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GX8 v G6 long exposures at night

Started Dec 9, 2015 | Photos thread
OP xelnt Forum Member • Posts: 56
Re: GX8 v G6 long exposures at night

Impulses wrote:

You know you can still buy a standalone version of Lr right? For me buying LR PLUS Photoshop Elements is still cheaper than CC, since Lr isn't updated every year (so like $75 every ~2 for the upgrade version) and I only tend to grab every other version of PSE (usually on sale for like $80-100 for PSE + Premier Elements)...

That's like $160-170 every 2 years for LR + Photoshop/Premier Elements (or less depending on how much the Lr release schedule legs), vs what, like $240 every 2 years for just LR + Photoshop? I'm not opposed to CC on principle, but they'd have to sweeten the deal or kill their standalone software for it to appeal to me value wise.

Yeah I'm aware of the standalone version, however what has put me off that is the deliberate crippling of the standalone version by stripping out features that they are adding to the CC version. That said I probably don't really need new features - its not as if Elements is updated between major versions so it shouldn't bother me anyway!

I need to play with lightroom more - however if it is going to be so slow even opening folders across a network to open a file I'll be giving it a miss. It seems to open every RAW file in the folder (say 20 meg each) just to render the thumbnail - annoying.

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