> > Anyway, here's a > > better one. You need a steamhammer for your work which > involves driving > > enormous piles into the ground. You also occasionally need > to tap a tack > > into a piece of wood. You complain because the steam > piledriver is no good > > at tapping little tacks into wood. > > That's still wrong: Lightroom isn't anything as crude as a > piledriver. > No one would reasonably expect to be able to use a piledriver for > tapping little tacks. A reasonable photographer *would* like > to be able > to use a tool whose desirable features are raw conversion and image > optimization for... just raw conversion and image optimization.
These are just analogies, they're not meant to be taken literally. You don't want me to get all literal all yo ass now, do you? The point I'm obviously struggling to make is that the right tool for one job is not necessarily the right tool for some other job, however similar they seem. It's largely a matter of scale - a spreadsheet versus SAP for doing accounts perhaps. If every software development organisation tried to please everyone all the time, no software would ever get released, and if it did it would please nobody - anybody with experience in software development should know that. Lightroom was designed in consultation with an awful lot of professional photographers to do a particular job. As far as I can see it would make a good case study in how to develop software. But like any other project it had a scope - limits on what it would and wouldn't do. They've issued it to great acclaim, and made changes in response to market use and further experience. No doubt they will continue to do so, adding useful functions, which might include what you want, but complaining about it not being able to do something that it has never claimed to do and was apparently not designed to do is an exercise in futility. Bob -- 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.
