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

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Subject: [Leica] Elements 5.0 Versus Lightroom 1.0
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Tue Jan 30 14:54:26 2007
References: <000401c744b6$866dd4f0$6501a8c0@asus930> <C1E50464.EB25%heninger@adobe.com>

Wade, I bow to your expertise and experience with Lightroom. I have neither.
Regarding PS, I'm often surprised that people have a different threshold 
regarding paying for software than say, good camera gear.
Personal choice, I know.

Photoshop, for me is like a very well set up darkroom, where as an amateur, 
I can invest significant time, if needed, in an
individual image with fabulous control. This follows careful and individual 
scanning treatment of my film originals. Naturally the
equation is different for volume handling, say of large quantities of files 
such as a pro would deal with.

Guts call regarding not needing to do major work some times ;-) Of course 
everyone in this group always shoots with perfect or
nearly so, exposure and composition.

Cheers
CS2 Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Wade Heninger
Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2007 08:19
To: LUG Leica; G Hopkinson
Subject: Re: [Leica] Elements 5.0 Versus Lightroom 1.0

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.;-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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







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