{"id":23413,"date":"2013-06-11T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=23413"},"modified":"2013-06-11T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T18:28:34","slug":"23413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2013\/06\/11\/23413\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Worth the money.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>All the enhancements I set forth <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2013\/04\/16\/lightroom-5-beta\/ target=_blank>here<\/a> are in the final release, made yesterday.  The upgrade from earlier versions is $79 and easily worth the money, not least for the splendid keystone correction which is built-in.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/LR5.jpg\" width=\"424\" height=\"162\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Conversion of my catalog, some 10,000 mostly RAW files totaling 265GB with another 35GB of full size previews, took around 5 minutes and performance seems identical in all respects to Lightroom 4, meaning excellent.  The application opens in 5-7 seconds on my nuclear powered Hackintosh (Sandy Bridge i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, nVidia GTX660 GPU), and image-to-image changes are instantaneous.  Life-size previews really help here and I recommend you create those when importing files.  The penalty in terms of storage space is modest, with 13% additional space used in my case.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Rain.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"764\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Rain in Burlingame, CA.  A rare sight.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Photo taken on the iPhone 5, processed in Lightroom 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worth the money. All the enhancements I set forth here are in the final release, made yesterday. The upgrade from earlier versions is $79 and easily worth the money, not least for the splendid keystone correction which is built-in. Conversion of my catalog, some 10,000 mostly RAW files totaling 265GB with another 35GB of full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2013\/06\/11\/23413\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lightroom 5<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe-lightroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23413"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23421,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23413\/revisions\/23421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}