[Leica] Lightroom & Bridge

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)]

I was literally on my way out the door to buy an additional gig of 
RAM for my iMac G5 in order to try out Aperture.when Brian's message 
popped up.  Lightroom, part from its felonious file importation 
behavior, was just too slow on the iMac to suit me.

(The recent Lightroom beta version didn't disturb the file structure 
on my disk, BTW, though I had a bad moment when I thought it might 
have.  Maybe that was a beta feature they dropped.

 From the info on Apple's website, Aperture allows you to leave your 
photos wherever you want them.

Anyone used Aperture enough to compare it to Lightroom regarding its 
image processing capabilities?

I'm currently using Portfolio for file management and PSCS for image 
processing, and am shooting RAW with my Pentax K10D (while I'm 
waiting for the M8 to overcome its teething problems).



>I've been using and programming computers for 41 years now, and I've 
>learned a few self-preservation principles:
>
>1. Disks always fail and you should always back them up. This is the 
>first and greatest commandment.
>
>2. In order to store things on disks, people build structures on top 
>of them. People are fallible, and the structures that they build 
>layered on top of disks are imperfect. Use as few of those as 
>possible. This means, for example: store things in flat files 
>whenever you can. Use databases at your peril. Use structured 
>information repositories (address books, indexed mail folders, ...) 
>at your peril. Never ever ever ever keep the master copy of anything 
>in a database or something that resembles a database unless you back 
>it up to flat files every day.
>
>On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
>
>3. If you have some data that matters to you, and you'd like your 
>children to be able to have it after you are gone, store that data 
>in a flat file. If you can't (e.g. a photograph) then store that 
>data in something that resembles a flat file as closely as possible, 
>e.g. a simple file system.
>
>4. You cannot hide complexity under a veneer of simplicity. If 
>something is complex, admit it and deal with it. As soon as you can, 
>make it simpler, or walk away from it.
>
>5. Never use v1.0 of ANYTHING. It's best to start with v2.1, but 
>sometimes v1.5 will have to do.
>
>Lightroom violates #2, #4, and #5. Violating #2 is a design felony; 
>the others are misdemeanors.
>
>>I agree Brian. I don't use any software that dicks around with 
>>where  stuff is on my hard drives. I hate address books and email 
>>programmes  where you have to go looking for the basic information. 
>>Maybe it is  because I am an old programmer but I feel anything 
>>which  unnecessarily moves me away from knowing exactly where my 
>>files are  is a complete no-no. I was about to be seduced but those 
>>things  extinguish any glimmer of interest I had :-(
>>I screamed and forced quit on Apples iPhoto when I tried it - the 
>>first thing it tried to do was move my photos aaaaaaaaaaah! I got 
>>rid  of the programme.
>>Frank
>
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Regards,

Dick