> On Dec 30, 2019, at 10:19 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Dec 30, 2019, at 7:04 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Silly old me wrote: >> >>> And then IT happened. PR crashed. >> >> And yet again... >> >> Second time in less than a day vs. never in almost 10 years with >> Lightroom. Took half an hour's work with it as on the next start all >> changes made to that picture were gone. >> >> Sorry, ON1, but I don't shell out my shekels for beta software. Pity, >> really, it looked so promising at he beginning. > > It might be helpful if those of us who nearly bought On1 wrote them nice > letters telling them why we wanted to buy it, and why it didn’t work for us. >
I decided to write a letter, I didn’t put the effort into going into a lot of detail unless they really want it, but this is what I wrote. I really do hope that they do soon come up with something I can use to replace LR. My background is that I'm a software developer (mostly embedded systems and security) who has enjoyed photography since I was 12 (1973). In late 2007 I bought a DSLR and have been doing it seriously (intermittent pro jobs, but mostly hobby) since then. I started using Lightroom on a mac in the early days of lightroom and did every upgrade through LR6, but have so far refused to switch to their ransomware business model. I've been looking for a replacement since. The two at the top of my candidate list have been On1 and darktable. I'm on an online discussion group for people who shoot with Pentax gear and one of the members posted that he was switching from LR to PR and another member said "welcome to the club". PR2020 seemed nearly perfect, the one downside is that it won't run on Linux, I'd much rather ditch Apple as well since they won't build hardware I want that is remotely within my budget. I spent the past few days trying PR2020 on my travel machine (MBP laptop running high sierra). The migration from LR nearly worked, it did get the exif data, keywords and such, but only some of the editing information came over cleanly. Mind you, there are only a couple thousand images on my travel machine, rather than almost 700,000 on my "everything" lightroom catalog. At first I figured that I'd be fine just leaving that be, and only re-editing photos as the need arose. The first major issue that I ran into is easily editing a bunch of photos at a time. I tend to bracket my photos, want to sort out the under, nominal and over, and apply corrections to groups. Bump the exposure up and down a couple of stops, adjust highlights, or color balance. Easy to do in lightroom's grid view, rather awkward in PR. I finally got to the point that I decided I could still use LR for their digital asset management, and use PR2020 for "final polish" photo editing. There are several things that PR2020 does that LR doesn't. Two areas where I'm a bit disappointed in LRs performance are panoramas and HDR, primarily panoramas, in particular night time astro landscape panoramas. I don't have access to my astro-landscape pano raw frames, and it's tough to get clear skies in Oregon during December. I did some daytime and sunset panos to test that out, and I'm afraid that PR2020 completely fell over on the panoramas. I could send you links to jpegs if you want. In the end, I've decided that as much as I would like to switch away from LR6, PR2020 just isn't quite ready. As I said, I do this professionally, if you want I could send you more detailed information and suggestions. One big lack is beyond the migration tool, specific *written* instructions on how to do things in PR2020, and what you can't do, if you are used to doing them in LR, as well as how to do the cool things PR2020 will do that LR won't. And for what it's worth, the damn snowflakes on your website were so annoying that if I wasn't so desperate to switch from Lightroom, I would have given up entirely rather than put up with them. And, it turns out that after PR2020 crashed, twice, on my friend, he has decided not to make the switch either. -- 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.
