and decided there really wasn't anything else that I tested that was as fast or customisable. I haven't tried ThumbsPlus.
I don't use ACDSee for NEF manipulation, or even viewing. It still reports the wrong size on my D70 NEFs.
The bottom line was :
far less buggy than v6, much faster than anything else.

(appropriate buyer bias applies to this post)

PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:09 pm
by Greg B
onimod, welcome to another melbourne member!

When you say ACDSee is reporting wrong size on NEFs, do you mean file size?

PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:17 pm
by onimod
not file size - pixel size
ACDSee says my images are 3040 x 2014

PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:24 pm
by Geoff
I haven't used/trialed or seen v7 yet, but I do like v6, just for it's ease of use..so will check ou V7 now-ish :). Cheers and thanx Birdy!! Merry Christmas.


Geoff.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:31 pm
by Greg B
onimod wrote:not file size - pixel size
ACDSee says my images are 3040 x 2014


Yes, I see what you mean. I hadn't noticed that before. Very strange!

EXIF Camera Maker information unavailable for Nikon

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:55 pm
by ru32day
I like it, it's quick, it's convenient to categorize shots for future retrieval.

Unfortunately, Nikon stores some EXIF information (such as ISO) in Maker fields. Although ACDSee 7 says it can access these fields for Nikon, in my experience it doesn't work. The Canon Maker fields work fine.

So far the most flexible program I've found is iMatch, but you just about need a degree to use it.

I'm considering using both programs, ACDSee as my main cataloguing prog and iMatch when I want to print out contact sheets with lots of EXIF info, but I want to play with them both a bit more before deciding

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:00 pm
by jethro
it is great use it all the time

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:52 pm
by skippy
Looks like 7 Pro is different then. ACDsee Classic v2.44 I DLed a week or so ago and installed treats NEF quite strangely - it thinks they're 160x120x16M tiffs!

Works ok as thumbnails! :?