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Posted by JJ
Dec 9, 2008 at 02:32 PM
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>Ken, It was supposed to arrive yesterday. Now it’s supposed to be here tomorrow—Tue.
>My sole purpose of buying this thing is to use IDImager &/or Lightroom on the road. I’m
>scheduled to leave on a trip Wed +/- noon EST so if it doesn’t arrive Tue, you probably
>won’t get a report from me until the following Tue (back next Mon). I’m keeping my
>fingers crossed.
Jan,
I use Lightroom on my desktop & my OC quad, 4gb, 10k rpm HD is barely enough for Lightroom.
Lightroom will bring your NC10 to it’s knees. Instead, I would suggest Bibble… it is lighter, faster and better than Lightroom.
Plus they will be releasing version 5.0 (by Jan 1) which looks awesome (checkout their video)
-jj
Posted by Ken
Dec 9, 2008 at 04:09 PM
Jan,
I hate to drift further OT, but I like using ImageIngester as a front-end to Lightroom. If you are just renaming, adding meta-data, backing up files and/or converting them to DNG, Image Ingester works quite well with Adobe’s stand alone DNG converter. I also like to keep a copy of FastStone Image Viewer on all drives and machines as it is quite a handy tool for quick browsing. They do not replace LR, but they also do not impact its work flow as they do their jobs. They are good photo tools for slower machines.
—Ken
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Dec 9, 2008 at 06:35 PM
Ken & JJ, Thanks for comments. Rcvd NC10 few hrs ago, set it up & that’s as far as I’ve gotten. The keyboard is fantastic tho. I think given your combined comments, maybe I should re-think LR2. I am not going to load this machine up w lots of stuff. Basically, email, prelim photo culling/viewing & UltraRecall (even tho they booted me off their forum). I will probably increase RAM, don’t know whether I’ll spring for outboard CD/DVD as it’s just more stuff. I’m still trying to figure out where the built in card reader is…. or is it optional? Anyway, I’m sorta impressed but then I haven’t really gotten down to using the little fellow yet but for $400 bucks how bad an investment can it be? I’ll let you know more next week.
Posted by JJ
Dec 9, 2008 at 09:00 PM
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>Ken & JJ, Thanks for comments. Rcvd NC10 few hrs ago, set it up & that’s as far as I’ve
>gotten. The keyboard is fantastic tho. I think given your combined comments, maybe I
>should re-think LR2. I am not going to load this machine up w lots of stuff. Basically,
>email, prelim photo culling/viewing & UltraRecall (even tho they booted me off their
>forum). I will probably increase RAM, don’t know whether I’ll spring for outboard
>CD/DVD as it’s just more stuff. I’m still trying to figure out where the built in card
>reader is…. or is it optional? Anyway, I’m sorta impressed but then I haven’t really
>gotten down to using the little fellow yet but for $400 bucks how bad an investment can
>it be? I’ll let you know more next week.
Jan,
I highly suggest trying out Bibble… download the trail version and install it on the NC10… I find Bibble works quite well on the NC10. (In fact I have dumped LR2 on my desktop & use Bibble on both machines)
Version 5 is suppose to be awesome… (will ship by Jan 1). Checkout these demos
http://bibblelabs.com/products/bibble5/videos.html
Also, FastSone Viewer is a great viewer… Works great on the NC10
Enjoy!
Posted by Chris Thompson
Dec 10, 2008 at 02:31 AM
While we’re talking about photo workflow tools, I suggest taking a look at LightZone:
http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/index.html
It’s one of my favorite applications of all time… much more intuitive for editing photos than Photoshop, which I never use any more. It reminds me a lot of working in a traditional darkroom. The drawback is their photo management features are a little weak, so I prefer to use Lightroom for basic workflow and then LightZone for editing. As a bonus it’s cross-platform (and there’s even a Linux version if you hunt around, though they don’t publicize it).
—Chris