Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/29

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Subject: [Leica] I Need A Quick and Simple Image Viewer for Mac
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (Philippe)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:54:19 +0100
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LR is cheap for what it does Bob.

And works fast if your PC/Mac is fast ?

I can't see myself without its powerful and efficient database, its editing 
capabilities, and export or printing features ?

The only downside is the treatment of fuji files, but I guess you wouldn't 
be affected by that.

Amities
Philippe



Le 29 oct. 2014 ? 18:19, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> a ?crit :

> Thanks, Bob.  I hear what you are saying, but LR is still a bit slow on the
> intake whereas, as Leo points out, PM is blazing fast. I know people who
> have 25,000+ images in a LR catalog and if I undertake this enterprise in
> LR I'm afraid I will be in that group. For 95% of these images I just want
> to see them and there has got to be a cheap fast app for that.  Or maybe
> there isn't.
> 
> --Bob
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Bob Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Robert,
>> Not sure of your reticence to use LR. It's perfect for what you want to
>> do. It's only a database and adding images to it only takes up very little
>> space on your disk. Renaming the folders in LR is also easy.
>> I've many thousands of images in my catalogue, some from over 10 years
>> ago. It's very simple, efficient and powerful.
>> Just don't think it's worth your time to reinvent this wheel....
>> IMO of course.
>> Best,
>> Bob
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Oct 28, 2014, at 4:46 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> When I started using digital cameras back ten or so years ago I started
>>> saving the image files in folders named by......year. Or by......camera.
>>> This was obviously an extremely bad idea since I now don't remember what
>>> might be in those folders, or if I am looking for a specific photo I
>> don't
>>> know where it might be.  I don't see the need to import all those image
>>> folders and their contents into my Lightroom catalog but I would like to
>>> quickly scroll through them and rename the folders to something more
>>> helpful.  Photo Mechanic http://www.camerabits.com/ comes to mind (I've
>> got
>>> an old license I could upgrade) but I'd be happy for any other
>> suggestions.
>>> 
>>> --Bob
>>> 
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