[Leica] taking the Lightroom plunge (also Erwin on RAW sharpening)

[rpalmier at depaul.edu (bob palmieri)]

On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Brian wrote:

> I've been experimenting with Lightroom for months and months, and  
> reading
> documentation about it, and watching the Lynda.com training videos,  
> and then
> experimenting some more.
>
> Today I finally took the plunge and began the batch import (and  
> conversion to
> DNG) of most of the personal photos that I have in digital form.  
> That's 29107
> images. It seems to be importing them at the rate of about 600 per  
> hour, so
> it's going to take a couple of days to finish. I have a couple  
> thousand
> images stuck inside iPhoto that I don't seem to be able to import  
> directly
> into Lightroom that I haven't tried to tackle yet.
>
> I was very dubious about Lightroom when it first arrived because it  
> seemed to
> want to suck my photos into a proprietary database from which I  
> could not
> extract them without using the Lightroom software itself. That is a  
> lock-in
> I'm unwilling to accept. I've slowly figured out how to get around  
> each one
> of my issues with Lightroom, and I've developed a workflow that  
> will protect
> me against catastrophic loss.
>
> I'll keep you posted. And I still have a FireWire disk that has all  
> of my
> pictures as they existed pre-Lightroom; it is going into my safe  
> deposit box.

Brian -

I'm very interested in your admirably cautious yet courageous  
migration - I'll be following your future reports closely.

By the way... have y'all been checking out Erwin's comparison of  
sharpening algorithms in various RAW converters??

http://www.imx.nl/photo/technique/raw_developers_and_the_shar.html

Bob Palmieri