Bob W wrote:
> Anyway, here's a
better one. You need a steamhammer for your work which
involves driving
enormous piles into the ground. You also occasionally need
to tap a tack
into a piece of wood. You complain because the steam
piledriver is no good
at tapping little tacks into wood.
That's still wrong: Lightroom isn't anything as crude as a
piledriver.
No one would reasonably expect to be able to use a piledriver for
tapping little tacks. A reasonable photographer *would* like
to be able
to use a tool whose desirable features are raw conversion and image
optimization for... just raw conversion and image optimization.
These are just analogies, they're not meant to be taken literally. You don't
want me to get all literal all yo ass now, do you? The point I'm obviously
struggling to make is that the right tool for one job is not necessarily the
right tool for some other job, however similar they seem. It's largely a
matter of scale - a spreadsheet versus SAP for doing accounts perhaps. If
every software development organisation tried to please everyone all the
time, no software would ever get released, and if it did it would please
nobody - anybody with experience in software development should know that.
Lightroom was designed in consultation with an awful lot of professional
photographers to do a particular job. As far as I can see it would make a
good case study in how to develop software. But like any other project it
had a scope - limits on what it would and wouldn't do. They've issued it to
great acclaim, and made changes in response to market use and further
experience. No doubt they will continue to do so, adding useful functions,
which might include what you want, but complaining about it not being able
to do something that it has never claimed to do and was apparently not
designed to do is an exercise in futility.
Pointing out that software can't do something which it easily *could*
do, and is desired by some users, is not an exercise in futility. It is,
in fact, how good, responsive software developers improve their product.
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
PDML@pdml.net
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
