Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/22

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Subject: [Leica] LR4 Beta problem
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:57:18 -0800
References: <p06240807cb422bfe0c27@192.168.1.104> <CAF8hL-FfBEB+W8XY3UKOVvf8a5dwsjFDKDMgaqv7h5rO4TzJTA@mail.gmail.com> <p06240808cb42417413c1@192.168.1.104>

Correct: under LR3 and previous, "exposure" adds light to the entire image,
"brightness" moves the midpoint.

More or less.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> I'm NOT using it. I'm just experimenting with its new features in order to
> understand them, especially to understand them well enough to know whether
> I will want to upgrade. The crawling behavior of those sliders prevents
> understanding.
>
> Incidentally, there appears to be a contradiction in LR3. The exposure
> slider ostensibly correlates with a section called "exposure" in the
> histogram. But I find that it affects exposure over the entire histogram
> range, whereas the brightness slider principally affects
> exposure/brightness in the mid range.
>
> Herb
>
>
>
>  Herbert, may I suggest that you use LR3 if you are not already using it?
>> 3.6 is a stable release and works well. LR4 will probably not come out for
>> at least another 4-6 months. Let the other trailblazers find the bugs :-)
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
>>
>>  > I'm running LR4 on an iMac whose OS is Snow Leopard. While most sliders
>>  > work fine, the four critical ones: shadows, hilights, etc. are so
>> sticky
>>  > that they are almost useless if the exercise is to look at the picture
>> or
>>  > the histogram and watch what they do.
>>  >
>>  > Is this the behavior of the first release, or is something funny going
>> on
>>  > in my machine? I've checked the amount of free memory in Activity
>> Monitor,
>>  > and it is certainly adequate: mucho gigabytes.
>>  > --
>>  > Herbert Kanner
>>  > kanner at acm.org
>>  > 650-326-8204
>>  >
>>  > Question authority and the authorities will question you.
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