Been lurking for over a year! I agree about the new software, it pretty much sucks, but I do like Silkypix though, as do many others (there's no accounting for taste is there?!). It took me a while to see past the very different interface, but I persevered and I feel I was rewarded! When we meet (if/when you make it across) I will run over some of my likes about it and you can shoot me down!
I agree that if you have developed a profile with ACR, it's a neck and neck situation. I like and use Bridge with SP, and now iView as well. Having invested many hundreds of hours flying with PS, for not only photography but graphics as well, I can't find anything else for that, so Adobe rules 95% for me anyway, but I cannot seem to feel enthusiastic about Lightroom. Richard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: 11 August 2006 19:04 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: K110D - Why bother? On Aug 11, 2006, at 4:38 AM, Richard Day wrote: > Hi Godders, hi Cotty! Heya Richard! Welcome to PDMHell! Didn't realize you were lurking here. :-) > The new software does actually have some advances over the previous > issues. > The new Photo Lab raw converter does have additional features hidden > in the View menu for more options, i.e. lens correction, noise > reduction, CA and vignetting, etc., functionallity seems to lay > between the full Silkypix and the free version. > > The converted DNG is uncompressed so has no file size advantage over > the PEF's, however you can re-run the Adobe converter on the Pentax > made DNG's and losslesly compress them to save space. > ... > What is bizarre is that Pentax browser may be able to convert to DNG, > but it doesn't display them! How daft is that? This description does not make me feel any better about Pentax' supplied software. Seems a waste of my time. I'll stick with Photoshop+Bridge+Camera Raw, or Lightroom, or Iridient's RAW Developer. I didn't like working with Silkypix very much based on their evaluation version, and haven't seen that anything Pentax supplied so far was worth wasting my disk space on. I've already calibrated ACR to my own preferences so what the heck... ? Godfrey > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
