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Re: [OM] A.I. Gigapixel Test -Bill

Subject: Re: [OM] A.I. Gigapixel Test -Bill
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 10:15:35 -0700
> From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> On 9/15/2018 11:52 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>> . . .
>> you MUST use Acrobat Reader to fill in most "open" PDF forms you download.
> 
> It's free, it works. That's bad how?

It sorta works. Some of the time. If you let it constantly update itself every 
few weeks. If you don't need to do something that worked in the last version 
that Adobe has meanwhile pulled out.

It also brings my computer to a screeching halt. If Acrobat Reader is running, 
I can't have a photo editor or 123,456 web browser tabs open. Unlike Preview, 
PDFPen, and a host of other programs that are compliant with the PDF "standard" 
that Adobe published, then violated.

I vastly prefer filling out PDF forms using Preview. It's small and 
lightweight. Other programs don't even notice it's running. But it won't show 
PDF forms newer than those created by Acrobat 11.

> A different perspective: A sumo wrestler is bloated, compared to normal 
> people, baseball players, soccer players, etc. 
> So too are football defensive linemen. And yet, if you want those jobs done, 
> you need the 600 lb. gorilla*

Awesome! I know you need your gorilla, and I'm not trying to take it away from 
you. What I (and dare I say, most photographers) need is more like a bonobo, 
though. Love me and do enough that I can get my (less-demanding) job done 
quickly and with minimum computing resources.

The last time I used PS/LR, it did indeed feel like a gorilla was sitting on my 
computer. To make it work, I had to quit ALL the other apps I generally keep 
running. I prefer someone who plays well with others to a gorilla who comes in 
and takes over, Trumping everything else.

>> I drive (and make fuel for) diesel engines.
> 
> My diesel won't work with your fuel.

Bet it would! Unless you're driving something older than 1996, *all* diesel 
vehicles meet the European fuel standards that require compatibility with 
biofuels. (US automakers got their congressional lackeys to defeat the mandate, 
but they didn't want to set up a separate manufacturing line to save ~$100 on 
their domestic vehicles, nor give up the ability to export to Europe, so they 
voluntarily complied after spending millions to defeat the mandate.)

>> You can even create your own lens profiles for ON1, using open-source 
>> software, so easily-corrected flaws like CA, vignetting, and areal 
>> distortion are automagically corrected. Lightroom doesn't do that.
> 
> Well, as I say above, you don't know much about the products you dis. LR does 
> indeed do that. In the case of 4/3 and 
> ?4/3, it's just the same correction that Oly and Panny cameras and Raw 
> conversion software apply.

Yea, sorry for not being clearer. You can create your own lens profiles *for 
lenses that don't have them.* Like my legacy OM glass. Or any other lens that 
doesn't have electronic communication of lens data, like mirrors or Lensbabies 
or the new fast manual offerings for Micro Four Thirds like Mitakons and 
Voitlanders.

Lightroom and Photoshop are not on the list of primarily open-source image 
editors that LensFun creates profiles for. So you're right: I don't have 
first-hand knowledge of it not working with LR/PS. I just don't know how to 
create and use a profile for a legacy lens that LR/PS will use. If you know 
otherwise, let me know!

> In the case of computers and photo tools, my motto is "What Works!"

You're probably an INTJ. Me too. It's just that "what works" for each of us is 
different. Sorry you took it as a personal attack. I wasn't trying to change 
you... as if that were possible... :-)

Jan

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