Moose,
You have hit on what is my problem with LR, and to a degree Adobe, whom I think
has a thought in the back of their heads to push photographers from PS to LR
for some strange reason.
I have been using PS for many years. I have troubles with each new version as
they have a way of changing names for tools and moving menus and mixing them
up, but all in all I can make it do what I want. LR seems to me to be more like
Silky pix, written by non english speakers.
Anyway, I have always seen LR as an asset management program, which I don't
need. With digital, I don't shoot all that many more frames than I did with
film.In my 40 some years of shooting professionally, I developed a disipline
and ability ot make every shot count. Shooting a 'blad with only a 12 exp back
further honed that skill. So, I don't need a complex aset management program, I
have a precess that serves my purposes perfectly.
Maybe if I get one of those watch thingies, I'll reconsider.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 3:27:14 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] GPS wrist watches for tracking photo locations
On 12/29/2017 10:25 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> Aw crap, I must use LR?
I quite dislike LR as an image processor, and don't use it for that.
As a catalog, DAM, it's awfully good. With geocoded images, it becomes
seriously good. Until they added the Map Mode, I
never used it. Now I use it all the time. But then, I've been geocoding for
years, so when Maps became available (or I
became aware of it), I imported data from many thousands of my images into the
LR catalog, the majority with location data.
The ability to filter by metadata, on a large number of EXIF attributes, is
also something I use a lot. For example, I
can browse all the images I have from Brooklyn, or Trongsa, Bhutan, Glacier NP,
etc., regardless of when or what camera
- or only for particular camera(s) and/or lens(es). I can see in the browser
window only images taken with the 9-18
zoom, wherever, whenever, whatever camera. This is stuff that's a bitch any
other way I know of, and LR makes it a
breeze. As someone who does a lot of focus stacks involving 15 or 25 exposures
per actual "shot", it also allows me to
get a good estimate of how many actual shots I've taken.
I just asked it; my catalog has now has 54.989 images with GPS data and 54,780
without, as I eventually have loaded all
my digital camera images, going back a long way. Raw images only, it's 45,223
coded and 29,746 not.
As I considered it free with my subscription for PS, I'd say it's far the best
bargain software I have. :-) Humpf, guess
I'm really a fan; I'd be lost without it.
GeoSetter (free), in addition to being a good way to geocode from tracks, is a
viewer that will put a flag on a map when
you select an image. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much else useful as a
browser.
I suppose there may be another browser that has a map view available. I just
don't know what it is, if it is.
Unexpected Fan Moose
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