Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/16

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Subject: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat Aug 16 21:21:39 2008

No one who ever works with raw files ever looks back.
I scan in raw mode when ever I can even which is almost as nice. But not
quite in the same league. I think Raw is a reason to do digital.
THE reason perhaps; I'm sure in many a persons mind.



mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:00:23 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?
> 
> Frank,
> 
> I felt the same way about RAW files until I purchased an Oly E-510 a few
> months ago.  After reading the comments of M8 owners, I decided to give RAW
> a trial run, and I find that the resulting images, to my eyes, are much
> better. Don't rule it out.  Your next camera purchase might enable you to
> evaluate the difference.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 10:49 PM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?
> 
> 
>> PS.. I do not have RAW files.  I do not have a camera capable of making
>> RAW
>> files.  No justification that I can see..... for my needs.
>> 
>> And NO to purchasing 2 programs... remember, some of us are amateurs and
>> can
>> not write off $1,000 of SW......
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> red735i@earthlink.net
>> 
>> 
>> You guys don't get it!  It's not either/or.  It's Lightroom AND
>> PSCS3.  I couldn't do without either of them.  LR is not just about
>> processing hundreds of files.  It's a non-destructive way of working
>> on RAW files and saving the RAW files with adjustments until you are
>> ready to export them for a particular use.  Then you can open them in
>> PSCS3 and do your final sharpening and adjusting with layers or
>> whatever for that one use.  Your original RAW file is never touched.
>> 
>> Lightroom was made to work WITH Photoshop.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Replies: Reply from s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan dimitrov) ([Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?)
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