On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/10/2010 2:07 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> I don't see it that way. I see it as using the tools given what they >> can do and what I need to get done, without the presumption that the >> tools are somehow deficient. > > I humbly disagree again, Godfrey. I never meant that LR as it is now was > deficient. I even indicated mere lack of _convenience_ feature. > > To give you a simple example, the fact that my car does not have all wheel > drive does not make it deficient, but it also means that I have be careful > when choosing if and when I might go off-road. And having such a car and > planning to have the next one with all wheel drive is not presumptuous in > any way.
The fact that you mentioned what I wrote about as a 'work around' solution implies the presumption that you felt there to be a deficiency. Your analogy isn't particularly apt in the way you put it. How to make it more apt: The fact that your car isn't equipped with four wheel drive doesn't mean you can't drive it off-road. It means that it will not have the traction of a four wheel drive equipped vehicle in some circumstances, and that when you drive it off road you have to be aware of that fact and adjust your driving appropriately. This is not a lack of a 'convenience feature' or a work around, it's the lack of a particular capability which requires that you act differently when presented with a situation that might utilize that capability effectively. That is an analogous situation to the fact that Lightroom does not include the ability to interact with multiple independent database files simultaneously: when faced with the notion of working with original file repositories of a larger scope than might be sensible to have in a single database all the time, you need to work differently compared to how you might work if LR supported managing multiple database files simultaneously. To debate the point further is to natter on into semantics, not photography ... ;-) Suffice it to say Lightroom doesn't have this capability at present and adjust how you work with it to suit what it does do. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
