[Leica] Re: Aperture and Lightroom on a Mac

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:07 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

>
> "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> writes:
>
>> I just gave Aperture a try on my iMac G5 (1.8 GHz - 1.5 GB RAM)) and
>> discovered two things:  Aperture doesn't do DNG and at least one
>> function - straightening - is so slow as to be unusable.  I didn't
>> explore beyond that. *Two* strikes and they're out, in this case.  I
>> won't be buying Aperture.
>>
>> The final beta version of Lightroom was also sluggish on this iMac,
>> but faster than Aperture.  I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone
>> whose has the released version of Lightroom and can compare it's  
>> speed
>> with that of the last beta version.
>
>
> The final release has not actually been released. It is only available
> as a pre-order. The last beta is the last release as of now.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave


If you have a Mac, a lot of preliminary work, straightening,  
rotation, etc. can be done using the amazing shareware program  
GraphicConverter (www.lemkesoft.com). It is the Swiss Army knife of  
image processing programs and is updated regularly. A copy probably  
came free with your Mac.

Larry Z