> On Jul 18, 2023, at 9:08 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Am 18.07.23 um 17:02 schrieb Bill:
>
>> I'd like a Maserati, but I can't afford it. Does this give me the right
>> to steal one?
>
> Certainly not. But after you've legally bought one and paid the full
> price, they won't take it away from you if you don't keep paying year
> after year. Besides, an acquaintance of mine had one. That thing spent
> more time at the garage than on the road.
The parallel runs a bit deeper, with most new cars you have the option of
either buying it, or leasing it. Nominally leasing is a bit less expensive per
month than purchasing, but at the end of the term, they get the car back. If
you are someone who buys a new car every five years, leasing can be a good deal
to always have a new car. I'd like to have the option to decide whether to buy
a permanent license or do the lease/ransomware if I choose.
>
> I have paid for Lightroom since their early days and when they pulled
> the plug on LR6 I've changed to ON1. Although they also lure me into
> buying yearly upgrades I don't have to if I don't want to and can still
> go on using it.
I used LR6 until I got trapped in the upgrade cycle of needing to upgrade to a
version of MacOS that LR6 didn't run on. I have since moved on to the
ransomware version of LR.
On the upside, they have made some significant upgrades since LR6. As I
remember, there was a period where it seemed that all of their innovations on
LR went into moving to ransomware, and possibly some stuff for phones that is
completely useless to me, and it didn't get any significantly better features.
The main reason that I stuck with LR was laziness about changing to something
new, and not being able to find something that worked significantly better for
me.
>
> That said, I'm happier with ON1, the noise filter runs circles around LR
> and my photos look better.
That's good to know, I tried ON1 a few years back and it didn't really work for
me.
I tried to use their feature to import files from Lightroom and it just could
not handle libraries of any size. Also, I was doing a lot of panorama
stitching at the time, and it didn't work as well as LR for that.
I'm also interested in Darktable, which has the big advantage that it will also
run on Linux.
But, in the meantime, I just don't have the time or emotional energy to
research a replacement.
Lately, I've barely had the time to take photos, or process the ones that I
have taken.
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