[...] > > Thanks, Christine. I'm convinced about Lightroom. [It's a bit pricey > for me though. Almost double what I paid for my used *ist DS -- with > which, by the way, I am VERY happy.] And it is more the file management > than the editing capability that I'm looking for. > > I like hearing a professional photographer saying what you said about > "taking good pictures in-camera." I think I can learn how to do that. I > have no interest in learning how to edit images.
there are some things which you will have to be able to do from time to time. For instance, if you have a dustmark on your sensor which affects the picture you will need to be able to clone it out. You will also need to make adjustments to contrast and tone otherwise the raw file straight from the camera is rather drab, to say the least. Levelling horizons is also often a necessity. LR makes all of these things easy. In the film days I almost always shot slides, so I was used to framing and exposing with the inflexibility of slides in mind. However, you can 'take good pictures in camera' with a view to cropping later, so it will probably be useful to you to know how to do this in LR too (also very easy). B -- 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.
