I have used LE version for quite some time - 2 years or so. I didn't want to wait so I looked at Silkypix and LightRoom beta.
The LightRoom product looked very good. My issues with it were speed (Windows version, 3ghz HT Intel, 1 gb ram), and speed (many others on the forums were complaining of real speed issues) and then trying to be an all inclusive product that duplicated some of my other tools - among which is my lab connection/web ordering/invoice tracking system. So it did more than I wanted it to do. The speed issues revolved around the area of needing to do lots of prep work before I could really use the tool. So if I had it load a directory of images and walked away for about 20 minutes, it would be ready to run and be reasonable on speed. But each shutdown and start up would consume 10-20 minutes before ready to run well. None of my other tools are such resource hogs. So, while the product is very nice and very capable, the speed issue is just not tolerable. Coupled with that, I have to shoot DNG (for my weddings that is too big a cost in card space) or convert them with Pentax browser. Again, a time constraint. When LightRoom is released, I'll probably take one more look at it to see if they have improved the performance to a tolerable level. In the meantime, I ended up buying Silkypix - the interface is not quite to my liking, but it does a credible job so far. I was waiting on Bibble, but they didn't have anything out and no word as to when. Now I hear that they have support for the K10D, so that is another option to consider. -- Bruce Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 12:05:22 PM, you wrote: JB> Phase One just told me that the support for the K10D RAW files won't come JB> until April 2007 - LE version 3.7.7 JB> What do you guys do? JB> Jens Bladt JB> -- JB> No virus found in this outgoing message. JB> Checked by AVG Free Edition. JB> Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.9/650 - Release Date: 01/24/2007 JB> 16:06 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
