We Need An Adobe Lightroom True Competitor Locked

Tuonov2 wrote:

BackToNature1 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 read only two posts in this tread with both replies basically saying you are the problem. I get some folks don't like for other to say anything negative about what they like an find every reason to disregard anyone's own experiences.

Personally, the more competition, the better. Personally, I really don't like how more companies are going to this yearly subscription thing. So I really don't see things getting all that better for software processing. Especially when others seem to not really push these companies to really improve what they produce.

Just recently, another software company combined all their programs like many others just so they can Charge More, with us mostly getting, less.

I don't like it either, my non photography professional software is going that way too, there's nothing we can do about it though so we just have to suck it up and price it in to our fixed costs.

On the other hand you would think if there's an obvious financially lucrative gap in the market waiting to be exploited there would be someone jumping right in. Seeing as there seems to be no queue of companies doing that I would have thought that that particular gap wasn't as lucrative as people seem to think...

The problem is the need for a pretty large front end investment to develop such a product. And, significantly lower pricing would require a much longer time for a developer to get a reasonable ROI (return on investment) and to make the development effort profitable. You would also be entering a market with some significant and well-established competition. People who are accustomed to using current software (C1, LR, etc.) will require good reasons to switch and again, attractive pricing and competitive features/capabilities. Those are not easy barriers to get past.

Bottom line: sounds great in theory. I suspect the reality is that finding a competitor with a product good enough to grab market share at an aggressive price, and do so profitably, might be a bit easier said than done.