Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/30

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Subject: [Leica] Elements 5.0 Versus Lightroom 1.0
From: heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger)
Date: Tue Jan 30 14:19:34 2007

On 1/30/07 1:35 PM, "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Regarding the pricing, if it is for non-commercial use, and you have a
> qualifying member of your household within the education
> system, you can purchase an academic version very much cheaper than the 
> retail
> version. The software is identical, only the licence
> differs. Our resident Adobe rep (Wade) may step in here.

Yeah, PS is a bit of cash, but not compared to purchasing pretty much any
Leica doohikey that is chump change.  Consider my M8 batteries ran $140 with
shipping and my new 30 year old Summicron 35 was about a grand. It runs the
same as the cost of a low-to-middle of the range PS digital camera these
days.

Speaking for myself, I am spending most of my time in LR and not Photoshop.
I've never spent any time in PSE for obviously reasons.  Lightroom is so
much more efficient than PS or PSE and some of the new tools (targeted
adjustment, curve manipulations) are so liberating after years of goofy
adjustment layers and the like...well, I don't look back much except when
some major work is needed.

Honestly, IMHO, if major work is needed, one really should pay more
attention when taking the actually the picture.;-)

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w a d e  h e n i n g e r
u s e r  e x p e r i e n c e
a d o b e  s y s t e m s ,  i n c







Replies: Reply from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Elements 5.0 Versus Lightroom 1.0)
Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] Elements 5.0 Versus Lightroom 1.0)
Reply from heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger) ([Leica] Elements 5.0 Versus Lightroom 1.0)
In reply to: Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] Elements 5.0 Versus Lightroom 1.0)