[Leica] Opinions on flash gallery with Thumbnail views

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Daniel

It's true this gallery is less made for the small minority of advanced 
photographers (who crop and resize their pictures theirselves), but for the 
millions of P&S virtuosos out there. And for them it seems to be quite 
attractive as this gallery sells very well.

But expecting software developers to be deeply involved in the stuff they're 
making programs for, is DEFINITELY asking too much! You could apply this 
critic to almost any software. Developers are often off-reality with a 
strong technocratic view. Adding and overlaying new features is their aim, 
and not evaluating which features are useful and which not, and how to sort, 
apply and combine them in a logical manner. 

Almost any software I use suffers from radical overfeaturing and unlogical 
structuring of the menus. Not talking about the sometimes ridiculous 
translations of menus which show that the translators know even less about 
the stuff than the programmers. 

Could make a endless thread out of that but it's too OT.

Didier


>Richard, anyone demonstrating (not you of course) a system that 
>automatically (mechanically) crops images and expects such a demonstration 
>to be useful ... is not really involved in the imaging process and the 
>software probably reflects that.
>
>Daniel