March 6th, 2012· Support for RAW images captured with the D4, D800 and D800E has been added.
· Extra High 1 (Extra High) and Extra High 2 items have been added to the Active D-Lighting pulldown menu under Camera Settings in the Develop section of the Edit List.
· When "Always use the latest Color Reproduction Process" in the Picture Control Utility Preferences is selected for images captured with cameras released prior to the D4, these items will be displayed.
· Event ID can now be displayed under File Info 2 in the File & Camera Information section of the Metadata palette for images captured by, and to which IPTC information has been added using the IPTC item in the camera’s setup menu, the D4.
· Display format for the following items in the Edit List has been modified.
· Active D-Lighting under Camera Settings in the Develop section
· Color Moiré Reduction under Camera & Lens Corrections in the Develop section
· An issue that prevented sufficient application of vignette control enhancement for RAW (NEF) images captured with the Nikon 1 V1 and Nikon 1 J1 with A firmware Ver. 1.10 or 1.11 and B firmware Ver. 1.10 installed has been resolved.
· An issue that prevented accurate display of lens information in the Metadata palette for images captured with the Nikon 1 V1 or Nikon 1 J1 and a 1 NIKKOR lens has been resolved.
· When certain images with GPS information attached were saved in JPEG format, Capture NX 2 sometimes quit responding. This issue has been resolved.
March 5th, 2012· An issue that prevented application of Auto Distortion in the Develop>Camera & Lens Corrections section of the Edit List palette to images captured with the combination of a Nikon 1 V1 or Nikon 1 J1 camera with A and B firmware version 1.10 installed and a 1 NIKKOR lens has been resolved.
· Lens information is now displayed in the Metadata palette for images captured with the Nikon 1 V1 or Nikon 1 J1 using the Mount Adapter FT1 and a CPU lens.
· Support for images captured with the Nikon 1 V1 and Nikon 1 J1 using the Mount Adapter FT1 has been added.
· An Astro Noise Reduction option has been added to Noise Reduction in the Camera Settings portion of the Develop section in the Edit List palette. This option reduces the randomly spaced bright pixels that occur in images of stars captured with long exposures.
· An Auto2 option has been added to New WB under White Balance in the Camera Settings portion of the Develop section in the Edit List palette. This option is available with RAW images taken with the COOLPIX P7100.
· When white balance is changed to Auto2 and a settings file saved, a white balance setting of Recorded Value will be applied if the settings file is used on a RAW image that does not support the Auto2 white balance setting.
· When Set Gray Point was selected from White Balance in the Camera Settings portion of the Develop section in the Edit List palette, and the image clicked to specify a portion to use as the gray point, the point selected was sometimes not accurately reflected in the resulting white balance if the image had first been rotated. This issue has been resolved.
· This software now operates as a native 64-bit application under the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
· An Embed Preview When Saving NEF/NRW item with Thumbnail and Preview and Thumbnail only options has been added to the General panel of the Preferences accessed from the Edit menu.
· In addition, preview images can later be added to NEF/NRW files saved without embedding them using the new Update Preview option in the Browser palette context menu and File menu.
· The default setting for the Use Image Cache option in the Cache Settings panel of the Preferences, accessed from the Edit menu, has been changed to off (not checked).
· When Capture NX 2 Ver. 2.3.0 is installed with the Use Image Cache option enabled (checked) with the previous version of Capture NX 2, Use Image Cache will be disabled (unchecked) and cached data will be deleted.
· An issue that resulted in inconsistent display of images in the Browser palette and images inside the folder selected in the Folders palette has been resolved.
· When a batch process was run for images captured with simultaneous RAW + JPEG recording by selecting Run Batch Process from the Batch menu with a new naming convention applied to the RAW and JPEG images, new files were not always created for the selected images. This issue has been resolved.
· An issue that caused the Folders, Browser, and Metadata palettes to be shifted down when Windows was set to display the taskbar at the top of the desktop has been resolved.
· When Set as Default Printer was applied to some printers with Windows, a Capture NX 2 stops working error message was displayed when Capture NX 2 was exited. This issue has been resolved.
· When tone curves were edited using Adjust menu>Light>Levels & Curves, Adjust menu>Color>LCH, or Quick Fix in the Develop section of the Edit List palette, positions of anchor points changed unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
· When the mouse cursor was positioned over the Set Black Point button in the Levels & Curves dialog, accessed via the Adjust menu>Light, to display an explanation of the feature, white point information was displayed. This issue has been resolved. (French version only)
November 12th, 2010· Support for RAW images captured with the D7000 has been added.
· Support for Nikon Message Center 2 has been added.
· On systems to which ViewNX 2 has been installed, Nikon Transfer 2 is now launched when the Launch Nikon Transfer button is clicked or Launch Nikon Transfer… is selected from the File menu.
· When Photo Effects... was selected from the Filter menu, and the Auto button in the Photo Effects palette was clicked multiple times, the Brightness value sometimes decreased. This issue has been resolved.
· When a RAW image captured with the D3100 using a Nikon Speedlight was saved in NEF format after adjustments under the Develop section of the Edit List had been applied, and the new NEF image was later opened, the adjustments applied were reflected in the image, but the adjustments and their values were not properly applied under the Develop section of the Edit List. This issue has been resolved.
