Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello I have a question that I hope some more experienced people can help to answer. Since a week I'm the happy owner of a M9. Until now I used a partial digital workflow, using a scanner and PictureWindow Pro as Photo editor. So I have downloaded Adobe Lightroom (3Beta) and started the adaptation process. The technical qualities are superb, however I still have some issues. First the organisation of collections with keywords is good, but until now I have not found how that is done. So the relationship between the physical catalogues and the physical images is hidden, which means that it can be dangerous to reorganize the disks. It could be that it is simply my lack of understanding and experience. However the second issue is moire. I knew that it was present in the M9, but I have not been able to find a plugin or way to handle this in Lightroom. It can be done in an external editor like PW 5pro, but that is a tedious process. So I downloaded a trial version of CaptureOne 5 (pro). In CaptureOne I could reasonable easy control moire (and other issues caused by the lack of the AA filter). So now I have the question, can some of the more experienced users of these products shed some light on the strengths and weaknesses of both. An other question is that the trial download of CaptureOne is for both versions, the regular and the Pro version. Looking on the website of Phaseone there is a matrix with shows the features of both versions. Most of the features of the PRO version I don't mind, however it is for me not clear if there are differences in the library tools that are used for the manipulation of the image (like the moire tool, all the color tools etc). regards Meino de Graaf