Well, I started out using Capture One. It was nice to process large batches. Lightroom didn't exist then. When Lightroom came out, I tried it a couple of times. I found it to be too much. It wanted to manage my files and organize things and build galleries and much more. Since I already had software that did all those things the way I wanted, the only part of Lightroom for me was just the raw conversion. The overhead of the file management made lightroom pretty sluggish for me. As Godfrey alluded to earlier, you need some horsepower. I was running it on a Windows XP box with a Pentium 4, 3.2 Ghz hyper-threaded processor with 2 gig of RAM. Still felt very pokey compared to other programs.
I later tried and liked Silkypix. That is what I am still using. So it, along with BreezeBrowser Pro for organizing and gallery building and XpressDigital Darkroom for all my wedding and sports online ordering systems, Lightroom just didn't fit. If you have nothing right now for any of it, Lightroom is a more complete package than the other Raw converters - doing much more than just the Raw conversion. It is certainly worth trying, along with Silkypix, Capture One, Bibble and others. Most of them give you a free trial to see what works best for you. I can say that all of them work better than the Pentax Software - especially for larger batches. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 8:33:15 PM, you wrote: F> I like Capture One, for it's simplicity and great workflow. I also F> feel that I get great high ISO shots (ISO 1600) with no effort with F> it. F> For anything not high ISO I remember liking Silkypix, it has precanned F> looks that are quick and nice to work with, plus great control. F> I didn't try Lightroom which seems to be popular here. F> On 4/1/09, Nick Wright <[email protected]> wrote: >> Picasa for the Mac has a few bugs. But I'll add that to my list of >> things to play with. >> >> Does anyone here use RAW Developer? >> >> I've been playing with the demo a bit, and so far I really like it. >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Scott Loveless <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Nick Wright <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Does anyone recommend a program that does not cost $300? >> > >> > I do. Picasa. It's free. Download it from Google. Or maybe >> > Cinepaint if you're running a Mac or Linux. >> > >> > -- >> > Scott Loveless >> > Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 >> > 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. >> > >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ~Nick David Wright >> http://www.nickdavidwright.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. >> -- 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.
