Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/21

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] LR question
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu Aug 21 23:47:45 2008
References: <20080821230013.B87279DC@resin17.mta.everyone.net>

LR 1 can do all the things you mention except the very last one. Also,  
I would strongly advise against converting your RAW files to JPG. It  
will make them essentially unusable for any further serious work. Disk  
space is dirt cheap these days. What you are thinking of doing amounts  
to having drugstore prints made, and then throwing away the negatives.

I know that you say you want to keep the best ones as RAW files, but  
the thing is, in 5 or 10 years you may consider a picture that today  
is a "loser" very important for whatever reason. I am discovering that  
right now, as I am in the final stages of copying all my film scans  
going back to the 90s onto a dedicated HD and importing them into LR.

Just as I have every negative I shot since 1985 (when I took up  
photography in a serious way), I also have every RAW file I have shot  
since I went digital in 2004.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
http://www.nathanfoto.com

Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog



On Aug 22, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Alastair Firkin wrote:

> I don't think LR 1. will do this, but will the 2.0 upgrade? I want  
> to import all my images as RAW files. I want to sort them, label  
> them keyword and adjust them, then I want to delete the real  
> rejects, covert the good but not great to JPG and keep the keepers  
> as RAW, and I want to convert the original filed file from the RAW  
> to jpg to save space, not export and reimport with new time/date  
> problems
>
> Cheers
>
> Alastair
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information


Replies: Reply from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] LR question)
In reply to: Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] LR question)