Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff, I will take the reverse view - the evil empire trying for world domination in graphics is Adobe, and I have no idea how they have not had the antitrust book thrown at them yet. I have the CS3 suite, bought for me by my son's friend who used to work for Adobe here in India - I had asked for the standalone Photoshop, but he landed up with this. To upgrade it to the CS4 suite here they want only the equivalent of US$1200. I use mainly Photoshop, but they refuse to upgrade the one program, and insist that I have to upgrade the whole suite (90% useless to me)! No other company in the world can get away with this sort of pricing and gouging. I have decided to skip one generation. I have total sympathy with Nikon and Canon, and am firmly on their side that their proprietary data is their own. Ask Adobe to make the code for Photoshop open source - will they do it? Leica, Pentax and Hasselblad use DNG because they have no money to support any thing else. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > Bob if the camera manufacturers weren't so fond of inventing new > proprietary > Raw formats, Adobe wouldn't have to keep reverse engineering and decoding > their new formats to provide the upgrades free for owners of Ps. I think > they currently support more than 170 Raw formats. Madness! > That's why we have a DNG format. Thank you Leica and Hasselblad and Pentax > for using it. > Don't blame Adobe for Nikon and Canon's policies! > On hardware any computer that you were happy with for CS3 will work the > same > for CS4. They have just added openGL support for the smooth new scrolling, > zooming, flick panning teatures. Any modest half way modern video card will > work. You can see a list of tested ones in Ps support. In fact you don't > want a card with the most on board memory (unless you play games) because > you'll have less RAM available to Ps when the video memory is mapped to > RAM. > Remember that if you use LR2 rather than ACR you will have the same Raw > upgrades available. > 2009/5/20 Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net> > >> Thanks, all, it sounds like the upgrade may turn out to be worth it. >> It does disturb me that I need to spend $200 on this upgrade so I can >> work on the latest raw files (Canon G10 and so forth) and then I'll >> probably need to upgrade my computer as well. >> >> Does it ever stop? ?No, of course not. >> >> In the meantime I'll look for the best price. ?Chris, I'm not a member >> of PPA....I was a member of NAPP but I let it expire. ?I know they >> offer a discount but I can't remember how much. ?I'll give them a call >> tomorrow and maybe they'll tell me as an enticement to re-up. >> >> --Bob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Cheers > Geoff > 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends' > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >