Hi Ken,
Wordstar and Wordperfect are still among my memories of the past. Never had
a need for dBase. Lotus 1-2-3 handled my spread sheet needs before Excel
came along.
I agree, things come and go very rapidly these days, but the E-1 just
soldiers on.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Sagelight editor
>> I'm not sure I'd agree that it's teetering on the brink. If it is, it's
>> because of Lightroom.
>
> That's what I was referring to. It's getting to the point, if not well
> past the point where it is very very hard to justify the cost of
> Photoshop. Since Lightroom (or equivalent) is doing the brunt of our
> work, a fancy editor is used for only those things which aren't
> Lightroom friendly. But it is getting to be very little that Lightroom
> isn't able to do. What you can't do in Lightroom, you can do in a $100
> editor.
>
> The premise, though, is that the very presence of Lightroom has turned
> Photoshop into an overpriced, pudgy beast of a program that requires a
> very expensive computer to even run well. With the cost of
> upgrade--especially now with the enforced "thou shalt upgrade EVERY
> time, no matter what" policy, people are seriously starting to
> consider not even bothering ever upgrading Photoshop again.
>
> As we've seen over and over again, it doesn't take much for the
> leading product in a category to dive in a hurry. Ten years ago,
> nobody expected Palm to cease to exist. Five years ago Crackberrys
> ruled the world. Some of us remember Wordstar, Wordperfect and DBase+.
> How about Sears and GM? Hewlett-Packard, anyone? It wasn't long ago
> that Dubai was the place to be.
>
> KODAK.
>
> Eventually, everything will go the way of the Roman Empire. It's just
> a matter of time. Sometimes it ends because of the obesity of age,
> sometimes it ends because of some upstart that is able to ride a new
> operating metaphor into the limelight. Sometimes the knowledge of how
> to make concrete disappears for a couple thousand years.
>
>
>> Candace, Chuck, and I'd guess others find four up comparisons of images
>> really important. I can surely see that if I
>> were doing portraiture and shooting lots of near duplicates.
>
> Oh, being able to have two or four up comparison is a gold feature. I
> use this all the time for exactly what you are talking about. It's a
> huge time saver.
>
> AG
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