These samples were converted from the RAW NEFs to JPGs using Nikon View NX and Irfanview 4.10. No other post-processing has been performed on them. The pictures are posted here for comparison purposes. That is, how good is Irfanview's RAW to JPG conversion compared to of Nikon's? It is much faster than Nikon's and if the quality is just as good, then Irfanview will be my batch converter of choice. One little bug now is that the Exif data is not preserved. But I expect this will be fixed in a future release.
Warning: The originals are around 2.5MB in size