We Need An Adobe Lightroom True Competitor Locked

rla1022 wrote:

Batdude wrote:

Who has the balls to come out with a much better RAW converter that truly competes with Adobe Lightroom Classic? We need one.

The only reason why I use LR is because of (it's workflow, that's it!) but as a Fujifilm shooter the files it produces are really poor. When I was using the Fujifilm S5 Pro no problem, but then after several years after upgrading to newer cameras you can definitely see the problem. Color tones, film simulations, sharpness and detail is simply not there and you have to spend a LOT more time messing around with this nonsense. Fujifilm is Fujifilm, not Sony, although I get the feeling that Sony RAW files are easier to manage now over Fujifilm, with Lightroom that is.

That's the first problem. The second problem is that for importing/exporting Lightroom is SUPER SLOW.

One of the comments I liked from the thread "Do You Want 40MP?" is that someone said that more megapixels is only going to get worse. And that's true. But, the hardware is not the only problem, is the software that will be the bottleneck and will slow things up drastically as MP keep increasing.

Sure, if you don't shoot over 1000 photos it should be fine, but over that forget it.

I hope someone comes out with better faster software than Adobe Lightroom with the same or even better workflow and I would be delighted to make the change.

I truly want to know. Why not just use the one you paid for in the camera? It weird to see so many say they want to replicate Fuji sims and such. Just use x transformer and your x series camera. Then you’ll match every time.

IMHO, that misses the workflow support provided by LR.

It's why I believe it would be fair to eliminate a lot of great tools that just process images, such as the bundled Fuji RAW or Silkypix - but also eliminates Neo, Nik, ON1, Skylum, Topaz, etc. Sure, if you have a handful of images to process and want to work on them one at a time, then tools as above can work fine.

But, for someone like a wedding photographer who wants to view, cull, index, then sort and process thousands of images? ... they would be severely handicapped using image processing tools that have no workflow systems. Your suggestion would not fit their needs.