Used LightZone for about eight months before getting totally fed up. :-( This piece of software has become more and more bloated and sludgy for each version. In its current incarnation, for example, it uses more than 3 times as long as do Adobe Bridge to generate thumbnails from a given folder of K10D files. It is also very slow to work with, and has the occasional full-scale crash, without , afaik, any reproducable cause.
It touts Vista compatibility, but runs slower on 64-bit Vista than on 32-bit XP, despite having 70% more allocated RAM. No idea how it performs on Mac/linux. It does not get the K20D raw files right; they look like cross-processed C41 film negatives. It mashes up the EXIF of both *istD and K10D raw files. Camera model, for example, is lost. All together, I would say that LightZone is a very good idea destroyed by a mediocre implementation. The zonal approach to editing brightness is quite clever, and so is the ability to use masks and layers in a raw file converter, but all the waiting for every operation is a PITA. :-( Jostein 2008/8/22 Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subash wrote: >> As far as I am concerned, what I need is: >> >> * display quickly any file type (including RAW) >> * thumbnails / image / metadata / folder browsing panes that can be >> moved around and hidden >> * full exif and XMP tags management / search support >> * slideshow / fullscreen >> * create contact sheets (I know, this looks like a gadget, but it >> comes in very handy) >> * right-click on an image to open it in the raw converter / image >> editor >> * Color Managed >> >> </quote> >> >> you can do all of that from inside digikam... except the create >> contact sheets bit :-)) > > You might have a look at Lightzone. It's a Java application available > for Windows, Mac and Linux. It's never been Free, but the Linux beta > was free for quite a while. They charge for it now. There is a trial > period. I use it. It's nice. Kinda like Lightroom, but with some > interesting zone processing functions. > > -- > Scott Loveless > New Cumberland, PA > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > > -- > 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. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- 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.
