Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I find it puzzling to follow this discussion. Daniel, there must be something strange with your setup if LR makes your computer crash. I have used LR from version 1.0 on both a PC and a Mac, and it has NEVER given me any problem on either platform. I keep hearing that I need both LR and Photoshop, but frankly I hardly ever open Photoshop, maybe once every quarter. I did upgrade to CS3 only because I could get the upgrade for 62 EUR ($99) so I thought, what the heck. Once in a blue moon I have a scanned film image that needs a lot of spotting, and then PS is a bit better than LR. As for LR2 being a totally different program than LR 1.4, I do not agree with Tina. I installed it at the end of July, in about 10 minutes my catalogue with 7500 images was converted, and the look and feel is pretty much the same, with some subtle changes, mostly for the better. I have just finished a project to get rid of a big stack of CDs which I had used to archive film scans (TIFF files) by copying them onto a dedicated hard drive. I then created a separate catalog for them in LR and imported about 4500 images. Extremely fast, and for the first time ever I have all my film scans in one place and well organized. LR handles the images very fast, and these are TIFFs ranging in size from 30 MB to well over 100 MB (in the case of MF scans at highest resolution). If I could only have one piece of photo-related software, LR would definitely be it. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Aug 17, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote: > --- On Sun, 8/17/08, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > >> From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping? >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 12:02 AM >> At 05:52 PM 8/16/2008, you wrote: >> >>> I do work with images one at a time. I care about them. >>> >>> Daniel >> >> If you care about them, work on them non-destructively ;-) > > I never touch my tiffs (scans) or raw files. They are my negatives. > Destroying my negatives has never been an issue. > > I process and print, just like I've always done even in darkroom days. > > I did like the idea of non-destructive editing, but it wasn't > Lightroom that introduced that, it was Lightzone, software that lets > you process images the way you do in the darkroom. > > Later on Lightroom came out with the same thing and hyped it up, but > the facility was already there (and not as buggy) before Lightroom > came out. > > You say it is a totally different program. > > What I like about Photoshop is that it has never been a totally > different program (that, in order to use, I had to run out and by > another $80 book to figure out how it works since it is basically > undocumented as delivered). > > Photoshop just works. Always has. > > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information