On Sat, Mar 24, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> > Jez, give it up. The concepts of non-destructive editing and the file
> > handling of Lightroom (or rather, the lack thereof) are just too innovative
> > for some people. I think LR is the greatest piece of photo processing
> > software ever invented, but I recognize that in other areas I am set in my
> > ways and have a similar attitude to that shown by Chuck and Jim.
>
> Lightroom is simply incredible now. The first two versions were far
> too slow for me, but now it's actually quite usable, and it screams on
> my new desktop computer. If I'm shooting an event with just the
> Olympus, I prefer to use Olympus Studio, though. My editor is Picture
> Window Pro, so for the nitpicky stuff, I live life there, but
> Lightroom makes turn-and-burn wonderful.
One reason I have enjoyed Sagelight is that it sort of works like LR
without any libraries or cataloguing. However, Sagelight is somewhat
destructive of ORF images when it converts them, sad to say.
In working through some E-410 raw files recently, I found Studio to be
much worse than I had recalled at highlight recovery. Pulling the
exposure to the left in the Studio converter interface darkens the whole
without actually restoring any detail in the highlight areas! My old
copy of LR-2 improves highlight detail perfectly.
When a Canaan body came into my life, I took the occasion to switch over
to sRGB. While I haven't really tested it formally, my impression is
that Studio is no longer superior to ACR/LR in rendering Olympus color
more accurately. Therefore I have no reason to keep using Studio and a
huge reason not to. With the settings Piers has recommended to
neutralize its cataloguing impulse, I'm really enjoying it.
Joel W.
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