Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, like you I have almost every negative I've ever shot and all the digital files, BUT digital is a bit different. For example, I use the camera to document the trip with sign posts, labels etc, which are purely for record. As for space, I'm on my 2nd terabyte: this is OK, but it does make for slow work. Till it can leave them embedded, I will keep the originals however Cheers --- photo@frozenlight.eu wrote: From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] LR question Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:47:38 +0200 LR 1 can do all the things you mention except the very last one. Also, I would strongly advise against converting your RAW files to JPG. It will make them essentially unusable for any further serious work. Disk space is dirt cheap these days. What you are thinking of doing amounts to having drugstore prints made, and then throwing away the negatives. I know that you say you want to keep the best ones as RAW files, but the thing is, in 5 or 10 years you may consider a picture that today is a "loser" very important for whatever reason. I am discovering that right now, as I am in the final stages of copying all my film scans going back to the 90s onto a dedicated HD and importing them into LR. Just as I have every negative I shot since 1985 (when I took up photography in a serious way), I also have every RAW file I have shot since I went digital in 2004. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Aug 22, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Alastair Firkin wrote: > I don't think LR 1. will do this, but will the 2.0 upgrade? I want > to import all my images as RAW files. I want to sort them, label > them keyword and adjust them, then I want to delete the real > rejects, covert the good but not great to JPG and keep the keepers > as RAW, and I want to convert the original filed file from the RAW > to jpg to save space, not export and reimport with new time/date > problems > > Cheers > > Alastair > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information