No updates for 1.4.1 anymore? Why not?

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Hi,

I see the same thing happen again.

I have bought LR 1.* and running 1.4.1 now. Well since the time Beta 2.' was announcd there has not been ANY improvement for my version. There are bugs in that version (that's ok, the prgm is in its beginning state), but I CANNOT understand there are NO bugfixing vesrions until V2 is on the road.

I was ready to quit with LR because of that, but Victoria told me that in the 2.' release my main problem (wrong colors) should be solved. That is why I stick to LR, NOT for Adobe, but thanks to Victoria.

And what if V2.' does do not what I hope?
Blame Victoria (No would never do that).
Blame Adobe? (what for?)
Switch to NX2 permanently seems the option.
 
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Hold that thought Willem.... I really don't think you'll be disappointed with v2.' colours.

1.4.1 update was only a few months ago, and the updates have usually been 3-4 months apart at least.
 
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I would say Nikon had the support for the D7'' in NX2 before the release, but there again it would only be a quick update..........
 
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wblink said:
Switch to NX2 permanently seems the option.
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From some of the postings I have read at Nikonians.org, its seems that not everybody is happy with CNX2. Beware that the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.

--Ken
 
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Replytoken said:
From some of the postings I have read at Nikonians.org, its seems that not everybody is happy with CNX2. Beware that the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.

--Ken
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Yeah, why do think I am here? I gave NX2 an honest good faith effort. It just does not work for event photographers or people who take more than one picture in a sitting.
 
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brentj said:
Yeah, why do think I am here? I gave NX2 an honest good faith effort. It just does not work for event photographers or people who take more than one picture in a sitting.
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For the life of me, I am still trying to understand the love of CNX 1.3. Image by image, I can understand that people like the Nikon rendition of a raw image. But, does this translate into a bulk processing workflow? I started this thread that you might be interested in if it gets some helpful replies: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/showthread.php?t=2399 .

--Ken
 
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brentj said:
Yeah, why do think I am here? I gave NX2 an honest good faith effort. It just does not work for event photographers or people who take more than one picture in a sitting.
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Shooting car racing and football (CAN) easily give me 4'' to 14'' images in a day. Before Lightroom's birth, I had to give up on RAW files and rapidly switched back to JPEG. Thanks to Lightroom, since the beginning of it I am an happy RAW only shooter! :D

And to stay more on topic, I add that I use the camera body' screen only with the RGBL histograms. The only time I look at the image appearing in the tiny space left on the display is to know if I framed the action. Are the colors more "accurate" taking my RAWs in Lightroom rather than the "in camera baked" JPEGs? NO! Each RAW processor program have its own way of giving you a starting point and one's job is to find a preset that mostly fit what he/she likes.

I JUST DO NOT WANT ACCURATE COLORS on my images! And we just do not have the technology to do so. Otherwise, looking at an image of the sunset on my monitor would burn my eyes forever; Not talking about finding a paper (and inks) that can handle 6'''°K without putting my house on fire! :shock:

Getting "accurate" colors mean reproducing the same scene that your eyes (brain) saw naturally. HDR? Our brains do that in real time without shrinking the color gamut or bit depth...

We are then stuck at finding the best interpretation that a screen or print can achieve to remember a scene. Funny note here: A friend of mine back from a trip to the other side of the planet came back to me with a "souvenir" from his trip. Looking at it: "Strange!" I said, "This do not remember me anything!". :roll:

So why do we buy prints (or paintings) made by others when we were not there to see the original or model or the artist's vision? Because they make our brain remember something like an emotion or a feeling. They may provoke new ones but the fact is that they are talking to us.

Working on our images, this is the goal we should attempt to reach. Not getting so called "accurate colors".

So, what are RIGHT or WRONG colors? By chance I am not Daltonian... ;)


Respectfully to all posters and... Nikon's engineers,
 
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Denis Pagé said:
No Ken, never tryed it. Was just an easy joke I couldn't resist given the topic of right/wrong colors... ;)
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Denis,

Velvia was known for highly saturated colors, and green was often the most over-saturated of the highly saturated colors. "Who cares about details! Did you see how vibrant the colors were in that slide?" :shock::shock::shock:

--Ken
 
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... and green was often the most over-saturated of the highly saturated colors.
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So these are all blue right?
:cheesy::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::cheesy:

P.S.: I do not like being off topic and won't add more on this...
 
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Denis Pagé said:
Getting "accurate" colors mean reproducing the same scene that your eyes (brain) saw naturally. HDR? Our brains do that in real time without shrinking the color gamut or bit depth...

We are then stuck at finding the best interpretation that a screen or print can achieve to remember a scene. Funny note here: A friend of mine back from a trip to the other side of the planet came back to me with a "souvenir" from his trip. Looking at it: "Strange!" I said, "This do not remember me anything!". :roll:

So why do we buy prints (or paintings) made by others when we were not there to see the original or model or the artist's vision? Because they make our brain remember something like an emotion or a feeling. They may provoke new ones but the fact is that they are talking to us.

Working on our images, this is the goal we should attempt to reach. Not getting so called "accurate colors".

So, what are RIGHT or WRONG colors? By chance I am not Daltonian... ;)


Respectfully to all posters and... Nikon's engineers,
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While I would agree with your sentiments, there are many ways to get LR to produce a variety of pleasng results. I was hoping that others would share some of their preset "recipes" to help us learn how to make LR give us our desired results, accurate or otherwise.

(Moderators, if there is enough interest, could a sticky thread or perhaps a topic be created where we can share presets?)

--Ken
 
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Sean McCormack said:
Try a whole website: http://inside-lightroom.com
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Thanks for the link, Sean. I have seen the presets listed there, but most are more styled than what I was looking for. As I do not want to get off topic again, I'll try to elaborate on what I am looking for on the other thread that I referenced above.

Thanks,

--Ken
 
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Denis Pagé said:
Also there is the new Nikon D7'' to be supported before version 2.' ships. Expect a 1.4.2 in between...
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That is what triggered me.
I do hope Adobe will be updating the 1 series for a reasonable time, since the 2 is a paid upgrade. I will try it fore sure, but there mey be users that won't.
 
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If history has anything to offer us it is that once Lightroom 2 comes out v1 won't be updated. But I suppose that does leave a small window.

You won't lose the option of editing 'unsupported' file formats in v1.4.1, as you can use the DNG converter, when it is updated to support future cameras, to convert the NEFs etc to DNG.
 
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brentj said:
Yeah, why do think I am here? I gave NX2 an honest good faith effort. It just does not work for event photographers or people who take more than one picture in a sitting.
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IF I HAVE to switch it would be LR for sorting, cataloging, metadata and NX2 for other tasks.
Too bad it will be two different prgms.
 
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