Thanks for that Bob. What I really don't understand though, is why Adobe have added 'bells and whistles' but not made fundamental improvements to the basic foundation of Lightroom/ACR. It's a raw file demosaicer and processor, and as such the two cornerstones are demosaicing and input sharpening. Everything else, including the new profiles, is/are meaningless if the foundations are shaky. And shaky they are. How old is the demosaicing algorithm, and why are we still limited to a choice of one algorithm? Why are we still limited to a single iteration deconvolution sharpening method, or unsharp masking with no distribution threshold? And why are we still not given a 32bit float conversion engine? Hell, we can RL decon sharpening, a 32bit float conversion engine, and a 4 point fully adjustable USM distribution threshold - with separate fully adjustable halo suppression - in a FREE raw converter! Adobe remind me of IBM - 'we're too big in the market to fail'. RT, Iridient and C1 are far superior at raw conversion than Lr/ACR. Yes, Lr is still king when it comes to DAM, Soft Proof and Print, but the raw conversion HAS TO come first.
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