Photographs, Photographers and Photography

Hard to believe, really.
I confess that the two words in the title of this piece are ones I would never have seen writing together. To me processing is simply a mechanical step that stands between the snap and its realization. A necessary if boring interlude which should be made as fast and automated […]

Anti-aberration software.
I have been going on for quite a while now about how correction of camera aberrations (rotten lenses, flaky sensors, poor manufacturing quality control) will increasingly migrate to software fixes, away from the far costlier hardware redesign route.
DxO has been making aftermarket software - meaning you run it on your computer not in your […]

Beta testing is the way to go.
Adobe has just released Lightroom 2.0 Beta allowing all and sundry to bang away at it in a sort of group grope-wiki software development approach which I can only applaud.

Why?
Well look at the catastrophe that resulted when they decided to go it alone. Alternatively, compare this to arrogant […]

Did they get anything right in 2.0?
Here, courtesy of Apple’s Software Update utiity, are the ‘enhancements’ (in geek that means ‘bug fixes’) to Aperture 2.1.

With so many mistake corrections, you have to wonder what else is lurking out there. And no mention of whether they have fixed the main Aperture problems - the fact […]

The masters of design bring you one of the worst!
Now and then I get abusive emails from people tired of my Microsoft bashing. Well, given that the Beast of Redmond has probably significantly shortened my life expectancy, I’m entitled. So I respond in like manner. But first, to cheer up, I watch […]

Adobe is on target.
No sooner had Adobe issued the updated version 1.4 of Lightroom with enhanced processing controls and support for more cameras, than they had to pull it.

Hence Dr. Pindelski’s Rule #1 of software upgrades: Don’t upgrade until others have done the user acceptance testing for you. Anyone who rushed into Apple’s […]