Mitch Ives
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Promise Pegasus 2… with TB2… 800-900 in throughput…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Excellent thoughts Oliver.
I do like what we just got… some small things that are huge for some of us. Is it enough… I guess that’s a subjective thing.
The “refinement” thing is a good point. As someone else pointed out, it does seem that Apple lost a lot of time changing the whole file structure thing. Someone else’s theory that they initially designed it the way that made sense and then realized that they needed to change it to facilitate group workflows makes as much sense as anything I’ve heard.
I’m hoping that all the new features are waiting on the new OS. If not, then you’re refinement theory could be spot on…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Not sure where you got the info that you’re basing your theory on, but I certainly hope you’re right on all accounts…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Bill Davis] “Well, there’s a LOT to like about Lightroom. But there are dificiencies as well. It excels at the basic initial tasks of importing, sorting and rating photos to pick selects from large groupings. Then it has a basic suite of touch up tools to let you quickly enhance and repair your selected raw files.
But it’s internal semi round trip link to Photoshop (the return file shows up as a separate tiff alongside the unretouched original) is a good indication that Adobe did not try to make it anywhere near a full fledged photo editor.
It also sports a good bit of what I think of as feature creep, with stuff like a slide show generator and “order me a photo album” crap that I just ignore.
That said, it’s fast, great at what it does and not overly complex once you get beyond figuring out whether and when to split off sub catalogs.
What could send me to Photos is if Apple figures out a clever way to let me not just retouch and organize my stills, but makes them accessible directly via the FCP X media browser across all my apple devices.
Right now, Lightroom work is a separate operation and when it’s done I’m plopping photos to the desktop and importing them to X as a totally separate operation. If I miss one, it’s launch Lightroom again and go through the whole dance over.
I suspect Apple has a big opportunity to improve that workflow.
We’ll see.”
All good info, thanks Bill. I also agree that Apple has a huge opportunity here if they see it?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Steve Martin released the minute Apple did:
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Bill Davis] “You can still purchase and own Lightroom as a standalone.
It’s all of $79.”
This is good news Bill. I’m in. I’ll buy LR today.
Adobe called yesterday and gave me the full court press on CC. I literally couldn’t get off the phone. He mentioned the $10/month for PS and Lightroom. Funny he never mentioned buying it for $79.
I think you’re right, once people get used to LR, why would they switch to Photos, unless it’s spectacular? I hope it is, but I won’d hold my breath.
As for the cloud, I want to be in charge of when I use it. I don’t want Apple to force me to use it. This is still America right? I get to choose?
I’m using Pixelmator too. I think I got that idea from you.
I’m with you on the ownership versus renting. Renting is like being on crack. How do you ever get off?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Brent Cook] “Was this necessary? You replied to my same comment respectfully and then this? I’ve looked at 5 or 6 other sources (first page of google search and what I would not consider rumor sights) and it is not mentioned in any of them yet you claim it’s mentioned everywhere. Maybe google works differently for each of us.”
Wasn’t clear. I was responding to a series of posts questioning my statement. FWIW, it was in the first four I read. Could be a case of everybody quoting each other though, I suppose.
As for Goggle working differently… wouldn’t surprise me… 😉
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Robert Gilman] “My research suggest that techcrunch got that meme going. They now say at the bottom of https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/27/apple-to-cease-development-of-aperture-and... that:
“Article updated to clarify that there is no official workflow for migrating to Lightroom.””
That part never made sense, but it’s still reported everywhere else. To me it’s a red-herring.
The real story is that EVERYONE is saying that it’ll be no replacement for Aperture for some time. Sound familiar? Same process as FCPX, Pages, Numbers, Keynote. So, whether Apple works with Adobe or not, we’ll all be forced into an Adobe subscription until Apple fills in the missing features. And even then, if it requires using the cloud, then some people will be forced to stay with Adobe.
If I were a cynic, I’d say Photos is designed to force us into larger storage, paid iCloud subscriptions… but then that would be silly, huh?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Ronny Courtens] “Some more details here:
https://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2014/6/27/aperture-dead-long-live-photo...”
Nice article… seems to support my contention about it not being an Aperture replacement for some time.
I read the comments… interesting how everybody said “I don’t want to be forced to store my photos in the cloud”. Apple might want to make Photos work without jamming the cloud down our throats… just a thought.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Brent Cook] “I don’t see this mentioned anywhere else and I’m sure if it were included in Apple’s statement it would be mentioned everywhere. I’d be surprised if Apple helped users switch to an Adobe product, especially if their intent is to have this Photos app eventually be used by professionals”
Jeez, is anybody doing any research? Forget the rumor sites if you want. When it appears on MacNN then it came from Apple. They are real damned careful about what they print…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill