What rips me is that Adobe bought up and killed the best RAW converter out
there. RawShooter was simply amazing. Fast? I've encountered nothing
faster. The only way to make Lightroom usable is with a flamethrower
computer with gobs of ram. It is an absolute pig otherwise.
I have some hopes that RawTherapee will improve in performance. I really
hope so because the program actually is quite decent, but needs another
generation or two of cleanup.
Capture One gives amazingly good results with Olympus files. One thing ACR
(and every Adobe variant) suffers with is the ability to get decent colors
from Olympus files when the photograph was taken in mixed light. Both
Capture One and the Olympus Studio/Master converters are able to get mixed
light colors correct. This is absolutely a critical issue with the E-3, but
is a problem with other bodies as well. The E-3 and Lightroom are NOT a good
match at all for portraiture/wedding photography. Profiles only get you
close most of the time, but when it fails it fails big time. Capture One,
in particular tends to do something really nice in that it warms the
backgrounds while maintaining proper skintones. To get the same backgrounds
in Lightroom the skintones turn horrid. Might as well try and do portraiture
with expired Fujichrome Velvia.
Olympus Studio2 is actually very decent. It's a slug in the speed department
and I'd prefer to have the thumbnails reflect the temporary edits like
Lightroom does, but the program has been unfairly lampooned. The one thing
I'd like it to do that it doesn't is live directly updating like Photo
Mechanic does. There really isn't much that Studio2 doesn't do except
support non-Olympus RAW files.
Digital Asset Management is still a horribly weak spot. I'd say that we're
still two years away from having a decent DAM system available, but
honestly, we've been saying that for at least 20 years when we were
hotrodding DBASE and Paradox before Borland bought them and ruined the
software.
AG
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