> The Camera Raw 2 to 3 change was a major update, as Camera Raw 3 has > huge changes in it that are in sync with new back-end services > available only in CS2 and Bridge. They kept compatibility for version > 3.x in the Basic operation mode for Photoshop Elements, which doesn't > support any of Camera Raw's feature set beyond the Adjust and Detail > tabs. > > Adding new cameras to the Camera Raw 2.x plugin would mean > maintaining a second parallel development effort, which would be too > costly. However, you can process the DNG files output from the > combines Camera Raw and DNG Converter v3.x package with Camera Raw > v2.4, so the upgrade path is there for you, without cost.
They might have without too much trouble IMO but as long as they provide a converter for all those formats not supported by ACR before 3 to DNG so they can be imported with ACR is indeed suffcient even if not ideal. It works, you're right. It's OK. > > ... What wanna have for this > > price is the certainty an expensive software like PS will work with > > next OS. ... > > Unfortunately, nothing can be guaranteed as no vendor can know for > sure what will happen with future versions of an OS, any OS. The > depth and extent to which fixes and patching can be effective is > variable. > > > Imagine myself 6 months ago: I'm a "normal" user which means I'm not > > playing with beta from next OSes blabla, I buy PS CS2 and then Vista > > comes and I realize it is not compatible (or has quite restricted > > capabilities) when run under Vista. Basicaly I'm f*****, I'm not? > > If you want to upgrade from XP to Vista, well, what for? Why would > you want to upgrade until you know what you're going to get from it? > > Using software to do your work often means balancing the cost of new, > desirable features against established reliability of a working > system. You pay for the desirable new things as you accept them, the > price should always include the cost of whatever other side effects > are created. Sure and my questions and interrogations even of they might seem annoying and stubborn (thinking about William here, no offence meant, Will) is part of the work I need to do before making any decision. Photography is nothing more than a hobby an d a K10D hasn't been easy to pay and I earn nothing from my photography which means I'm must be very confident I'll make the best choice possible for my situation. > > BTW Godfrey since you seem to be pretty much used to Adobe softwares, > > do you think Adobe supports all their softwares the same way? I mean, > > is PSE well supported? I'm sure I could be satisfied with PSE * if > > they support it as what Adobe brand would lead me to beleive they > > would*. I don't ask the same support as PS CS, of course, you pay for > > that too. > > I haven't used the full suite of Adobe products, but I've gotten the > same level of excellent support when using Acrobat 8 Standard that I > get for Photoshop CS2. I don't belong to or purchase any of their > more dedicated professional support programs. Useful comment. > Of course, it might be that they have 10 support people to handle > 100,000 PS CS2 users and 10 support people to handle 600,000 PSE > users, and thus support practices for the lower priced product are > more tuned to 1-to-Many support tools, which might not give quite the > same "warm fuzzies" of the more expensive products. I'd consider that > normal for low cost, high volume products vs higher cost, lower > volume products. Fair enough. I'd just don't want anyone (Adobe or any other) to sell me a product which is low cost because support is essentially absent. > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- *ist-D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
