asnow
10-31-2017, 12:01 PM
I am interested in others opinion with Adobe's direction with the new Lightroom CC.
It is my understanding that all photos in the library are stored on the web and you do not have the option of storing them locally. This may work if you have all jpeg's but what about if you shoot in raw with large megapixel cameras that have huge raw files.
1. What do you do if your photo library is terabytes of data.
2. What happens if you do not have a high bandwidth and high limit internet link.
3. What if you do a large shoot such as maybe 30GB or more of photos. My goodness, how long is it going to take to load those into the Lightroom library. Also it would appear to me that editing the photos would be slow if you have to download every picture into the program memory to edit it.
4. Apparently there is a new supposedly simplified (Dumbed down) interface. How good is this. Look at what Apple did to Final Cut Pro. They screwed the professional video people.
5. Of course they will charging for cloud storage (and you have no choice but to use Adobe's cloud) which means $$$$. No wonder they chose to go this route. Huge profits since they decided to go with the subscription model is not enough.
I know that for now they still have the Lightroom Classic CC (which is what I upgraded to) but that requires Adobe to maintain two different versions. How long will they be willing to to do that. Remember a few years ago they promised that you will always be able to buy a stand alone version and that has now gone by the wayside.
It looks like Adobe is going the route of Apple. The hell with the Professionals and simply only worry about the consumer market.
Just my 2 cents worth. Maybe its time to start looking at switching to one of Adobe's competitors of which there are now several options...such as Capture One Pro
It is my understanding that all photos in the library are stored on the web and you do not have the option of storing them locally. This may work if you have all jpeg's but what about if you shoot in raw with large megapixel cameras that have huge raw files.
1. What do you do if your photo library is terabytes of data.
2. What happens if you do not have a high bandwidth and high limit internet link.
3. What if you do a large shoot such as maybe 30GB or more of photos. My goodness, how long is it going to take to load those into the Lightroom library. Also it would appear to me that editing the photos would be slow if you have to download every picture into the program memory to edit it.
4. Apparently there is a new supposedly simplified (Dumbed down) interface. How good is this. Look at what Apple did to Final Cut Pro. They screwed the professional video people.
5. Of course they will charging for cloud storage (and you have no choice but to use Adobe's cloud) which means $$$$. No wonder they chose to go this route. Huge profits since they decided to go with the subscription model is not enough.
I know that for now they still have the Lightroom Classic CC (which is what I upgraded to) but that requires Adobe to maintain two different versions. How long will they be willing to to do that. Remember a few years ago they promised that you will always be able to buy a stand alone version and that has now gone by the wayside.
It looks like Adobe is going the route of Apple. The hell with the Professionals and simply only worry about the consumer market.
Just my 2 cents worth. Maybe its time to start looking at switching to one of Adobe's competitors of which there are now several options...such as Capture One Pro