Hey Joe,
Thanks for your answer!
What troubles me is your statement 'LR does not know what to do with much of the camera settings in the original raw data'. Does this mean that when importing NEW pictures in LR it is all the same whether I process them as NEF, JPG, TIF, DNG? And that I'm loosing the strong advantage of Capture Nx2 to thoroughly exploit the camera settings & sensor information? That would be very sad.
roger