Have anyone tries ACDsee v.7

[birddog114]

Your fast photo viewer and manager.
http://www.acdsystems.com/English/Produ ... atures.htm

[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

[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

[Greg B]

Marvin

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

[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

[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)

[Greg B]

onimod, welcome to another melbourne member!

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

[onimod]

not file size - pixel size
ACDSee says my images are 3040 x 2014

[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.

[Greg B]

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!

[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

[jethro]

it is great use it all the time

[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!