This very closely mirrors my feelings/use case. In fact, I'm increasingly not even keeping most of my RAW files if I still like the "developed" JPEG a week later. Before you become horrified, just consider that different people have different reasons for taking pictures, and don't have to be "serious" photographers to want to use darktable's excellent RAW developing suite. In my case, I just want to end up with a better final JPEG than the one I would be getting out of the camera. While this may be a very foreign use case for many people using this software, I'd like to think that it's a valid one. :)
On 2013-12-02 c...@cs.toronto.edu wrote: > Darktable is the best RAW developer on Linux today (in my opinion and > I looked at all of the ones that I could find, including commercial > options). If I had a choice between 'Darktable with DAM' and a program > that was just as good without DAM, I would be using the latter because > it is all that I need. But I don't. If I want the best RAW developer on > Linux, well, it comes with a bunch of DAM features that I don't want and > I get to work around them as best I can. > > I'd like to ask everyone to consider this use-case too. I think it > speaks well for Darktable that it is the best RAW developer for Linux, > not just 'a RAW developer with DAM'. But it does mean that there are > people who are just going to be interested in the RAW developer side of > it. > > (One of the many reasons that I'm not interested in Darktable's DAM is > that I have already migrated from one RAW developer to Darktable. I have > no particular guarantees that I won't be making a similar migration > in the future and accordingly I very much don't want all of my asset > management locked up inside a program that I may have to abandon in the > future. Today I do asset management through the filesystem because I am > pretty sure that anything will be able to deal with that, one way or > another. In fact the RAW developer that I migrated away from had its own > DAM, which I also didn't use. That turned out to be a really good thing > in the end.) > > - cks > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
