Hey Nikon users.  If you don't know already, Capture NX has been upgraded and 60 day trial is available for download.   http://www.capturenx.com/

I processed a a soccer team through the new version last night and there's definitely many improvements - although it is still very slow.  This batch of photos was taken late on a very dark evening n overcast night and it helped me brighten up the background a bit quite easily without fussing around.  The control points are also improved.  Why did they release it with it being so * clunky though???  Supposedly takes more than twice as long as Lightroom.

Now, I have 7 more teams to process today so I'm back to it.

Hey thanks!

I use Nikon Capture - version 1.3.3 - and you're right. It is horrendously slow.      It's even slower with the images I'm getting from my D3.      

But I'm sticking with it on the (maybe wrong) principle that Nikon know best how to convert their own RAW files (the NEF format).

I'll download the new version.