Last week I bought a Nikon D300 with the 18-200 DX VR lens. In the week since, I've been playing around with settings and testing out different ways of taking pictures. I clicked off about 350 shots so far just goofing around basically.
I don't currently have any decent editing software, but I did install a trial version of DxO. The included "Capture NX" trial software hasn't been loaded yet. It's been a crazy week in general....
Anyway, I took a few shots in "RAW + JPEG" and decided to try out the DxO software on one picture. Here is the data on the picture:
Nikon D300
Nikon 18-200 VR lens set at 80mm (handheld, no tripod, VR on)
A: f/5
S: 1/4
ISO: 3200
After running through the DxO program, I resized them down to 1800x1196 from the original 4288x2848 (trying to keep the file size manageable.....)
Original JPEG:
Here is the DxO'd JPEG:
This was just a quick pass at the picture, as I'm sure I didn't get all the settings right in DxO to really get the best corrections. But none the less, I'm pretty impressed with this program.
Just thought I'd share. I'm clearly not up to the level of some of you guys (professional or damn near) but I hope to get there. Now if the PNW winters weren't so bad for lighting (flat, dull light and nothing but grays.....) I'd get some more shots in. Thankfully this isn't like my 35mm film days. It was expensive to learn back then!