· However, even when such images saved with Capture NX 2 Ver. 2.2.5 are opened in Capture NX 2 Ver. 2.2.6, adjustments will not be properly applied. Adjustments must be reapplied using Capture NX 2 Ver. 2.2.6.
· When images were printed in landscape orientation with some printers, a portion of the images was not printed. This issue has been resolved.
· With some printers, when Printer... was selected from the Page Setup dialog and the OK button clicked, the values indicated for margins sometimes changed. This issue has been resolved.
· When arbitrary values were entered for margins in the Page Setup dialog and borderless printing was then selected in the Source, the margin values did not change to "0". This issue has been resolved.
· When Select Picture Size was selected in the Page layout dialog, image frame(s) in the preview window switched to portrait orientation. This issue has been resolved.
· When the insufficient memory message was displayed while running a batch process with multiple images open, image thumbnails sometimes became completely black. This issue has been resolved.
· When the Notify when completed box in the Processing Queue dialog was checked and the Processing Queue dialog closed while running a batch process, the Batch process has finished now message was displayed several times. This issue has been resolved.
· An issue that caused computers running Windows 7 to enter sleep mode during batch processing has been resolved.
· When multiple images open in the image window were adjusted using options in the Camera & Lens Corrections palette of the Edit List, an error message was displayed. This issue has been resolved.
· When Original was selected from the Version menu in the Edit List after editing or saving an image, the processing indicator rotated continuously and the original image was not displayed. This issue has been resolved.
· An error message was sometimes displayed when attempting to use the Selection Brush with some images. This issue has been resolved.
· When NRW images captured with the COOLPIX P7000 and a Nikon Speedlight were opened, Capture NX 2 froze. This issue has been resolved.
January 22nd, 2010· Compatibility with 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Home Basic/ Home Premium/ Professional/ Enterprise/ Ultimate has been added. When run under 64-bit versions, the software operates as a 32-bit application.
· Compatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic/ Home Premium/ Business/ Enterprise/ Ultimate (Service Pack 2) editions has been added. When run under 64-bit versions, the software operates as a 32-bit application.
· Specifications have been modified so that when 25 Photos on Page, or a higher number of photos per page, is selected for Select Layout in the Print layout dialog, the Use Thumbnail Data (Draft Use Only) box is automatically checked.
· This resolves an issue that prevented printing when 25 Photos on Page, or a higher number of photos per page, was selected for Select Layout.
· An issue that caused an error message to be displayed and prevented printing when borderless settings were applied with some printers has been resolved.
· An issue that prevented accurate application of borderless print settings has been resolved.
· An issue that prevented specification of the same margin for left, right, top, and bottom margins in the Margins section of the Page Setup dialog has been resolved.
· An issue that caused a delay between clicking of the Print button and actual initiation of printing has been resolved.
· When an image was opened on some computers with AMD CPUs, Capture NX 2 quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
· An issue that caused an error message to be displayed during batch processing of a large number of files has been resolved.
· When a batch process was run with the Notify when completed box in the Processing Queue - Process Running dialog checked, a blank window was displayed. This issue has been resolved.
· When a batch process was run for multiple images with the same shooting date and time, the processed images were not saved with the correct file names. This issue has been resolved.
· An issue that caused batch processing to fail before completion when a batch process was run with certain settings has been resolved.
· An issue that caused an error message to be displayed when multiple enhancements were applied to images has been resolved.
· An issue that caused an error message to be displayed when attempting to open several images previously saved with Capture NX 2 has been resolved.
· When the Camera & Lens Corrections checkbox was checked (Develop section of Edit List), enhancements were not applied to an image opened in the image window and displayed at 100%, and the enhanced image could not be saved. This issue has been resolved.
· When image window display was maximized with Desktop selected for Window menu>Workspaces>Additional Screen for the primary monitor on a dual monitor system, the image window disappeared. This issue has been resolved.
· When the zoom tool was used to enlarge an image displayed with Full Screen or Presentation selected from the View menu, the portion of the image clicked with the zoom tool was not displayed at the center of the window. This issue has been resolved.
· An issue that prevented switching between “+” and “-“ operations when the ALT key was pressed while using the selection brush has been resolved.
· An issue that caused folders in the Capture NX 2 Folders palette to be displayed in a different order than with Windows Explorer display has been resolved.
· When the crop tool was used to select a crop and the ENTER key pressed to apply the crop, the cursor did not switch to a selection tool. This issue has been resolved.
· When a number was entered after a decimal point for some enhancement items with text boxes for entering numerical values in the Edit List, the values could not be changed. This issue has been resolved.
· When "-" (minus) was entered in the Exposure Compensation text box under Quick Fix in the Develop section of the Edit List, it was displayed in red and then “0” was displayed after a few seconds. This issue has been resolved.
November 22nd, 2007· Support for RAW NEF images taken with the D3 and D300 has been added.
· Support for Picture Control has been added.
· APicture Control item has been added to Camera Adjustments in the Base Adjustments. The Color Mode, Tone Compensation, Saturation and Sharpening items have been moved to the new Picture COntrol item.
