![]() Truth is, I can process to identical results in LR although sometimes the approach is a little different and I have had to bring myself back up to speed with LR processing. They just lost me as a loyal customer, that did every upgrade, for their lack of support for my 907x. I came from a Fuji and I was a Capture One user and I really wish I could continue with Capture One. There is no other easier, cleaner and quicker way to maintain, organize, search/find, process, import/export, print, keyword, web process, and store my files other than LR. Find a good set of tutorial videos and make friends with it as IMO it will be well worth the time and expense. If you want to learn LR, spend a solid month using it daily for at least an hour or two. Skipping around to various programs can be part of a learning process, but at a valuable cost of lost time and confusion IMO. Maybe because I taught LR and saw the repeated mistakes users encounter from lack of experience, I tend to feel LR users do not spend enough time learning a good workflow. I occasionally read on this forum where members experience problems with LR. I was an original beta tester for LR in its early days, and taught it in the classroom for years and find it quick and easy to use for all my camera file needs including digitizing film. I post process all my images in LR and Photoshop (PS) and use Phocus only for tethering when necessary, but I avoid using it because I learned a long time ago to keep things simple. My personal LR catalog is approaching 77k files, and I have a different catalog for commercial work stored on a seperate drive that I can easily call up and work on I find LR's cataloging system very versatile for my needs. 3FR files into Lightroom (LR) without issue. FFF? Maybe DNG via Adobe DNG Converter is the way to go (does it "know" about Hasselblad colour calibration?) Maybe I'm missing something with Phocus? Maybe there is another way to convert. FastRawViewer display previews which certainly seem to have X1D colour profiles baked in, and I don't know they could do that without embedded JPEGs.īut anyway, I'd be interested to hear about other strategies for managing X-System files. ![]() From what I've seen I have my doubts on that - not only PhotoSupreme, but others, e.g. In fact that's a side issue - Camera Bits Support insists that Hasselblad files do not include JPEG previews. 3FR files, which some others (especially Photo Mechanic) do not. Unlike other DAM applications (MediaPro RIP for example), it isn't fleet enough to make it fun to use, and so to play around and discover relationships between photos. PhotoSupreme in theory serves well as a central hub / DAM / Manager, but it is slow and has a horribly cryptic UI. Probably if I was using just the X1D it would be less of an issue, but I'm using several cameras and I want a common catalog. So, at the moment I'm using PhotoSupreme to import the FFFs and insert them into my catalog structure. I do further processing in Lightroom, but even Lightroom has some limitations (for me) on file ingestion. I can't understand how Pros live with this.Īt the moment I'm importing 3FRs in Phocus, saving the FFFs into a flat folder, from where I then import them into a managed structure. There is no way to dynamically set folders /sub-folders for ingestion, no series renaming tools. And Phocus seems to have no serious tools at all for file ingestion. The advantage of this is smaller file size, but then the only way to achieve ii is via Phocus. I'm interested in hearing how X-System owners handle file management, as the workflow has some peculiarities.įirst, there's the question of converting to FFF or not.
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