Thanks Godders. I'm just curious. I'll probably go to Lightroom eventually. It seems more practical than constant PhotoShop updates. However, after four years of use, I am quite wedded to the ACR interface. Thanks to Pentax support of DNG, I haven't had to make a move yet. The original ACR still works fine, although it's not well suited to batch processing. That means a lot of extra work for event shooting. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Best price I find on Lightroom is only about $50 more than Aperture. > That's not a huge difference really. I wouldn't use that to determine > which of these image processing/management environments is preferable. > > One of my ongoing concerns with Aperture is that the RAW processing > engine is integrated into the OS core libraries. It slows down > delivery of new camera support because the updates either have to wait > for an OS update or a separate project team has to be engaged to > produce, test and deliver it. There are good things about this kind of > integration too ... which the folks at Apple consider to be valuable > to a large majority of their customer base, otherwise they wouldn't > have gone this way ... but they're not the sort of things that make > much difference to my uses. > > For those cameras which Aperture 2 supports, it seems to be a good > environment for management and editing. I have an eval copy of A2 that > I have experimented with just a little bit and am considering going to > a few hours workshop on it next week, just to learn a bit more. > > However, I don't see myself going to Aperture. At the present time, I > find its toolset a bit more difficult for me to get my head around, it > requires a hefty bit of processing power in the graphics adapter (for > which I'd need to buy an update for best performance) and is much more > fluid in performance on the Intel DP and QP generation systems than on > the PowerPC single and dual processor systems. > > Lightroom does a very good job for me, I'm more concerned with > producing work than with nuances of the tool suite at this point. > > Godfrey > > > On Mar 21, 2008, at 8:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Apple isn't exactly setting the world on fire with timely updates, > > are they? They're still working on the *ist series. BTW, is Aperture > > of any use? It's less expensive than Lightroom, I believe. Of > > course, a lack of timely updates diminishes its value. > > Paul > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Update for Mac OS X users to cover a few more cameras' RAW format > >> files in iPhoto and Aperture is available at > >> > >> > <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/digitalcamerara > >> wcompatibilityupdate20.html > >>> > >> > >> or > >> > >> http://tinyurl.com/ysgc6g > >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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