· An Active D-Lighting item has been added to RAW adjustments in the Base Adjustments,and Sodium Vapor Lamps and High Temperature Mercury Vapor (7200K) settings have been added.
· RAW images can now be saved with lossless compression. Images captured in lossless-compressed RAW format can now be saved in lossless-compressed RAW format, regardless of camera model.(Limited to use with images captured with Nikon digital-SLR cameras).
· The Vignette Control function, which was previously for use only with RAW images, is now supported with JPEG and TIFF images. (Limited to use with images captured by Nikon digital -SLR cameras).
· The function for modifying images captured with a fisheye lens, available in Lens Adjustments in the Base Adjustments, is now compatible with images captured with the AF Fisheye-Nikkor 16mm f/2.8D.
· Features for editing RAW images, previously available in the Camera Settings palette, have been eliminated.
August 9th, 2007· Speed improvement when opening images.
· When any of the operations listed below are performed, Updating image is now displayed in the image window title bar. Enhancements and other operations can still be performed while Updating image is displayed.
· o An image is opened.
· o A different version is selected from the Version menu.
· o Revert is selected from the File menu.
· When Open With... is selected from the File menu for an image saved to CD-R or non-recordable medium, the image is first copied to a separate location and then opened in the other application.
· An issue when Show Lost Shadows was selected from the View menu, and the image display ratio was reduced, the range of lost shadows was also reduced. This issue has been resolved.
· An issue where the Size / Resolution... was edited and saved with the Save Settings... , and that settings file was used to batch process images in different orientations, the resulting aspect ratio was incorrect, has been resolved.
· A issue that prevented the saving of images when the size or resolution was set particularly high using the Size / Resolution.. option in the Edit menu has been resolved.
· An issue that caused RAW NEF images captured with the D1X at an ISO of 570 to appear completely black has been resolved.
· An issue that caused images to be affected when saved with a high Radius value in the Gaussian Blur has been resolved.
· An issue where after an image was enhanced with the selection of D-Lighting... from the Light submenu in the Adjust menu, and then another image was opened and displayed, a black band through the middle of the image, has been resolved.
· An issue that prevented the saving of images edited with the Adjust > Color Profile... and Adjust > Color > LCH... options has been resolved.
· An issue with incorrect displays or missing windows in the Help > Contents section was resolved.
· When Color Lightness, Chrome, and Hue settings in the LCH palette were saved with Batch > Save Settings... and these settings then applied to a different image, the Width sliders did not display correctly. This issue has been resolved.
· An issue that caused differences in values displayed in the Levels and Curves palette and those displayed in the Photo Info palettes Watch Points has been resolved.
· When All was selected in the Advanced portion of the Color Control Point dialog and a new Color Control Point was added, the setting for the new Color Control Point reverted to the default setting (BCS). This issue has been resolved.
· When any of the Control Point settings palettes were minimized and any of the Control Point sliders moved, they reverted to their original position. This issue has been resolved.
· When an internal and external hard disk contain folders with the same name, the folders in each disk were displayed in different order in the File Directory. They are now displayed in the same order.
· An issue that caused an error message to be displayed when the Rotate tool was clicked for a folder selected in the Browser has been resolved.
· An issue that caused an error message to be displayed and prevented printing when printing was initiated while thumbnails were loading in the Browser has been resolved.
· An issue that caused an error message to be displayed and prevented printing when attempting to print from a 6x9 in. compatible printer with 6x9 inch selected in the Page Layout panel of the Print layout dialog has been resolved.
· When the font size used for printing photo information (meta data) was modified using the Change... button in the Meta Data dialog (Print layout dialog > Meta Data... button), Detail Information was not properly printed. This issue has been resolved.
· When images were printed using the printer profile specified in the Color Management panel of the Preferences, the specified profile was only reflected in portions of the printed images. This issue has been resolved.
· An issue that prevented the opening of 2-byte characters from the File > Open Image... has been resolved.
· When attempting to open images saved to folders with long names, or images with long file names, an error message was displayed and the image(s) could not be opened. This issue has been resolved.
· When the file names of images for which 00 was included in the shooting time, were changed with the File Naming options specified below, the new file names were not applied correctly. This issue has been resolved.
· o None was selected for both Prefix and Suffix.
· o Sequential Number was changed to Date/Time Shot and the yymmdd and hhmmss options were selected.
· When multiple images were enhanced and then saved one at a time as separate files with File > Save As..., an error message was displayed while the images were being saved. This issue has been resolved.
· When the Turn of DEP for all programs and services except those I select: option in the Data Execution Prevention panel, opened by clicking the Settings button in the Advanced panel of the System Properties dialog was selected, images could not be saved. This issue has been resolved. (Windows XP)
· When images processed with batch processing were displayed in the Browser, black squares were displayed in the corners of the thumbnails. This issue has been resolved. (Windows 2000)
· When the Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box option was selected in the Pointer Options panel of the Mouse Properties dialog, clicking on a Control Point would cause the mouse to move unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
· An issue that caused a pen tablet being used to suddenly stop responding has been resolved.
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