[Leica] Lightroom 2.0 strengths

[dbirkey at hcjb.org (Duane Birkey)]

Thanks Tina for pointing out LR 2.0's new offline archive management 
capability....  That was something I absolutely need and had kept me from 
considering Lightroom up til now. Wade had written me earlier saying that it 
was never going to happen.  I'm thrilled they reconsidered. 
 
If you use and embed keywords into your photos... Lightroom provides the 
easiest and best way of finding images of any of the software I've seen.  
The whole metada filter system is really the benchmark for all future 
systems. It will show you all of the keywords for images in a chosen 
folder... (which is helpful when you mispell a keyword and don't catch it)  
including subfolders, if you choose that option...   When you choose a 
keyword, it will immediately show you all of the files with that embedded in 
it, and you can do that at multiple levels.
 
I like that you can also look at all images in a folder and it's subfolders 
(if you choose that option)... which is wonderful for people who sort things 
into many levels of subfolders.  I have a network drive that someone went 
folder happy on...  Drives me batty....
 
I will probably still use Photoshop for alll of my editing... perhaps Bridge 
applying my metadata templates... but I'm buying LR 2.0 for finding photos...
 
Duane  (thanks Tina... and Wade!) Birkey