S:
Thanks for posting the link. This looks very interesting, just
finished downloading it.
Regards the product name:
"Lightroom" is a perfect allusion to the photographic darkroom.
"Shadowland" is cool but means nothing photographically. Can't say
I'm happier one way or the other ... what do I care what the
application is named as long as it does what I want ... but I
understand Adobe's choice.
Regards bashing and comparing Aperture to Lightroom:
I'm not interested in bashing Aperture or Apple, or participating in
another stupid round of idiotic computer geeky religious wars.
I cannot run Aperture on any of the systems that I own. I don't like
the fact that it is fundamentally unusable to me because it cannot
process RAW files from either of the cameras I'm using the most these
days (Pentax DS and Panasonic LX1). These and several other issues
involved in a first version release have pretty much eliminated any
serious interest in it on my part at this time.
But the single thing that convinces me from the start I am more
interested in Lightroom is encapsulated in this section from Michael
Reichman's comments:
"Aperture is designed around a unitary database. In other words, it
only knows about and can process and index files that lie within it.
This has some theoretical advantages, but also a great many
limitations from the user's point of view. For example, an Aperture
database can only be as large as one hard drive. Files located on
other drives can not be part of an Aperture library. True, one can
have multiple libraries, but then one can not sort, catalog, transfer
and otherwise work with files between libraries."
This is a design that I find clumsy. I want to be able to work with
my photographs stored were I want them to be, in a system that is
logical/efficient to me, not necessarily to a piece of software. If
that desire means slightly less than theoretical optimum efficiency
to the application, well, so be it. ;-)
Godfrey
On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote:
Adobe released beta version of Lightroom - application dedicated
for digital
photography workflow. Contrary to similar Apple's Application -
Aperture -
it will accept much more varieties of RAW files including Pentax
PEFs (just
like Camera Raw does), has much lower (reasonable) system
requirements and
will work (soon) on Windows platform. Mac OSX version is free for
download
here:
http://labs.macromedia.com/technologies/lightroom/
Michael Reichmann has already done preview of it:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/software/lightroom1.shtml
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Balance is the ultimate good...
Best Regards
Sylwek
